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| | French Law in Action : Cornell University Law School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | In the close knit world of today, the U.S. practicing lawyer finds that to an ever-increasing extent, his or her foreign and local clients, individuals or corporations, governmental, or international bodies, are faced with problems cutting across territories and the legal systems of more than one nation. |
 | | In this day and age of globalization, U.S. students need to be exposed to different legal systems, so that they understand better the procedural and substantive law of a legal system other than the U.S., and the mentality and reasoning of lawyers in different countries. |
 | | French law has a particular interest, as a prototype of the civil law tradition, as contrasted with the Anglo-American common law tradition, based on English law, and followed in the U.S. Professor Claire M. Germain |
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