\u003cp\u003eIn these critical essays a leading comparative lawyer:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠examines the movement for convergence of the Civil Law and the Common Law\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠describes the Italian Style and the French Deviation\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠contrasts Common Law estate with Civil Law ownership\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠explains why the distinction between public law and private law is important to Civil Lawyers but has little interest for Common Lawyers\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠exposes the fatal emptiness at the core of the Law and Development movement\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠proposes a marriage of comparative law and scientific explanation\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠emphasizes the fundamental relation between law and social and cultural change\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠argues that the dominant tradition of comparative law teaching and scholarship is trapped in a cramped and arid 19th century paradigm\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e⢠advocates a culturally broader and historically richer approach to comparative law teaching and scholarship\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e