The Loneliness of the Comparative Lawyer and Other Essays in Foreign and Comparative Law

📖 The Scoop

In these critical essays a leading comparative lawyer:

• examines the movement for convergence of the Civil Law and the Common Law
• describes the Italian Style and the French Deviation
• contrasts Common Law estate with Civil Law ownership
• explains why the distinction between public law and private law is important to Civil Lawyers but has little interest for Common Lawyers
• exposes the fatal emptiness at the core of the Law and Development movement
• proposes a marriage of comparative law and scientific explanation
• emphasizes the fundamental relation between law and social and cultural change
• argues that the dominant tradition of comparative law teaching and scholarship is trapped in a cramped and arid 19th century paradigm
• advocates a culturally broader and historically richer approach to comparative law teaching and scholarship

Genre: Law / International (fancy, right?)