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Why Are U.S. Lawyers Not Learning from Comparative Law?
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  • Ernst C. Stiefel, New York Law School
  • James Maxeiner, University of Baltimore School of Law
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Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Abstract

Address the problem of comparative law in the United States. Explains why comparative law matters. Gives reasons why U.S. lawyers are not learning from comparative law. These include lack of skills, lack of institutional supports, and legal structures that resist comparative law and an attitude that comparative law has little to teach.

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Why Are U.S. Lawyers Not Learning from Comparative Law?, in The International Practice of Law: Liber Amicorum for Thomas Bär and Robert Karrer (Nedin Peter Vogt, et al., eds., 1997)