The role of practice in legal education

Abstract

The submitted reports may be said to refl ect what Prof. Mathias Reimann criticizes as the “Country and Western tradition” of comparative law more generally, in which the emphasis is on Europe and its scholars who focus their comparative attentions on the operation of private law within “nation state legal systems and Western capitalist societies.” That tendency, he suggests, is in “dire need of a major overhaul.” 3 Here, the individual national reporters could have no way of knowing who would respond on the topic under review, and most of the legal education under study here is within the public realm. Yet the Reimann critique must be taken seriously if true and accurate comparisons are to take place within the academy