International records / OpenAlex research

The Administration of Criminal Justice in the United States and the Federal Republic of Nigeria: A Comparison

The initial point of inquiry into any legal system entails the designation of that system as having either a civil law tradition, a common law tradition or a socialist law tradition.A nation which embraces the civil law tradition-the most dominant legal tradition-reflects the complex origins and varied developments of Ancient Roman civil law, canon law, commercial law, European revolutions and the concept of legal science.'The common law tradition originated approximately in 1066 A.D. as a result of the Norman Conquest of Britain, 2 while the socialist law tradition is generally assumed to hav…