the legal systems of the world. It is the aim of this paper to fill this gap and to develop a more robust taxonomy of … analysis. Applying cluster optimisation, this paper finds that the world's legal systems can be divided into four clusters. It … implications, not only for our understanding of the legal world, but also for the feasibility of legal transplants and …

transfer. Given the difficult classification of this new “entity”, the author suggests considering it more as a network, where …

countries. In our case, relating the Economic Freedom of the World index and its five areas to V-Dem's index of academic freedom …

around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly correlated with another set of potentially … world. We attempt to disentangle these factors by exploiting the imperfect overlap of colonizer and legal origin, and …