Translation & the Reception of Foreign Law in the Antebellum United States

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Journal Article Translation & the Reception of Foreign Law in the Antebellum United States Get access M.H. Hoeflich M.H. Hoeflich 1M.H. Hoeflich is John H. & John M. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law; B.A., M.A. Haverford College, M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge University, J.D. Yale. I want to thank Ms. Karenbeth Farmer, KU Law Class of 2002 for her research and editorial assistance. I would also like to acknowledge financial assistance in doing this paper received from the University of Kansas Center for International Business and the U.S. Department of Education, and the Kane Endowment at the Kansas University Endowment Association, and two Fellowships, the Phillips Fellowship in Jurisprudence of the American Philosophical Society and the Reese Fellowship in Bibliography and the History of the American Book of the American Antiquarian Society. A version of this paper was presented at a colloquium at the American Antiquarian Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 50, Issue 4, Fall 2002, Pages 753–775, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/50.4.753 Published: 01 October 2002