Article by Sir Basil Markesinis and Jörg Fedtke
Traditionally, American constitutional scholarship has been deep, but not at all wide.
[A]s Wine and Oyl are Imported to us from abroad: so must ripe Understanding, and many civil Vertues, be imported into our minds from Forreign Writings, and examples of best Ages, we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great Enterprise.
About the Author
Sir Basil Markesinis. Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London; Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas; Membre Correspondent of the Institut de France; Queen's Counsel; Fellow of the British Academy. LL.D., University of Cambridge; DCL, University of Oxford.
Jörg Fedtke. Reader in Comparative Law and Director of the Institute of Global Law at University College London; Dr. iur., University of Hamburg.
Citation
80 Tul. L. Rev. 11 (2005)