Recommended readings (Machine generated): Allen, Sir Carleton Kemp (1951), 'Precedent: Nature and History', in Law in the Making, Chapter III, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 154-227
Atiyah, P.S. (1989), 'The Development of the Modern Law of Contract', in An Introduction to the Law of Contract, Chapter 1, 4th Edition, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1-39
Banner, Stuart (1999), 'Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand', Law and Social Inquiry, 24 (4), Autumn, 807-52
de Bary, Wm. Theodore (1995), 'The "Constitutional Tradition" in China', Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 9 (1), Spring, 7-34
Calabresi, Guido (1982), 'Interpretation', in A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, Chapter IV, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 31-42, 203-17
Cappelletti, Mauro (1981), 'The Doctrine of Stare Decisis and the Civil Law: A Fundamental Difference - or no Difference at All?', in Herbert Bernstein, Ulrich Drobnig and Hein Kötz (eds), Festschrift für Konrad Zweigert zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 381-93
Chase, Oscar G. (2002), 'American "Exceptionalism" and Comparative Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (2), Spring, 277-301
Costantini, Cristiana (2010), 'The Keepers of Traditions: The English Common Lawyers and the Presence of Law', Comparative Law Review, 1 (2), 1-12
Damaška, Mirjan (1975), 'Structures of Authority and Comparative Criminal Procedure', Yale Law Journal, 84 (3), January, 480-544
Demsetz, Harold (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 347-59
Djankov, Simeon, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517
Elster, Jon (1995), 'Forces and Mechanisms in the Constitution-Making Process', Duke Law Journal, 45 (2), November, 364-96
Farnsworth, E. Allan (1962), 'Formation of International Sales Contracts: Three Attempts at Unification', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 110 (3), January, 305-29
Ferejohn, John (1997), 'The Politics of Imperfection: The Amendment of Constitutions', Law and Social Inquiry, 22 (2), Spring, 501-30
Fleming, John G. (1984), 'Comparative Law of Torts', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 4 (2), Summer, 235-43
Fuller, Lon L. (1941), 'Consideration and Form', Columbia Law Review, 41 (5), May, 799-824
Gardbaum, Stephen (2001), 'The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism', American Journal of Comparative Law, 49 (4), Autumn, 707-60
Gargarella, Roberto (2005), 'The Constitution of Inequality: Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776- 1860', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3 (1), January, 1-23
Garlicki, Lech (2007), 'Constitutional Courts versus Supreme Courts', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 5 (1), 44-68.

Gilmore, Grant (1974), 'Decline and Fall', in The Death of Contract, Chapter III, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 61-93, references
Ginsburg, Tom (2002), 'Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts', Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 3 (1), January, 49-85
Goodhart, A.L. (1934), 'Precedent in English and Continental Law', Law Quarterly Review, L (CXCVII), January, 40-65
Gordley, James (1981), 'Equality in Exchange', California Law Review, 69 (6), December, 1587-656
Gordley, James (2011), 'The Abuse of Rights in the Civil Law Tradition', in Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law?, Chapter 4, Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 33-46
Heller, Michael A. (1998), 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 621-88
Horowitz, Donald L. (2002) 'Constitutional Design: Proposals versus Processes', in Andrew Reynolds (ed.), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 15-36, references
Kelsen, Hans (1942), 'Judicial Review of Legislation: A Comparative Study of the Austrian and the American Constitution', Journal of Politics, 4 (2), May, 183-200
Kommers, Donald P. (1991), 'German Constitutionalism: A Prolegomenon', Emory Law Journal, 40, 837-73
Langbein, John H. and Lloyd L. Weinreb (1978), 'Continental Criminal Procedure: "Myth" and Reality', Yale Law Journal, 87 (8), July, 1549-69
Langer, Máximo (2004), 'From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure', Harvard International Law Journal, 45 (1), Winter, 1-64
Lawson, Craig M. (1982), 'The Family Affinities of Common-Law and Civil-Law Legal Systems', Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 6, 85-131
Levmore, Saul (1986), 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87
Llewellyn, Karl N. (1931), 'What Price Contract? - An Essay in Perspective', Yale Law Journal, 40 (5), March, 704-51
Lorenzen, Ernest G. (1919), 'Causa and Consideration in the Law of Contracts', Yale Law Journal, XXVIII (7), May, 621-46
Malmström, Åke (1969), 'The System of Legal Systems: Notes on a Problem of Classification in Comparative Law', Scandinavian Studies in Law, 13, 127, 130-49
Markesinis, B.S. (1978), 'Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel', Cambridge Law Journal, 37 (1), April, 53-75
von Mehren, Arthur T. (1959), 'Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis', Harvard Law Review, 72 (6), April, 1009-78
Metzger, Ernest (2004), 'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2), Summer, 243-75.

Monateri, Pier Giuseppe (2000), 'Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition"', Hastings Law Journal, 51, 479-555
Parisi, Francesco (1994), 'Alterum non Laedere: An Intellectual History of Civil Liability', American Journal of Jurisprudence, 39, 317-51
La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2008), 'The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (2), June, 285-332
Pound, Roscoe (1964), 'Justice According to Law', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 217-79
Radin, Max (1964), 'Case Law and Stare Decisis: Concerning Präjudizienrecht in Amerika', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 3-16
Ramseyer, J. Mark (1994), 'The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach', Journal of Legal Studies, 23 (2), June, 721-47
Reich, Charles A. (1964), 'The New Property', Yale Law Journal, 73 (5), April, 733-87
Rose, Carol M. (1985), 'Possession as the Origin of Property', University of Chicago Law Review, 52 (1), Winter, 73-88
Rosenn, Keith S. (1974), 'Judicial Review in Latin America', Ohio State Law Journal, 35, 785-819
Rudden, Bernard (1994), 'Things as Thing and Things as Wealth', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 14 (1), Spring, 81-97
Ruskola, Teemu (2002), 'Legal Orientalism', Michigan Law Review, 101 (1), October, 179-234
Shapiro, Martin (1981), 'The Prototype of Courts', in Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 1-64, 223-26
Sherwin, Richard K. (2008), 'Sublime Jurisprudence: On the Ethical Education of the Legal Imagination in Our Time', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 83 (3), 1157-96
Stein, Peter G. (1992), 'Roman Law, Common Law, and Civil Law', Tulane Law Review, 66 (5), May, 1591-603
Stewart, Richard B. (1987), 'Crisis in Tort Law? The Institutional Perspective', University of Chicago Law Review, 54 (1), Winter, 184-99
Stone, Julius (1959), 'The Ratio of the Ratio Decidendi', Modern Law Review, 22 (6), November, 597-620
Stone Sweet, Alec (1999), 'Judicialization and the Construction of Governance', Comparative Political Studies, 32 (2), April, 147-84
Watson, Alan (1988), 'The Law of Delict and Quasi-Delict on the French Code Civil', in Failures of the Legal Imagination, Chapter 1, Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Academic Press, 1-33
Weiler, J.H.H. (1991), 'The Transformation of Europe', Yale Law Journal, 100 (8), June, 2403-83.

White, G. Edward (2003), 'The Intellectual Origins of Torts in America', in Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3-19, 339-45
Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. (1903), 'The History of Comparative Jurisprudence', Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 5 (1), 74-89
Roscoe Pound (1955), 'Comparative Law in Space and Time', American Journal of Comparative Law, 4 (1), Winter, 70-84
Alan Watson (2000), 'Law Out of Context', Edinburgh Law Review, 4 (2), May, 147-67
O. Kahn-Freund (1974), 'On Uses and Misuses of Comparative Law', Modern Law Review, 37 (1), January, 1-27
H.C. Gutteridge ([1949] 1971), 'The Process of Comparison', in Comparative Law: An Introduction to the Comparative Method of Legal Study and Research, Chapter VI, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 72-87
Alan Watson (1993), 'Comparative Law as an Academic Discipline', 'The Perils of Comparative Law', 'The Virtues of Comparative Law', in Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law - Second Edition, Chapters 1-3, Athens, GA and London, UK: University of Georgia Press, 1-20
Pierre Legrand (1997), 'The Impossibility of "Legal Transplants"', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 4, 111-24
Roderick A. Macdonald (1985), 'Understanding Civil Law Scholarship in Quebec', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 23 (4), 573-608
A.N. Yiannopoulos (1980), 'Louisiana Civil Law: A Lost Cause?', Tulane Law Review, 54 (3), April, 830-48
Edward M. Wise (1990), 'The Transplant of Legal Patterns', American Journal of Comparative Law: Supplement. U.S. Law in an Era of Democratization, 38, 1-22
Duncan Kennedy (2006), 'Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000', in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos (eds), The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal, Chapter 2, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 19-73
William Twining (2004), 'Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective', Journal of Legal Pluralism, 49, 1-45
Pierre Legrand (1996), 'European Legal Systems Are Not Converging', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 45 (1), January, 52-81
E. Adamson Hoebel (1954), 'The Cultural Background of Law', in The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics, Chapter 1, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 3-17, references
Richard A. Posner (1980), 'A Theory of Primitive Society, with Special Reference to Law', Journal of Law and Economics, XXIII (1), April, 1-53
Francesco Parisi (2001), 'The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law', American Law and Economics Review, 3 (1), Spring, 82-124
David Friedman (1979), 'Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case', Journal of Legal Studies, 8 (2), March, 399-415
Clifford Geertz (1983), 'Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective', in Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, Chapter 8, New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 167-234.

Peter G. Stein (1992), 'Roman Law, Common Law, and Civil Law', Tulane Law Review, 66 (5), May, 1591-603
Craig M. Lawson (1982), 'The Family Affinities of Common-Law and Civil-Law Legal Systems', Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 6, 85-131
Teemu Ruskola (2002), 'Legal Orientalism', Michigan Law Review, 101 (1), October, 179-234
Åke Malmström (1969), 'The System of Legal Systems: Notes on a Problem of Classification in Comparative Law', Scandinavian Studies in Law, 13, 127, 129-49
P.G. Monateri (2000), 'Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition"', Hastings Law Journal, 51 (3), March, 479-555
Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2008), 'The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins', Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (2), June, 285-332
Max Radin (1964), 'Case Law and Stare Decisis: Concerning Präjudizienrecht in Amerika', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 3-16
Roscoe Pound (1964), 'Justice According to Law', in Essays on Jurisprudence from the Columbia Law Review, New York, NY and London, UK: Columbia University Press, 217-79
Guido Calabresi (1982), 'Interpretation', in A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, Chapter IV, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 31-43, 203-17
Richard K. Sherwin (2008), 'Sublime Jurisprudence: On the Ethical Education of the Legal Imagination in Our Time', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 83 (3), June, 1157-96
Cristina Costantini (2010), 'The Keepers of Traditions: The English Common Lawyers and the Presence of Law', Comparative Law Review, 1 (2), Fall, 1-12
Mauro Cappelletti (1981), 'The Doctrine of Stare Decisis and the Civil Law: A Fundamental Difference - or no Difference at All?', in Herbert Bernstein, Ulrich Drobnig and Hein Kötz (eds), Festschrift für Konrad Zweigert zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 381-93
A.L. Goodhart (1934), 'Precedent in English and Continental Law', Law Quarterly Review, L (CXCVII), January, 40-65
Julius Stone (1959), 'The Ratio of the Ratio Decidendi', Modern Law Review, 22 (6), November, 597-620
Carleton Kemp Allen (1951), 'Precedent: Nature and History', in Law in the Making - Fifth Edition, Chapter III, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 154-227
J. Mark Ramseyer (1994), 'The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach', Journal of Legal Studies, XXIII (2), June, 721-47
Alec Stone Sweet (1999), 'Judicialization and the Construction of Governance', Comparative Political Studies, 32 (2), April, 147-84
Lech Garlicki (2007), 'Constitutional Courts versus Supreme Courts', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 5 (1), January, 44-68
Tom Ginsburg (2002), 'Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts', Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 3 (1), January, 49-85.

Martin Shapiro (1981), 'The Prototype of Courts', in Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 1-64, 223-26
Roberto Gargarella (2005), 'The Constitution of Inequality. Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776-1860', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3 (1), January, 1-23
Carol M. Rose (1985), 'Possession as the Origin of Property', University of Chicago Law Review, 52 (1), Winter, 73-88
Harold Demsetz (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 347-59
James Gordley (2011), 'The Abuse of Rights in the Civil Law Tradition', in Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law?, Chapter 4, Oxford, UK and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 33-46
Bernard Rudden (1994), 'Things as Thing and Things as Wealth', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 14 (1), Spring, 81-97
Charles A. Reich (1964), 'The New Property', Yale Law Journal, 73 (5), April, 733-87
Stuart Banner (1999), 'Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand', Law and Social Inquiry, 24 (4), Autumn, 807-52
Michael A. Heller (1998), 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 621-88
P.S. Atiyah (1989), 'The Development of the Modern Law of Contract', in An Introduction to the Law of Contract - Fourth Edition, Chapter I, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1-39
Arthur T. von Mehren (1959), 'Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis', Harvard Law Review, 72 (6), April, 1009-78
B.S. Markesinis (1978), 'Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel', Cambridge Law Journal, 37 (1), April, 53-75
Ernest G. Lorenzen (1919), 'Causa and Consideration in the Law of Contracts', Yale Law Journal, XXVIII (7), May, 621-46
Lon L. Fuller (1941), 'Consideration and Form', Columbia Law Review, 41 (5), May, 799-824
Karl N. Llewellyn (1931), 'What Price Contract? - An Essay in Perspective', Yale Law Journal, 40 (5), March, 704-51
Grant Gilmore (1974), 'Decline and Fall', in The Death of Contract, Chapter III, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 61-93, 127-40
James Gordley (1981), 'Equality in Exchange', California Law Review, 69 (6), December, 1587-656
E. Allan Farnsworth (1962), 'Formation of International Sales Contracts: Three Attempts at Unification', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 110 (3), January, 305-29
Francesco Parisi (1994), 'Alterum non Laedere: An Intellectual History of Civil Liability', American Journal of Jurisprudence, 39 (1), 317-51.

Saul Levmore (1986), 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87
G. Edward White (2003), 'The Intellectual Origins of Torts in America', in Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 3-19, 339-45
Alan Watson (1988), 'The Law of Delict and Quasi-Delict in the French Code Civil', in Failures of the Legal Imagination, Chapter 1, Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Academic Press, 1-33
Richard B. Stewart (1987), 'Crisis in Tort Law? The Institutional Perspective', University of Chicago Law Review, 54 (1), Winter, 184-99
John G. Fleming (1984), 'Comparative Law of Torts', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 4 (2), Summer, 235-43
Jon Elster (1995), 'Forces and Mechanisms in the Constitution-Making Process', Duke Law Journal, 45 (2), November, 364-96
Donald L. Horowitz (2002), 'Constitutional Design: Proposals versus Processes', in Andrew Reynolds (ed.), The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 15-36, references
Stephen Gardbaum (2001), 'The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism', American Journal of Comparative Law, 49 (4), Autumn, 707-60
Donald P. Kommers (1991), 'German Constitutionalism: A Prolegomenon', Emory Law Journal, 40, 837-73
Wm. Theodore de Bary (1995), 'The "Constitutional Tradition" in China', Journal of Chinese Law, 9 (1), Spring, 7-34
John Ferejohn (1997), 'The Politics of Imperfection: The Amendment of Constitutions', Law and Social Inquiry, 22 (2), Spring, 501-30
Hans Kelsen (1942), 'Judicial Review of Legislation: A Comparative Study of the Austrian and the American Constitution', Journal of Politics, 4 (2), May, 183-200
Keith S. Rosenn (1974), 'Judicial Review in Latin America', Ohio State Law Journal, 35, 785-819
J.H.H. Weiler (1991), 'The Transformation of Europe', Yale Law Journal, 100 (8), June, 2403-83
Ernest Metzger (2004), 'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2), Summer, 243-75
Oscar G. Chase (2002), 'American "Exceptionalism" and Comparative Procedure', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (2), Spring, 277-301
Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517
Mirjan Damaška (1975), 'Structures of Authority and Comparative Criminal Procedure', Yale Law Journal, 84 (3), January, 480-544
Máximo Langer (2004), 'From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure', Harvard International Law Journal, 45 (1), Winter, 1-64.

John H. Langbein and Lloyd L. Weinreb (1978), 'Continental Criminal Procedure: "Myth" and Reality', Yale Law Journal, 87 (8), July, 1549-69.