European lawyers tend to have a hard time with United States Law at first. Too different are “both” systems, it seems. But is the Anglo-American legal order really that different?

The fifth main episode of Maastricht Law Talk leaves the European continent for a while: It covers the United States legal system. From a federal judge being able to block the president’s executive orders to the harmonisation process of law.

Larry Catá Backer is Professor of Law and International Affairs at Penn State University. He is an expert on corporate, enterprise, and constitutional law and is currently working on his new book on an “Introduction to U.S. Law”. You can find his work and latest research on his website Backer in Law or on his blog Law at the End of the Day.

If you haven’t yet listened to our episode on constitutions, you might want to do that first. Click here to listen to the episode.

Larry and I talk about

• the federal structure,


• common law as a concept,


• “codification”,


• harmonisation of law,


• the appointment and election of judges,


• popular democracy and democratic deficits,


• the U.S. Supreme Court,


• federal and state powers,


• the presidential election,


• gerrymandering,


• executive orders,


• judicial review, and


• much more.

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