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The Importance of Common Law
Friedrich Hayek considered common law superior to statutory law. He believed that law was largely a thing to be discovered through investigation and the application of reason, not constructed in the air of abstraction. The benefit of judge made law historically is that it was generated over time by specific cases involving flesh and blood plaintiffs and defendants who are trying to work out real world problems.