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I've been gradually picking up my piano skills these days...As the saying (Schumann) goes, pieces written by Bach (fugues in particular) are the spiritual bread of all musicians, so I'm currently practicing Bach's second English Suite. It has been fun experience so far.
I've also been reading "The Civil Law Tradition" (1953) by John Henry Merryman of Stanford. Although Merryman was quick to point out the diverse prejudices Civil Law jurists and Common Lawyers harbor towards each other's tradition, he himself (almost subconsciously) reveals a great deal of similar prejudices against the Civil Law tradition in this little booklet. It has been a little bit annoying, listening to Merryman repeating how abstract, unrealistic, dogmatic and "radical" the Civil Law tradition is. Geez...some much better treatments could be found amongst the historical essays contained in John Honnold's "The Life of the Law" (1963?) (Honnold himself was an authority on private international law and a law professor at Penn.)
posted by James Chang @ 12:59 AM
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