Three Patterns of Law: Taxonomy and Change in the World's Legal Systems

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Journal Article Three Patterns of Law: Taxonomy and Change in the World’s Legal Systems Get access Ugo Mattei Ugo Mattei 1Ugo Mattei is Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law, Hastings College of the Law, University of California and Professor of Civil Law, University of Trento. An early Italian draft of this paper was presented in Rome as a scintilla iuris in memory of Gino Gorla. Other versions have been circulated at the “Conference on New Approaches to Comparative Law” at the University of Utah, and discussed at a Faculty Colloquium at Hastings College of Law and at a Legal Theory Worksop at Columbia University. I wish to thank all the participants to those discussions as well as Antonio Gambaro, Rodolfo Sacco, Michele Graziadei, Gianmaria Ajani, Mauro Bussani, Elisabetta Grande, Hillary Josephs, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Laura Nader, Eric Feldman, James Gordley, Bill Wang, Ashtosh Baghwat, David Feigman, George Fletcher, Frank Upham, Antonino Procida, Stanley Lubman, Mirabelli di Lauro, Alejandro Garro, Andrzej Rapaczymski, Thomas Ulen, and Dan Henderson for their helpful comments on different occasions. Thanks also to Fabio Marino, (Hastings 1996) and Mario Prats (Hastings 1997), for editing, translation and research assistance. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 45, Issue 1, Winter 1997, Pages 5–44, https://doi.org/10.2307/840958 Published: 01 January 1997