Sir Basil Markesinis QC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Professor Jorg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.

• 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist)4. South Africa5. The Situation in Germany6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows— The United States and France7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers

Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une ecriture elegante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberte de ton rejouissante, il offre au lecteur une methode fondee sur l'experience et un tresor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers developpements dans le domaine du droit compare. P. Marchal Revue de droit international et de droit compare 2009 No. 4 Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law. Carsten Gerner-Beuerle King's Law Journal Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009

Sir Basil Markesinis QC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Professor Jorg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.

• 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist)4. South Africa5. The Situation in Germany6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows— The United States and France7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers

Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une ecriture elegante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberte de ton rejouissante, il offre au lecteur une methode fondee sur l'experience et un tresor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers developpements dans le domaine du droit compare. P. Marchal Revue de droit international et de droit compare 2009 No. 4 Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law. Carsten Gerner-Beuerle King's Law Journal Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009

Sir Basil Markesinis QC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Professor Jorg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.

• 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Era of Societal Needs3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist)4. South Africa5. The Situation in Germany6. The Reluctance to Borrow Ideas from Abroad: Two Strange Bedfellows— The United States and France7. The Focused Approach in Public Law: A Look at English and French Law8. Another Lesson on Packaging: The Grey Zone where Tort Law Overlaps with Administrative Law9. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex10. Comparative Law in Commercial Practice11. Reflecting on the Future: The Subject and its Teachers

Voici donc un livre passionnant, tant par son contenu que par sa forme. D'une ecriture elegante mais claire et ferme, d'une liberte de ton rejouissante, il offre au lecteur une methode fondee sur l'experience et un tresor d'informations qui le met au fait des derniers developpements dans le domaine du droit compare. P. Marchal Revue de droit international et de droit compare 2009 No. 4 Markesinis' and Fedtke's excellence of scholarship and breadth of erudition is beyond doubt, and so is the richness of the topics dealt with in Engaging with Foreign Law. Carsten Gerner-Beuerle King's Law Journal Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2009