Institute of Global Law

New Co-operation agreement with the Institute for Competition and Commercial Law at the University of Bonn

The agreement is meant to promote an initiative supported by the Lord Chancellor's Department the aim of which is to encourage a greater exchange of ideas and co-operation between commercial judges of the European Union.

The project will initially be co-ordinated by the Hon Mr Justice Colman, the Lord Chancellor's Department represented by Mr Alasdair Wallace, the French Court of Cassation represented by Conseiller Dominique Hascher, representatives of the German Bundesgerichtshof working with Professor Klaus Hopt (one of Germany's leading commercial lawyers and a Director of the Max Planck Institute) and Professors Michael Bridge and Ian Fletcher on behalf of the Institute of Global Law.

The aim of the founding group is to organise a series of discussion conferences for commercial court judges of EU Member States and the accession countries directed to topics of immediate significant interest in the field of commercial law and its administration.