What is your assessment of the current civil law system Is reform necessary, or are critics overemphasizing those cases which appear on the surface to be frivolous? If you had the power to change the tort system, what changes, if any, would you make? Why?

Assessment of civil law system: Most European countries like Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Dutch follows the civil law system. Civil law systems foundation comes from a roman law. A written constitution based on specific codes and professional rules have significant role in court. Strict rules and regulation are adopted in civil law system. It's also called a codified and statutory law. But in English countries civil law is not followed. They developed their common law system in 12th century. Common law systems decisions...