Modern criteria of typology of legal systems

Abstract

This article deals with two modern typology criteria of legal systems, which have been widely recognized in the Western academic literature – the criterion of style and the criterion of law as a means of social organization. The Zweigert-Kötz taxonomy came to serve as the basis for the empirical literature that sought to establish the economic consequences of legal institutions. And the taxonomy proposed by Ugo Mattei tries to be impartial, without prejudicing states that have a different understanding of law, different from the Western tradition. The authors finally highlight the type of civil law, the type of common law, the type of religious law and the type of philosophically inspired law.