A friend of mine went to Tulane law school, and he told me that the university has two different requirements for students who want to practice law in Louisiana and who want to work elsewhere in the USA.
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Civil law versus common law.
With civil law, everything is codified. There is no judge made law. In common law systems, judges make law and that law is binding.
Canada is the same way. Quebec uses a civil law system (codified) and the rest of Canada is common law (judge made law).
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