Explanation Interpretation in Functionalist Comparative Law — a Response to Julie De Coninck

Authors

Ralf Michaels, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Keywords

endowment effect, empricial foundations, behavioral studies

Abstract

Response to Julie de Coninck, The Functional Method of Comparative Law: Quo Vadis?, 74 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 318–350 (2010) in which De Coninck criticizes existing functionalist comparative law for what she perceives as lack of interest in empirical foundations.

Citation

Ralf Michaels, Explanation Interpretation in Functionalist Comparative Law — a Response to Julie De Coninck, 74 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 351-359 (2010)