Not a lawyer, but counter-intuitively I think it ends up working the other way around. Because in civil law the law itself reigns supreme and can't be "fixed" i

Not a lawyer, but counter-intuitively I think it ends up working the other way around. Because in civil law the law itself reigns supreme and can't be "fixed" in the courts, the law must be error-free, which is why you'd generally want to write it in a vague way with room for interpretation. In common law, interpretation is equal to the letter, so lawmakers can afford to be specific without breaking stuff.