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The Coming Together of the Common Law and the Civil Law
By
Basil Markesinis,
Description
What makes a great
book? If the determining factors are the content,authorship and
timing of publication then this collection of essays from some of
Europe’s most eminent judges and jurists satisfies all three
criteria. Readers will here find 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 new millennium. In a
thoughtful and predominantly comparative manner the distinguished
speakers explore the cross fertilisation of ideas that is 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, the 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 the organiser of the
conference, Professor Basil Markesinis, Director of the Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law. The book commences with a
Foreword by Keith Clark, Senior Partner of the multinational law
firm, Clifford Chance, who have sponsored the conference. This is a
unique book about legal practice in the increasingly integrated world
of tomorrow.
Sir Basil
Markesinis,QC, 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.
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