Carlos Petit 150 creasingly internationalized economic traffic. It was for this reason that American law struck him as better suited for comparison than other laws which were culturally closer. However, the American experience in uniformlegislation and in the control of constitutionality also interested him and he studied both with great attention^’ as models which could illustrate the growth which European nations and the reformulation of their systems of public lawsaw before them. A complex vision of legal sources was once more at stake, between which the old Insistence on judge-made-law had yielded, with the obligatory recovery of Gény, to a positive value attached to the corporative establishment and administrative practice as the strongest elements of the system, at least among western peoples with a “capitaliste”^^ tradition. However, above and beyond the most obvious cultural barriers separating Common and Civil Law, an attempt was being made to translate the experience of a war, which had destroyed the last vestiges of a law of the European peoples, into professional knowledge, and for jurists to assume the reticent international presence of the United States without difficulty. The Institut de Droit Compare, with its university courses and richly endowed Biblioteque,^^ was founded at last in 1921. In spite of its many shortcomings. The League of Nations also interested Lambert, if only as a forum which was not exclusively European. The International Employment Office held particular appeal for himand he soon analysed it as a sectorial source for the production of a genuine droit commun international.^'^ Lambert’s passion for teaching moved progressively forward to the creation of an international law faculty, thus giving rise to a new major Comparative Law congress the opening of a long series which has lasted until our day.^^ Very interesting subjects indeed, which require further research. But since the aim of this paper is to propose material for future research, I think this might be an appropriate moment to come to a provisional conclusion. Edouard Lambert, “Les tendences å I’unification du droit aux Etats-Unis, 1868-1922”, in Bulletin, 52 (1922-1923), 135-165; id., Le gouvemement dcs juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux Etats-Unis, Paris, Giard, 1921. Edouard Lambert, L'enseignement du droit comme science sociale et comme science internationale, in Robert Valeur, L'enseignement du droit en France et aux Etats-Unis, Paris, Giard (=Bibliotheque de ITnstitut de Droit Comparé de Lyon, 23), 1928. Cfr. (Edouard Lambert), L’Institut de Droit Comparé de Lyon. (Liste de ses publications antcrieurs a 1936), 22 pp. Edouard Lambert, “La documentation jurisprudentielle comparée”, in Bulletin, 1923, 12 pp. (offprint). Edouard Lambert, Le role d’un Congres international de Droit Comparé en Van 1931, Paris, Giard, 1929; Edouard Lambert -John H. Wigmore, “An International Congress of Comparative Law in 1931”, in Illinois Late Revieu', 24 (1929-1930), 656-665.
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