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Law Across Borders : What Can the United States Learn From Japan ?
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| Abstract | The question posed to the speakers on this panel is w hether the "West" can learn from the "Rest." As an outsider to the American Society of Comparative Law, and to the field of comparative law generally, I must confess that I am somewhat puzzled by that query . For one, I tend to think in categories that are far less inclusive or broad than "West" and "Rest." Although I research, write, and teach about the American legal system, which I assume is part of the category "West," I would never claim to have expertise on all aspects of that system. Nor do my learned law faculty colleagues generally make claims to expertise about the American legal system writ large. Instead, American legal academics are a community of specialists, and pretending to possess expert knowledge of more than a few subfields of American law appropriately invites ridicule. Further complicating the picture is the fact that my knowledge of other nations that are members of the Western legal tradition _ Italy, Germany, Spain, and n1any others is even more sketchy. And I am on even shakier ground when it comes to that amorphous category labeled "the Rest." How delighted I would be if I could claim expertise in the legal systen1 of Iran, or Pakistan, or Bhutan, or Cambodia, all of which I assume constitute the "Rest" rather than the "West." But sadly, those are places about which my legal knowledge is rather basic . In fact, the only non-Western nation about which I have any detailed knowledge is Japan, and, as it is with the U.s., my expertise is selective and incomplete. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/eafeldma/workingpapers/b32HastingsInternationalAndComparativeLR795(2009).pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
