ABSTRACT
Transsystemic legal teaching is a challenge to the western bias against conceiving of law as anything other than that which is positively enacted by the state. Recent critiques of legal philosophers suggest that, beyond the traditional challenges offered by other ways of thinking about law, the decline of the idea of a legal system is already under way. Hart stated that the lawyer will regard his Concept of Law as an "essay in analytical jurisprudence" but that it "may also be regarded as an essay in descriptive sociology". The criteria for application of foreign law are usually geographic ones, a process of localization of events within or without supreme systems, such that the discipline of conflicts of laws is ultimately consistent with the maintenance of systems. Conflict avoidance involves thinking differently about laws and their relations with one another.
