Twenty-five years have elapsed since the late Sir Otto Kahn-Freund delivered his inaugural
lecture in the University of Oxford on'Comparative Law as an Academic Subject'.'In 1973 he …

Following the 1900 congress in Paris, the beginning of the 20th century saw comparative
law emerge as a significant discipline.'This article suggests that the early 21st century is …

THE years since the end of the Second World War have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of
interest and activity in comparative law. A cursory reading of the calendars and …

IT is my privilege and my pleasure to give today the second of these Annual Lectures
delivered in honour of Lord Chorley. I do not think it was ever contemplated that they should …

Zweigert and K6tz's An Introduction to Comparative Law, an English translation of which was
published in 1977, has been described as' indisputably one of the masterpieces of …

The following Article attempts to describe and defend a new approach to the study of foreign
law. The core idea is easy to state, although surprisingly difficult to carry out; we shall find …

Looking at comparative law in the broader context of other disciplines helps us to
understand the field mainly for two reasons: distinguishing it from other disciplines shows …

This article will propose that comparative law as a discipline should now consolidate itself as
an independent subject with its own internal structure. This is not to say that its teachers and …

Comparative law was established as a course in its own right in the decades after World War
П by the immigrant generation of European scholars. This was an important accomplishment …

Comparative Law Page 1 1 Ralf Michaels forthcoming in, Oxford Handbook of European Private
Law (Basedow, Hopt, Zimmermann eds., Oxford University Press) Comparative Law 1. Term and …