Furthermore, after negotiations lasting fifteen years, in 2001 China joined the World Trade Organization. Roman law was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy, but its detailed rules were developed by professional jurists and were highly sophisticated. In medieval England, royal courts developed a body of precedent which later became the common law. A Europe-wide Law Merchant was formed so that merchants could trade with common standards of practice rather than with the many splintered facets of local laws. The Law Merchant, a precursor to modern commercial law, emphasised the freedom to contract and alienability of property.
- Another example is in the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which tested a defence of “necessity”.
- In India, the Hindu legal tradition, along with Islamic law, were both supplanted by common law when India became part of the British Empire.
- For instance, the Quran has some law, and it acts as