The Common Law was a Norman innovation, wasn't it? Too bad, it would be really interesting to see if the idea of a secular judiciary spread to the rest of the Muslim world, since perhaps the secular and religious dichotomy that existed in England (what with the elected monarchy and the moots and jury trials and whatnot that are not prescribed in the bible) might have been preserved into the 'present'. I'm really interested in the economic, cultural and legal developments in Islamo-Saxon England, as well as the cultural developments (since i'm not as well-versed in the economic or legal systems around there) in Scandanavia, but I understand if you're caught up in the geopolitical story.