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Citation: 35 Mercer L. Rev. 419 1983-1984 Content downloaded/printed from HeinOnline () Wed Feb 29 23:21:46 2012 -- Your use of this HeinOnline PDF indicates your acceptance of HeinOnlines Terms and Conditions of the license agreement available at /HOL/License -- The search text of this PDF is generated from uncorrected OCR text. -- To obtain permission to use this article beyond the scope of your HeinOnline license, please use: /ccc/basicSearch.do? operation=gosearchType=0 lastSearch=simpleall=ontitleOrStdNo=0025-987X LEAD ARTICLES A Page of Historyt by Friedrich K. Juenger* It has been said that conflict of laws may be one of the rare legal subjects about which a page of history is worth less than a blank sheet. That assessment is attributed to some conflicts specialists who are under the impression that history-particularly an exaggerated reverence for an ancient body of concepts and dogmas-may be in large part responsi- ble for contemporary difficulties. Whatever damage the pasts dead hand may have done, it appears worthwhile to look at the subject from a historical perspective, if only to shed some of the exaggerated reverence for concepts and dogmas-new and old-that are responsible for the con- fused state of current American conflicts law. t Copyright 0 1984 by Friedrich K. Juenger. * Professor of Law, University of California at Davis. Columbia University (J.D., 1960); University of Michigan (M.C.L., 1957). Member, American Law Institute; Board of Editors, American Journal of Comparative Law. This article will appear in revised form as pa