Law Practice
Jan. 11, 2022
How does the US legal system rank internationally?
While the United States performs strongly in certain areas, it falls behind in the civil justice and criminal justice categories.
Merete Rietveld
Senior Counsel
Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley PC
Phone: (213) 542-5700
Email: mrietveld@chwlaw.us
Every year, the World Justice Project publishes a ranking of 139 countries' legal systems.
In California, judges and prosecutors are known to herald our legal system as the best in the world. However, a look at the data on how we measure up across the world shows a more complicated picture.
The WJP surveys thousands of legal experts and practitioners, and over 100,000 household surveys each year to rank countries...
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