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Universalist Assumptions and Implications of Comparative Law: Should They be Deconstructed?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 Rothacker, Erich, Die vergleichende Methode in den Geisteswissenschaften, 60 Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 13 (1957)Google Scholar, at 15. Translation by author. Emphasis added.

2 Saleilles, Raymond, Conception et objet de la science juridique du droit comparé, in Procés Verbaux et Documents Du Congrès International De Droit Comparé (Paris 1900)Google Scholar. 2 vols. (1905-1907), Vol. I, p. 167, at 173.

3 Zwigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein, Introduction to Comparative Law—The Framework, p. 34 (Weir, Tony, trans. Clarendon Press, Oxford 3d ed. 1998)Google Scholar (1969). Emphasis added.

4 Karl R. Popper, The Myth of the Framework, in Id., The Myth of the Framework: in Defence of Science and Rationality p. 33 at 60-61 (1994).