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Martinico on Comparative Law & European Integration

By Lawrence Solum

Giuseppe Martinico (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) has posted Comparative Legal Studies and European Integration: Looking at the Origins of the Debate (Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, No.122, pp. 859-883, May-August 2008) on SSRN. Here is abstract:

The goal of this paper is to analyse the influence of the American comparative lawyers' studies on the language of the European integration.

As recent research in the legal field has demonstrated, European studies "should pay more attention to the legal discourse that sustains the conceptions of law and legal politics underlying European law". In the writing of Europe, in fact, a very important role was played by legal scholars, especially by the American ones, who contributed in providing a common vocabulary to the language of the European integration.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).