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The Transformation Of Europe In Us Legal Academia And Its Legacy In The Field Of Private Law, Daniela Caruso
The Transformation Of Europe In Us Legal Academia And Its Legacy In The Field Of Private Law, Daniela Caruso
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The rise of EU law in US legal scholarship – from international lawyers' pet project to new fuel for comparative constitutional scholarship, and then on to self-contained subject matter with an independent raison d'être – is closely tied to the professional itinerary of Joseph Weiler. Under the auspices of Eric Stein and Peter Hay, EEC law developed as a discipline at the University of Michigan, and the collaboration between US legal academia and the European University Institute (EUI) grew in quality and intensity. The year 1984 saw the birth of a massive research project sponsored by the EUI and the …