But it is also addressed to those who, for any reason, wish to know more about the ASCL and its missions.
Comparative law finds itself in a period of intensive self-reexamination in the United States.
With the passage of a generation of comparative law scholars who, by training or birth, took the legitimacy of the discipline almost for granted, American comparatists are asking more fundamental questions about the discipline than have been asked for many years. The sources of change are not merely generational, however. Comparative law is appealing to a vastly wider group of scholars than in the past. These scholars come to it with a correspondingly vaster range of intellectual backgrounds. They seek to employ comparative law in aid of a vastly broader range of inquiries and geographic foci.