Hessel Yntema and The Muezzin's Call
In a way, I feel bad for Hessel Yntema. A most esteemed professor of comparative law at the University of Michigan, really helped put the very notion of comparative law on the map in the American legal academy, and he died in 1966.
None of this is anything to feel sorry for, the real problem I think for poor Professor Yntema is his name is associated with a prize given to a young comparatist under 40 who has written what is deemed by some esteemed panel of experts to be the best publication in the American Journal of Comparative Law in any given year. What that means is that while the panel speaks of "Hessel Yntema" in hushed tones, it can only go to people who by virtue of their date of birth have probably not heard of Hessel Yntema.
Though I think once you are honored with it, as I was (I just heard) for this past year of 2008, you do end up googling his name and then developing a new found respect, so I suppose some good does come out of it.
For those interested who haven't read it, I got the prize for the article in the attached link below.
I promise in the next post to talk about something other than myself. . . .
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014670
None of this is anything to feel sorry for, the real problem I think for poor Professor Yntema is his name is associated with a prize given to a young comparatist under 40 who has written what is deemed by some esteemed panel of experts to be the best publication in the American Journal of Comparative Law in any given year. What that means is that while the panel speaks of "Hessel Yntema" in hushed tones, it can only go to people who by virtue of their date of birth have probably not heard of Hessel Yntema.
Though I think once you are honored with it, as I was (I just heard) for this past year of 2008, you do end up googling his name and then developing a new found respect, so I suppose some good does come out of it.
For those interested who haven't read it, I got the prize for the article in the attached link below.
I promise in the next post to talk about something other than myself. . . .
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014670
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