The Coming Together of the Common Law and the Civil Law

Description

This volume collects together the expanded versions of the speeches given at a one-day conference in London to mark, from a legal point of view, the beginning of the 21st century. In a comparative manner, the speakers explore the cross-fertilization of ideas taking place between the common and civil law systems in such important topics as human rights, commercial law and comparative methodology. The contributors include: Lords Irvine, Bingham, Woolf, Steyn and Goff; the President of the Court of the European Communities, Dr Iglesias; the President of the Court of Human Rights, Dr Wildhaber; the President of the German Constitutional Court, Professor Limbach; Justices Lenoir and Mirabelli, respectively of the French and Italian Constitutional Courts; Professor Walter van Gerven, former Advocate General of the Court of the European Communities; Professor Klaus Hopt, Co-Director of the Max-Planck Institute of Hamburg; Professor Christian von Bar, Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Osnabruck; and Professor Basil Markenisis, Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Sir Basil Markesinis,KC, LL.D. (Cantab.) DCL (Oxon) D. Iur h.c. (Ghent, Paris I (Sorbonne) and Munich), is Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London and Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.

This slender but absorbing volume, edited by one of the worlds leading comparative lawyers, brings together a collection of papers presented by distinguished judges and academicsThis collection of essays, elegant and instructive, offers a rich harvest for all those who are interested in the way in which the development of a European ius commune may go hand in hand with the continuance of the legal cultures and traditions of the different European legal systems -- Roy Goode * Uniform Law Review/Revue de Droit Uniforme *