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> everyone expects everything to be spelled out for them Strictly speaking, that's how civil law works, spelling out explicitly the statutes. By contrast, com
by gradientsrneat 1y ago
> everyone expects everything to be spelled out for them
Strictly speaking, that's how civil law works, spelling out explicitly the statutes.
By contrast, common law statutes can be (but are not always), more concise but more vague, putting greater emphasis on the courts to interpret them.
That is one reason USA is more litigious, but it probably isn't the only reason. After all, Germany has the infamous legal bounty hunters (one of the words may be "Abmahnanwälte" but I think there's a different one), and Germany is a civil law country, so USA being common law can't fully explain it.
- isodev 1y agoMy point was that the approach is not effectual when the guilty party is a corporation with near infinite resources. Take Apple for example, it takes years just to complete a single “unlawful termination” suit, and it would be … decades before the world can equalise the damage from their App Store practices. And all while this is going on, corps are pouring huge amount of money into lobbying so by the end they nerf or even reverse the very policy that keeps them accountable.