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.

• The influence of Europe on public law in the United Kingdom, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg; a new common law for Europe, Lord Bingham of Cornhill; our debt to Europe - past, present and future, Basil S. Markesinis; a new jus commune Europaeum and the importance of the common law, Christian V. Bar; interpretation - legal texts and their landscape, Lord Steyn; managing the European Union - for better or for worse?, W. van Gerven; common principles of corporate governance in Europe, Klaus J. Hopt; the additional responsibilities of the judiciary in the new millennium, Lord Woolf of Barnes; the protection of human rights in Germany, Jutta Limbach; the response of the French Constitutional court to the growing importance of international law, Noelle Lenoir; judicial protection of the citizen under European law, Gil Carol Rodriguez Iglesias; some reflections on the first year of operation of the "new" European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber; preliminary reflections on fundamental rights as the basis of a common European law, Cesare Mirabelli; coming together - the future, Lord Goff of Chieveley; appendix.

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

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.

• The influence of Europe on public law in the United Kingdom, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg; a new common law for Europe, Lord Bingham of Cornhill; our debt to Europe - past, present and future, Basil S. Markesinis; a new jus commune Europaeum and the importance of the common law, Christian V. Bar; interpretation - legal texts and their landscape, Lord Steyn; managing the European Union - for better or for worse?, W. van Gerven; common principles of corporate governance in Europe, Klaus J. Hopt; the additional responsibilities of the judiciary in the new millennium, Lord Woolf of Barnes; the protection of human rights in Germany, Jutta Limbach; the response of the French Constitutional court to the growing importance of international law, Noelle Lenoir; judicial protection of the citizen under European law, Gil Carol Rodriguez Iglesias; some reflections on the first year of operation of the "new" European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber; preliminary reflections on fundamental rights as the basis of a common European law, Cesare Mirabelli; coming together - the future, Lord Goff of Chieveley; appendix.

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

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.

• The influence of Europe on public law in the United Kingdom, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg; a new common law for Europe, Lord Bingham of Cornhill; our debt to Europe - past, present and future, Basil S. Markesinis; a new jus commune Europaeum and the importance of the common law, Christian V. Bar; interpretation - legal texts and their landscape, Lord Steyn; managing the European Union - for better or for worse?, W. van Gerven; common principles of corporate governance in Europe, Klaus J. Hopt; the additional responsibilities of the judiciary in the new millennium, Lord Woolf of Barnes; the protection of human rights in Germany, Jutta Limbach; the response of the French Constitutional court to the growing importance of international law, Noelle Lenoir; judicial protection of the citizen under European law, Gil Carol Rodriguez Iglesias; some reflections on the first year of operation of the "new" European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber; preliminary reflections on fundamental rights as the basis of a common European law, Cesare Mirabelli; coming together - the future, Lord Goff of Chieveley; appendix.

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