Editing Comparative law (section)

===David===
[[René David]]<ref>''Traité élémentaire de droit civil comparé : Introduction à l'étude des droits étrangers et à la méthode comparative'' - in French; Paris, 1950</ref> proposed the classification of legal systems, according to the different ideology inspiring each one, into five groups or families:<ref name="VARGA-p54-DAVID">{{cite book |last=Varga |first=Csaba |date=2012 |title=COMPARATIVE LEGAL CULTURES |url=https://philarchive.org/archive/VARCLC |location=Budapest |publisher= |pages=54–55 |isbn=9789632773377}}</ref>
* [[Western world|Western]] laws, a group subdivided into the:
** [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil law subgroup]] (whose jurisprudence is based on post-classical [[Roman Law]])
** [[Common law|Common law subgroup]] (originating in [[English law]])
* [[Law of the Soviet Union|Soviet Law]]
* [[Sharia|Muslim Law]]
* [[Hindu law|Hindu Law]]
* [[Chinese law|Chinese Law]]
* [[Jewish Law]]

Especially with respect to the aggregating by David of the Civil and Common laws into a single family, David argued that the antithesis between the Common law and Civil law systems, is of a technical rather than of an ideological nature. Of a different kind is, for instance, the antithesis between, say, Italian and American laws, and of a different kind than between the Soviet, Muslim, Hindu, or Chinese laws. According to David, the Civil law legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman law, whereas Common law countries are those dominated by judge-made law. The characteristics that he believed uniquely differentiate the Western legal family from the other four are:
* liberal democracy
* capitalist economy
* Christian religion