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

  • Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Duke University, North Carolina, Giesela Ruhl, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Germany, Jan von Hein, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Germany
  • Book:
    Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World
    Published online:
    08 September 2009
    Print publication:
    03 September 2007, pp 10-26

  • 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.