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UGO MATTEI & MATHIAS REIMANN For a number of years, we have been increasingly concerned about th e teaching and scholarship of comparative law in the United States. In particular, we have sensed a lack of methodological reflec tion and theoretical foundation. We have therefore decided to take a fresh look at this time-honored discipline and encourage others to do so as well. I. Some readers of this Journal may view a symposium on "New Directions in Comparative Law" as a waste of time and effort. Com parative law, they will say, has been too self-conscious, too hung up on reflecting upon its own sense or nonsense all along. Wha t we need, so the argument will go, is "hard-nosed comparative work," not theo retical musings about goals, methods, and agendas. Theoria sine praxis, rota sine axis. There is much to be said for such a view. For a discipline to thrive, it must produce substantive work and useful results, not theo ries about itself. As the German legal philosopher Gustav Radbruch once observed, obsession with one's own well-being is a sign of sick ness in people as well as in scholarship. It is tempting therefore sim ply to
American Journal of Comparative Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 1, 1998
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