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Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems. Edited by Richard A. Danner and Marie-Louise Bernal. New York, London, Rome: Oceana Publications, 1994. Pp. xxvi, 423. $85.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Timothy Kearley*
Affiliation:
University of Wyoming College of Law

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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References

1 Professor Germain previously coauthored, with the late Charles Szladits, the extensive examination of French law and legal materials, Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French (1985).

2 The chapter on Japan was written by Sung Yoon Cho; the chapter on the People’s Republic of China by Constance A. Johnson; and the chapter on Taiwan by Wendy I. Zeldin.

3 See, e.g., John H. Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America (2d ed. 1985), and Frederick Henry Lawson, A Common Lawyer Looks at the Civil Law (1977), noted in at least two contributions to this collection.

4 The two most extensive surveys of foreign and international legal materials are Claire Germain, Germain’s Transnational Law Research: A Guide for Attorneys (1991—), and Thomas Reynolds & Arturo Flores, Foreign