Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only
recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal …

Introduction It is customary at the end of a century to pause to take a long, hard look at what
lies ahead; and this time we are not just moving into a new century: we are at the threshold …

Community Page 1 Comparative Law in the New European Community By George A.
Bermann* I. Introduction As a member and leader of America's immediate post-war generation …

Arthur von Mehren, Story Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, has had a long,
productive, and distinguished career as both a scholar and practitioner of comparative law …

This book presents an original, deliberately controversial and, at times, disturbing appraisal
of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century: its weaknesses, its …

To avoid complexities: I claim that comparative law may sometimes feel like a Wonderland.
Obviously, this sort of claim calls for explanation-what kind of wonderland and in what …

Comparative law has come a long way in the United States since the American Association
for the Comparative Study of Law was founded in 1951 by a tiny band of law professors and …

In this paper I will argue that the fate of comparative law will be determined by its ability to
function as a connecting field between law and other social sciences. I will further argue that …

Comparative law is a thriving area in the study of the law which has attracted, in the last
decades, a growing interest in legal scholarship and legal education. The expanding …

Comparative Law is experiencing something of a renaissance, as legal scholars and
practitioners traditionally outside the discipline find it newly relevant in projects such as …