Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks on "Looking Out of the Cave"

Authors

Hessel E. Yntema, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Despite this risk and without limiting discussion of comparative legal research to a Platonic theory of knowledge-to which I for one would not accede-the text prompts first the inquiry, unavoidable in a constructive discussion of the matter, whether contemporary legal study in the United States is concerned with shadows in an intellectual cave-or in other words, whether it is true, as I was told years ago, partly perhaps in jest, by a late distinguished member of the Supreme Court, then Attorney General, when, encountering me on a visit to the Department of Justice, he kindly asked what I was looking for, and I said, "Justice," that it was the last place to look.

Recommended Citation

Hessel E. Yntema, Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks on "Looking Out of the Cave", 54 Mich. L. Rev. 899 (1956).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol54/iss7/2