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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 fertilization of ideas that is taking place between the Common and Civil law system 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.
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 June 2002
| List of Contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Influence of Europe on Public Law in the United Kingdom | p. 11 |
| A New Common Law for Europe | p. 27 |
| Our Debt to Europe: Past, Present and Future | p. 37 |
| A New Jus Commune Europaeum and the Importance of the Common Law | p. 67 |
| Interpretation: Legal Texts and their Landscape | p. 79 |
| Managing the European Union: For Better or for Worse? | p. 91 |
| Common Principles of Corporate Governance in Europe? | p. 105 |
| The Additional Responsibilities of the Judiciary in the New Millennium | p. 133 |
| The Protection of Human Rights in Germany | p. 153 |
| The Response of the French Constitutional Court to the Growing Importance of International Law | p. 163 |
| Judicial Protection of the Citizen under European Law | p. 195 |
| Some reflections on the First Year of Operation of the "New" European Court of Human Rights | p. 215 |
| Preliminary Reflections on Fundamental Rights as the Basis of a Common European Law | p. 225 |
| Coming Together--the Future | p. 239 |
| Appendix | p. 251 |
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ISBN: 9781841130682
ISBN-10: 1841130680
Series: Clifford Chance Lectures
Audience:
BAC
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 1st April 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 15.9
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.48
Edition Number: 1
