SPECIAL ISSUE: TRANSNATIONALIZING LEGAL EDUCATION

Men make theirownhistory, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make itundercircumstanceschosenby themselves, but under circumstances directlyfound,givenand transmitted fromthepast.The tradition of allthedead generations weighslikea nightmare onthebrain of theliving.And just when they seem engaged inrevolutionizing themselves andthings,increating something entirelynew,preciselyinsuchepochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiouslyconjureupthespirits of the past to their serviceandborrowfrom them names, battle slogansand costumes inorder to present the new scene of worldhistoryinthis time-honoured disguiseand this borrowed tonquaqe.'