罗伯特·卡萨德(Robert Casad)关于比较民事诉讼的文章是最先引起我注意的几篇比较法学类文章之一。我当时还是纽约一家顶级律所的一名刚刚入行的助理律师。随后我就开始大量翻阅比较法学的期刊,而没有去花大量的时间去处理客户业务。我此前从来不知道原来比较法学这么有趣,因为我一直认为在民事诉讼方面,比较法学著作并没有太大用处。(在20世纪60年代晚期到70年代早期,耶鲁大学甚至不教授比较法学课程;国际法的教学也和民事诉讼严重脱节。) Robert Casad’s article on comparative civil litigation was one of the few juridical articles that caught my attention first. At that time I was a newly enrolled assistant at a top New York law firm. Then I started massively reading Jurisprudence journals instead of spending a lot of time dealing with client business. I never knew that it was more interesting than comparative jurisprudence, because I always thought that in the field of civil litigation legal works of law are not of much use. (In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Yale did not even teach comparative law curricula; the teaching of international law was also severed from civil suit.)