Curran on Comparative Law and Language Revisited @PittLaw @pittlawfaculty @OxUniPress

Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is publishing Comparative Law and Language Revisited in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, (Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., forthcoming). Here is the abstract.

Comparative law shares with language the pitfalls of miscommunication and misunderstanding, as well as the potentials of learning to see, to communicate and to shed light in that elusive, inevitable, shifting and ever-reconfiguring space that, like language, it occupies between the same and the other. Today, the role of comparative law as translator for the international, the cross-border, the transnational, has emerged as so crucial so often and in so many places that one may say what comparative law has become today has changed as domestic courts’ confrontations with foreign law has made the need for comparative law understanding vital, if not dire.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.