Association of American Law Schools
2001 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001
San Francisco, California
Friday, January 5, 2001
4:00–5:45 p.m.

Continental Parlor 1
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level

Section on Comparative Law
William Bragg Ewald, University of Pennsylvania, Chair

Legal History in Comparative Law

Moderator:

William Bragg Ewald, University of Pennsylvania

Speakers:
James Russell Gordley, University of California at Berkeley
Alan Watson, University of Georgia
James Q. Whitman, Yale Law School

Recent scholarship in comparative law has turned increasingly to history for illumination of various modern legal systems. The panelists—three scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern legal history—will discuss concrete ways in which European law has been shaped by its past.

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