Dear Colleagues - particularly our U.S. colleagues

 

My impression is that, historically, US judges are more inclined, across the breadth of tort law, than Canadian judges, to refer to the scholarship of academic lawyers. It struck me that the existence of treatises such as the Restatements, and what's involved in their preparation, might be part of the reason for that greater inclination.

 

Views?

 

Best,

 

David Cheifetz