CAHSS Faculty Articles
The Life and Times of a Local Court Judge in Berlin
Publication Title
German Law Journal
ISSN
2071-8322
Publication Date
3-2009
Abstract
Extract
In the study of comparative law and legal systems, a problem of focus and perspective presents itself. Comparative scholars often examine the “important” cases decided by appellate courts of foreign nations and the writings of their most important scholars. In Anglo-American nations, jurists are taught in law school, and then in the practice of law to look for authoritative texts, which are often the words of appellate court judges who set precedent. The results of these searches for the authoritative, both in national as well as comparative legal research, may be that scholars do not give enough attention to the average and the pedestrian, but rather focus upon the exceptional, the appellate, the influential and the newsworthy.
DOI
10.1017/S2071832200001012
Volume
10
Issue
3
First Page
169
Last Page
204
NSUWorks Citation
Levitt, S. R. (2009). The Life and Times of a Local Court Judge in Berlin. German Law Journal, 10 (3), 169-204. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2071832200001012
