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The Politics of Private Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Section 2 . 5

Class 5: Thursday 2/13 - How Different Are the Systems in Practice?

Prof. Duncan Kennedy

Reading(s): Rodolfo Sacco, Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law, 39 Am. J. Comp. L. 1 (1991), pages 21-34. Mitchel Lasser, Judicial (Self-) Portraits: Judicial Discourse in the French Legal System, 104 Yale L. J. 1325 (1995), pages 1325-29, 1381-1402. John Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition (3d ed. 2007).

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