Globalization is narrowing the common-law and civil-law divide.

Evidence

This is a dialectical process because such local happenings may move in an obverse direction from the very distanciated relations that shape them. Local transformation is as much a part of globalisation as the lateral extension of social connections across time and space. … The increasing prosperity of an urban area in Singapore might be causally related, via a complicated network of global economic ties, to the impoverishment of a neighbourhood in Pittsburgh whose local products are uncompetitive in world markets. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Because of the political fragmentation in Europe, rulers were rarely in a position to impose much law on anyone. In addition, societal changes had rendered parts of the Roman law obsolete—for example, those sections dealing with slavery. Other elements of the Roman law—for example, family law—were already dealt with by the Canon law established by the Catholic Church. As a result, the law that came to prevail in Europe also reflected local, non-Roman sources. Nevertheless, jurists and practitioners alike drew their conceptions of law, as well as their legal terminology and their approach to legal reasoning, from the tradition of Roman law. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 130 (#qualifies-own, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European rulers could not impose Roman law wholesale on fragmented polities. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 130; Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167

Related

• European rulers could not impose Roman law wholesale on fragmented polities. (similarity 0.81)
• Globalization is a hegemonic process of conforming difference, not erasing it. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change #qualifies (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167