General & Miscellaneous Law, Europe - Law, Legal Theory & Philosophy

The Clifford Chance Millennium Lectures, Vol. 5

Name: The Clifford Chance Millennium Lectures, Vol. 5
Author: Basil S. Markesinis
ISBN: 9781841130682

by Basil S. Markesinis

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Overview

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 Europeâ??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.

Synopsis

Judges and jurists from across Europe commemorate the passing of the millennium with expanded versions of presentations they made at a one- day conference in London, presumably held sometime in 2000. They explore the cross-fertilization of ideas now taking place between the common and civil law systems in such areas as human rights, commercial law, and comparative methodology. There is no index. The US distribution is by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR