The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.

盖多·卡拉布雷西，1932年生于意大利米兰，后随父母移居美国。早年求学于耶鲁大学和牛津大学，曾任《耶鲁法学》编辑和美国联邦最高法院胡果·布莱克大法官的秘书。1959年起执教于耶鲁大学法学院，1985年起任院长。1994年被任命为联邦第二巡回上诉法院法官。

克雷斯蒂安·冯·巴尔（CHRISTIAN VON BAR），1952年出生于汉诺威，先后就读于弗赖堡大学、基尔大学和哥廷根大学，获法学博士学位。1981年就任奥斯纳布吕克大学法学院教授，1987年创建该校私法与国际法比较研究所并一直担任所长至今。其著述等身，代表作有《社会生活一般义务》、《国际私法》和《欧洲比较侵权行为法》。巴尔教授是欧洲当代最著名的私法学者之一，其所担任主席的“欧洲民法典”研究项目是欧洲私法界最引人注目的研究项目。除了教学和研究所的工作外，他还担任众多兼职和客座职务。

This book is the second of a two-volume treatise on the law of non-contractual obligations. The result of a unique attempt to discover the common elements of the law of torts of all the member states of the EU, it is founded on the belief that the approximation of European laws should not be left to the directives and regulations of Brussels alone. To this end, von Bar has unde...(展开全部)

First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classic status. In a new preface, Professor van Caenegem discusses some recent developments in the study of English law under the Norman and earliest Angevin kings. The book provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the Common Law in Anglo-Norman England, against the background of t...(展开全部)

韩阳，女，1977年生，北京第二外国语学院法政学院副教授，法学博士，中国社会科学院法学所出站博士后。

“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published. We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the fut...(展开全部)

杰拉德·波斯特玛，美国北卡罗来纳大学法学及哲学教授，当代英语世界杰出的法哲学家、政治哲学家和观念史学家。该书是他的代表作。