This post from the Antitrust Review blog is a little off-topic, but I found it interesting, and perhaps other trade lawyers who have worked in both American and European legal systems will as well:
... legal scholarship in the US is dominated by an external or policy point of view, in which the law is the object of study, undertaken from an economic, sociological, psychological, etc. point of view. In contrast, most European scholarship — with the exception of legal history — proceeds from an internal point of view, that is, accepting of law’s normative constraints.
I am curious to see whether others think this is an accurate description.
