»Law as the Study of Norms« – Foundational Subjects and Interdisciplinarity in Germany and the United States
The German Council of Science and Humanities‹ report on »Prospects of Legal Scholarship in Germany. Current Situation, Analyses, Recommendations« has sparked a lively debate amongst legal scholars in Germany on how to adapt legal education and legal scholarship to the challenges of increasing internationalization of the law. The first contribution to our symposium on Prospects of Legal Scholarship takes a look at the state of interdisciplinary studies at German and US-American law faculties and compares the Wissenschaft’s report to the recently issued report by the American Bar Association. In my view, the Wissenschaftsrat’s report hits almost all the right notes. One ... continue reading
