FOR OVER 35 years Mirjan Damaška’s work has shone like a beacon over those who try to make sense of the similarities and differences between national legal systems. As someone who was a professor of law at the University of Zagreb Law School before coming to the United States to teach at the University of Pennsylvania and then at Yale, his work reflects an unparalleled range of erudition and a deep understanding of the common law and civil law traditions born of personal experience.
