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"Civilizing" Nonjury Trials, F. R. Lacy

Vanderbilt Law Review

This article is intended to make people think about American procedure, yet it is devoted largely to a description of Austrian and Israeli civil procedure and perhaps that calls for some disclaiming and confessing and avoiding. I have spent only a few months in the two countries and have no doubt that I am open to the charge, made against far more seasoned American comparatists, that I tend to look at foreign systems through American conceptual spectacles. By way of avoidance let me offer, first, the usual defense of the popularizer. There never will be many serious students of comparative …

Culture Patterns And Judicial Systems, Stuart S. Nagel

Vanderbilt Law Review

Comparative law, like comparative government in general,' has largely confined itself to unintegrated descriptions of European legal principles. Not only has comparative law traditionally been limited in its subject matter, but it also has rarely, if ever, made use of statistical techniques in accounting for the differences observed. It is the purpose of this paper to analyze statistically the relations between industrialism, democracy, and collectivism on the one hand and the judicial process on the other in ten different societies.

Book Reviews, Ferdinand F. Stone (Reviewer), Reginald Parker (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Governmental Liability By H. Street New York: Cambridge University Press, 1953. Pp. 221. $5.00.

reviewer: Ferdinand F. Stone

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Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline, Second Ed. By W. W. Buckland and Arnold D. McNair. Revised by F. H. Lawson New York: Cambridge University Press, 1952.Pp. xii, 439. $7.00.

reviewer: Reginald Parker