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Comments on Foreign Law Surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Adolf Sprudzs*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago Law School Library, Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.

Extract

Surveys and comparisons are always very difficult, if not impossible, when the same criteria cannot be applied to all objects of the survey.

The surveys undertaken by Kurt Schwerin in 1960 and Igor Kavass in 1972 belong to this category of nearly impossible tasks and their results should therefore not be considered as the “absolute” or “pure truth”. Why? Basically, because they attempt to measure and compare collections in libraries which have different rules, policies and practices of classifying and handling them.

Type
National Report: USA
Copyright
Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1974 

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References

** Cf. 11 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 537 (1962).Google Scholar

*** Cf. 1 International Journal of Law Libraries, 117 (1973).Google Scholar