Judicial Recourse to Foreign Law

Sir Basil Markesinis, QC held senior teaching positions in Cambridge and Oxford before being elected to the Chair of Comon and Civil Law of University College London, a post he holds jointly with the Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is one of the world's best known and prolific scholars in comparative law and legal integration, and has received high honours for his work in this field from the presidents of Italy, Germany, France and Greece. In 2005 he was made Knight Bachelor for 'Services to International Legal Relations'. Dr Jorg Fedtke is Reader in Laws at University College London, where he is Director of the Institute of Global Law and is also currently Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005 he was invited to act as an external advisor to the constitutional negotiations in Iraq. His research interests are in constitutional law, administrative law, comparative law and tort law.

• Introduction  1. Setting the Scene  2. A Quick Glance at Seven Jurisdictions  3. When Should Such Dialogue Take Place?  4. Dangers and Obstacles to the Use of Foreign Law  5. Mental Disposition as a Factor Impeding Recourse to Foreign Law  6. Conclusions.  Postscript.  Judicial Commentaries