THE LONELINESS OF THE COMPARATIVE LAWYER 1
PART Ⅰ CIVIL LAW AND COMMON LAW 13
1. On the Convergence （and Divergence） of the Civil Law and the Common Law 17
2. Legal Education There and Here: A Comparison 53
3. The Public Law - Private Law Distinction in European and United States Law 76
4. How Others Do it: The French and German Judiciaries 96
5. Judicial Responsibility in the United States 110
6. The French Deviation 160
PART Ⅱ ITALIAN LAW 173
7. The Italian Style Ⅰ: Doctrine 177
8. The Italian Style Ⅱ: Law 215
9. The Italian Style Ⅲ: Interpretation 271
10. When Courts Collide: Constitution and Cassation in Italy 310
PART Ⅲ PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE 335
11. Ownership and Estate: Variations on a Theme by Lawson 338
12. Toward a Comparative Study of the Sale of Land 372
13. The Inter Vivos Transfer of Land 395
14. Policy, Autonomy, and the Numerus Clausus in Italian and American Property Law 420
PART Ⅳ WHAT DO COMPARATIVE LAWYERS DO? 431
15. Comparative Law and Social Change: On the Origins, Style, Decline and Revival of the Law and Development Movement 435
16. Comparative Law and Scientific Explanation 478
17. Population, Civil Litigation and Legal Science 504
18. Foreign Law as a Problem 518