"Understanding any foreign system of law is difficult"; "Cases have different value in different systems, but in all systems a student who wants to understand the system must refer to cases."
These two statements borrowed from an interesting article by Prof. J. N. Hazard indicate the point at issue in the following discussion. In the United States Professors H. Berman, V. Gsovski, G. Guins, J. Hazard, and H. Kelsen have devoted special works to the study of Soviet law, not to mention a number of valuable articles written by various competent jurists.