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Environmental protection also serves to penalise polluters within domestic legal systems. Admiralty law and the sea law lay a basic framework for free trade and commerce across the world’s oceans and seas, where outside of a country’s zone of control. Shipping companies operate through ordinary principles of commercial law, generalised for a global market. Admiralty law also encompasses specialised issues such as salvage, maritime liens, and injuries to passengers.

• Jurimetrics is the formal application of quantitative methods, especially probability and statistics, to legal questions.
• The Law Merchant, a precursor to modern commercial law, emphasised the freedom to contract and alienability of property.
• Common law systems are shaded pink, and civil law systems are shaded blue/turquoise.
• Each case was to be decided afresh from the laws of the State, which mirrors the unimportance of judges’ decisions for future cases in civil law systems today.
• A look at the