Institute of Global Law

On Monday, 11 October 2004, Professor Basil Markesinis QC, FBA, Chairman of the Institute of Global Law, was formally received by the Insitut de France (French Academy) as its new Corresponding Fellow. He was awarded by the former President of the Academy, Ambassador Alain Plantey, the insignia of Commandeur de la Legion d' Honneur, conferred upon him by the President of France for forty years of services to French and European Law.

Among those present at the ceremony were the former Prime Minister Pierre Messmer, Chancellor of the Institut de France; M. Baulieu, the President of the Institut de France and the Académie des Sciences; M. Albert, the President of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques; M. Hauterives, the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Beau Arts; the Presidents of the Academies of Aix, Angers, and Besançon; Professor Rodolfo Sacco of the Academia dei Lincei of Rome.

Former Ministers of Justice Jean Foyer, and Allain Toubon, former Minister of Europe Mme Noelle Lenoir, and former Minister of Finance, Stephanos Manos, Member of the Greek Parliament.

M. Guy Canivet, First President of the Cour de Cassation, M. Jean Burgelin, Procureur Général and M. Régis de Gouttes, Premier Avocat Généreral.

M. le Conseiller Dutheillet de Lamothe represented the Conseil Constitutionnel, President Carl Baudenbacher the EFTA Court, Lord Justice Potter, Gray‚s Inn, Professor Michael Bridge, the Provost of UCL. The Royal Belgian Academy was represented by its former President, Professor Marcel Storme. Professor Martin Matthews represented the Oxford Law Faculty, Dean Hubert Bocken, the Law Faculty of Ghent, Professor Guido Alpa, FBA, and Professor Miquel Martin-Casals, the Law Faculties of Genoa, Rome, and Girona/Spain, Mr David Scorey and Mr David Grief represented Essex Court Chambers.