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II. Characteristics of American Legal Educationa.
二、美國(guó)法律教育的特征
a.The basis of legal education in America is the common law.
(1)美國(guó)法律教育的基礎(chǔ)是普通法。
The principal distinction between common law and civil law is that the former relies on the English principle of the binding force of precedent.
而普通法系與民法法系之間最主要的區(qū)別是，前者所依賴的是先例具有束約力這一英國(guó)法原則。
Thus, a case decided by a court today must be consistent with similar cases previously decided, even if the case is very old.
因而，今天法院對(duì)案件所做的判決必須同以前對(duì)類似案件的判決相一致，即使此案件已經(jīng)非常古老。
The key concept is that the reasoning by the judges in prior cases must be applied to today's cases so that the law is predictable.
其主要理念是法官在以前案件所作的推理必須適用于現(xiàn)在的案件，因此使法律具有可預(yù)測(cè)性。
Yet the common law is flexible since judges can use prior legal reasoning to reach different but equitable outcomes in similar cases.
然而，普通法依然是非常靈活的，因?yàn)榉ü倌軌蜻\(yùn)用以前的法律推理在類似的案件中得出不同但不失公平的結(jié)果。
