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The Potential of Comparative Law

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Mentoring Comparative Lawyers: Methods, Times, and Places

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice ((IUSGENT,volume 77))

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The chapter aims to review the contributions in this volume and to highlight the many aspects of Bussani’s Weltanschauung that might offer valuable insights about the role and purposes of comparative law in today’s and tomorrow’s world.

Francesca Fiorentini is the author of Sects. 1–4; Marta Infantino is the author of Sects. 5–8. Section 9 is co-authored.

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    Mentoring is somewhat institutionalized as far as relationships between Ph.D. students and their supervisors is concerned. In the case of Ph.D. students, mentorship might be for the mentor a means of self-affirmation and promotion of her/is own reputation in the legal market. Yet, this does not hold true for mentoring students who are not interested in pursuing an academic career. As stated in the Introduction, a few of the contributors were or are Ph.D. students under Bussani’s supervision, but the majority was not.

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    Marta Infantino

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Fiorentini, F., Infantino, M. (2020). The Potential of Comparative Law. In: Fiorentini, F., Infantino, M. (eds) Mentoring Comparative Lawyers: Methods, Times, and Places . Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34754-3_14

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