February 05, 2006
Dubai: part of the country will no longer be subject to Dubai law, but English Common Law
Article here in the Telegraph.
Interesting, interesting development. The Common Law meme is spreading--third world dictators are now realizing how important it is.
This is also an interesting test of various propositions: Can a jurisdiction just declare itself to have the common law? (I don't know of a case where that has happened before--can you?). What will happen when people there start doing things that the Sheik disapproves of? How will multiple, deeply contradictory, legal systems coexist? That has been done before (think of Louisiana vs. the rest of the US; or Quebec vs. the rest of Canadia) but the Napoleonic and Common Law systems, although philosophically different, are in practice very close compared to the arbitrary dictatorial methods of Sheikdom.
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