Edited by Jack Beatson, One of Her Majesty's Judges of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, formerly Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg

Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, formerly Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford

Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA, Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, Hamburg; Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History, University of Regensburg

Contributors:

John Adams, Professor of Law, University of Sheffield
Christian von Bar FBA, Director, Institute of Private International and Comparative Law; Professor of Private Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law, University of Osnabrück
John Bell QC, FBA, Director,Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge
Peter Birks QC, FBA, Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
Sir Lawrence Collins, FBA, Justice of the High Court, Chancery Division
James Crawford SC, FBA, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
Gerhard Dannemann, Professor of British Legal, Economic and Social Structures, Humbolt University, Berlin
Wolfgang Ernst, Professor of Roman Law and Private Law, University of Bonn
Christopher Forsyth, Reader in Public Law, University of Cambridge
Mark Freedland, FBA, Professor of Law, University of Oxford
Tony Honoré, FBA, Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
Roger Hood CBE, QC, Professor of Criminology and Director, Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford
David Ibbetson, FBA Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge
Tony Jolowicz, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of Cambridge
Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki
Kurt Lipstein, QC Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Cambridge
Werner Lorenz, Emeritus Professor of Private Law and Comparative Law, University of Munich
Barry Nicholas FBA, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of Oxford (deceased)
Sir Peter North CBE, QC, FBA Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
Lord Alan Rodger of Earlsferry, FBA Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Mathias Schmoeckel, Professor of Private Law and German Legal History, University of Bonn
Peter Stein, FBA Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge
Stephanie Steinle, Judge at the Regional Court, Munich
Manfred Wiegandt, Attorney, Wareham Mass; formerly of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation
Frank Wooldridge, Emeritus Member of the Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham