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By contrast, the classic civil law approach to property, propounded by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, is that it is a right good against the world. Obligations, like contracts and torts, are conceptualised as rights good between individuals. The idea of property raises many further philosophical and political issues.

• For international aspects of law, see international law; and United Nations.
• A similar tendency to seek definitions which are distinct from those used in other areas of social policy can be found in anti-discrimination law.
• Increasing numbers of businesses opt for commercial arbitration under the New York Convention 1958.

Saudi Arabia recognises Quran as its constitution, and is governed on the basis of Islamic law. Iran has also witnessed a reiteration of Islamic law into its legal system after 1979. During …