Fingerposts and Armsäulen:Comparative legal history’s manifold itineraries to legal culture

Abstract

No French conference without La synthèse. The reader who wishes to take a short cut to these Proceedings may be advised to peruse the summaries provided by the authors, which will offer a far more reliable guide than the following concluding remarks. The point of the latter is no more than an interim stock-taking, checking how the separate itineraries followed by the contributors in different jurisdictions, at different times of history and in different areas of the law, may indicate how pervasive evidence of legal culture is along the way, and yet how elusive legal culture remains as a set destination of the journey – a collective journey in this case, but along diverse paths.