McGill University - Faculty of Law - Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law; Dickson Poon School of Law
October 3, 2011
Forthcoming, (2014) Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke
This paper was presented to the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Quebec Association of Comparative Law at the Faculté de droit, Université de Sherbrooke, in October 2011, within the conference theme “The jurists who have shaped comparative law: their dreams, works, successes and failures.” It studies aspects of the thought of Peter Birks in relation to comparative law, Roman law, legal scholarship and legal education. Birks valued comparative law, and thought that it could be more thoroughly integrated into research and teaching in law. About Roman law, however, he was passionate. He viewed it as a fascinating object of study and reflection, and as an essential part of undergraduate legal education. He deprecated the decline of Roman law as part of the law school curriculum. In this paper, I suggest that one reaction to the decline of Roman law in legal education could be a more comprehensive embrace of comparative law. If comparative law were integrated carefully into the curriculum, it could bring to students all of the benefits that Birks found in the study of Roman law.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 10
Keywords: comparative law, roman law, legal education
Disponível em: <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2349286>. Acesso em 19 nov. 2013.
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