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The Universal And The Particular In Legal Discourses, George P. Fletcher
The Universal And The Particular In Legal Discourses, George P. Fletcher
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My target in this article is a set of views that I shall call the functionalist perspective of comparative law. Of course, the word "functionalist" stands for a number of different theories. In order to be precise about the view that I oppose, I shall set my sights on the arguments developed in Otto Kahn-Freund's inaugural lecture Comparative Law as an Academic Subject, published two decades ago.