Notes by Franz Werro
I was having dinner a couple of years ago with Laura Nader, and she asked me in her penetrating kind of way: “So Franz, what are the big questions that comparative law is facing today? What are the problems comparativists ought to solve?” The answers were not obvious, as they never are, especially when Professor Nader is asking the questions. I gradually came to think that there was perhaps not one single answer to these questions, or rather, that the answer depended to some extent on where one does comparative law. In Part I of this very short presentation, I want first to tackle the diversity of the agenda for comparitivists. Then, in Part II, I will ask whether in a globalized world there is nonetheless a need for common objectives.
About the Author
Franz Werro. Professor of Law, University of Fribourg (Switzerland); Part-Time Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Citation
75 Tul. L. Rev. 1225 (2001)