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3 - Building Bridges between Legal Systems: The Life and Work of Arthur Taylor von Mehren

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2009

Eckart Gottschalk ,
Ralf Michaels ,
Giesela Ruhl  and
Jan von Hein
By
Michael von Hinden
Eckart Gottschalk
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School
Ralf Michaels
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Giesela Ruhl
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Germany
Jan von Hein
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Germany
Michael von Hinden
Affiliation:
Joseph Story Research Fellow 2000–2001 Civil Notary, Hamburg
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Summary

Whether we are dreaming of a world law or thinking of the further development of our own law, to suit it to the worldwide problem of the general security in the present and immediate future, the methods of the jurist must have a basis in comparison.

Roscoe Pound, Foreword toArthur T. von Mehren, The Civil Law System, Cases, and Materials for the Comparative Study of Law, at ⅶ, ⅷ (1957)

INTRODUCTION

When Arthur Taylor von Mehren died on January 16, 2006, the academic community lost a leading scholar of international and comparative law whose work influenced generations of lawyers throughout the world. In addition to educating thousands of law students in the course of a teaching career spanning nearly 60 years, von Mehren was one of the few scholars with a truly global reputation.

The best evidence for the respect and affection von Mehren experienced from friends and colleagues is the overwhelming number of personal tributes published within the few weeks since he passed away. The editors of the Harvard Law Review respectfully dedicated the May 2006 issue to him. A recent issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law contains warm and illuminating tributes by James R. Gordley and Symeon C. Symeonides. Similar obituaries appeared in European law reviews.

The aim of this article is to trace back the evolution of an outstanding academic career and to highlight some of the many important contributions to legal scholarship authored by von Mehren.

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Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World , pp. 10 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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