Kellogg Institute Faculty Colloquium: Tamar Herzog, Harvard

Long before the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, the perception that Britain was substantially different from other European countries was relatively widespread. This perception was based, at least partially, on the conviction that English law was radically different from Continental Roman Civil law. Herzog, however, argues that these conclusions are based on misconceptions: If we looked at England from the Continent, what would we see?

Tamar Herzog is the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University, where she is also the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor in the Department of History and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School.