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dcni Xarurrccht das heraiislicst, was or zinor hineingclegt har.'"' It is iny conviction tliat the budding lawvcr needs to learn that the nn)ral dut\ ot a lawwer is to defend one's neighbour and not an ahstract entit\ coinenienth’ labelled 'law'. With such a ZiclsctziDig, the historian needs eniplo\- neither circular reasoning nor spurious cansal connections. rhis brief section on naturalism is one e.xample of how one can cwtract some hints as to a legal historian's legal theorw Inetwpage of a legal bistort bespeaks a \ iew of the law, howet er subtly. It remains to sort such examples out in order for themto be properly analysed. I low ought one to construct a concept of law.^ I low ought one to construct a history for law students.- To this we may ask how cuiturall\ and linguisticalK determined the w ritingof history is and w hat the consetjuences are. I low do histories \ ar\' depending on language chosen.- Is national origin a significant factor.- I low does national huwer cidture figure.^ Should histories he conscioush’ differently constructed depending on the particular context in which the intended lawwer will figure.- Ought a hook on french history w ritten for a f'rench law student he different from one w ritten with an fingiish student in mind.- After all, we perceixe f'rench lawyer culture to differ from finglish and one max’ therefore xerx’ xxell argue that each aspiring finglish and fVench laxx yer respectix elx’ ought for their edification read a hook xx ritten for the laxx x er realitx' the author xvould expect to one day he theirs. 'I'he questions can he multiplied. I lerein lies the problem (and possibility) of legal historiographx’ and the issue xxhich {prompted the embarking upon of this project: hoxx ought xxe to XX rite a historx’.- Iloxx should xve translate the past for our future laxvxers.- 31

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