The Progress and Failure of Comparative Law in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century*

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Journal Article The Progress and Failure of Comparative Law in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Get access Mathias Reimann Mathias Reimann 1Mathias Reimann is Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law, University of Michigan. Thanks to Reuven Avi-Yonah, Frances Foster, Peter Hammer, Hein Kötz, Ernst Mestmäcker, Eric Stein, Mark West, and Reinhard Zimmermann for helpful comments. I presented a summary of this article at the Max Planck Institut für auslandisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg in October of 2002 and thank its participants in the following discussion for many valuable contributions. I dedicate this article to Eric Stein, the first holder of the Yntema Chair at the University of Michigan Law School and one of the last living icons of the era considered here Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 4, Fall 2002, Pages 671–700, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/50.4.671 Published: 01 October 2002