Remarks by Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
We are now approaching the end of this conference and it falls to me, on behalf of the International Association of Legal Science, to make a few concluding remarks.
I will do it rather briefly, without trying to summarize our discussions. This would be a vain and practically impossible task, especially because we have witnessed, during these three days, a great variety of opinions and appraisals. This variety should not come as a surprise. We also have different approaches to law, to legal science, and to legal education, and it is quite normal that this diversity is reflected in comparative law. It is even desirable and healthy, as in any science, insofar as divergences nourish the debate and further deepen our understanding of the problems. More than any other jurist, the comparatist knows the value of confrontation. The only requisite is to be tolerant and to accept that people think differently than we do: Comparative law is also a good schooling in modesty.
I do note that we agree on some fundamentals—and this is precisely what I would like to emphasize here, even if my appreciation may seem, in some respects, a bit subjective. Please forgive me for this possible breach of my duty of neutrality. I will go back very rapidly over some of the main issues that appeared on our agenda.
About the Author
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan. President, International Association of Legal Science.
Citation
75 Tul. L. Rev. 1235 (2001)