European Journal of Law Reform

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Article	Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture: The Legal Orders of the European Union and of the Member States: Peculiarities and Influences in Drafting
Authors	Jean-Claude Piris
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Jean-Claude Piris
Director-General, Legal Service, Council of the European Union. The views expressed in this lecture are the author's personal views and do not in any way commit the position of the Council of the European Union. The author thanks Mr Tito Gallas, Head of the Section of the Lawyer-Linguists of the Council's Legal Service, for his assistance. This lecture was delivered on 8 November 2004. It has been published in French under the title Union européenne: comment rédiger une législation de qualité dans 20 langues et pour 25 Etats membres, 121 Revue du droit public 457-491 (2005).

Article	The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination as a Human Right
Authors	Boštjan M. Zupančič
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Boštjan M. Zupančič
Boštjan M. Zupančič, dipl.iur. (Lab.), LL.M., S.J.D. (Harv.), Professor of Law (US and Slovenia), former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, former Vice-Chair of the UN Committee against Torture, President of the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights. E-mail: bostjan.zupancic@echr.coe.int.

Article	Implementation of Legislative Evaluation in Europe: Current Models and Trends
Authors	Ulrich Karpen
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Ulrich Karpen
Prof. Dr. iur. Universitätsprofessor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Article	Language Problems in the European Union: Accommodations for Twenty-Five Countries and Twenty Official languages
Authors	Christie Bodnar Swiss
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Christie Bodnar Swiss
B.B.A. University of Notre Dame, 2002; M.A. Bryn Mawr College, 2003; J.D. candidate Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, 2006.

Article	The Working Method of the Commission on European Family Law
Authors	Katharina Boele-Woelki
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Katharina Boele-Woelki
Professor of Comparative Law, Private International Law and Family Law at the University of Utrecht. This article was published previously in K. Boele-Woelki (Ed.), Common Core and Better Law in European Family Law, European Family Law Series No. 10, 15-38 (2005) and is reprinted with minor editorial modifications with kind permission of the publisher Intersentia-Antwerp.

Article	Methodological Aspects of the Harmonisation of Family Law
Authors	Ingeborg Schwenzer
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Ingeborg Schwenzer
This article was published previously in K. Boele-Woelki (Ed.), Perspectives for the Unification and Harmonisation of Family Law in Europe, European Family Law series No. 4, 143-158 (2003) and is reprinted with minor editorial modifications with kind permission of the publisher Intersentia-Antwerp. The author is Professor of Private Law, University of Basel Law School. The author is grateful to Professor Dr. h.c. Carol Bruch (University of California, Davis, US) for a critical reading of the manuscript as well as to lic. iur. Michelle Cottier MA (Basel) for her valuable research assistance.

Article	The ‘Better Law’ Approach and the Harmonisation of Family Law
Authors	Masha Antokolskaia
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Masha Antokolskaia
This article was published previously in K. Boele-Woelki (Ed.), Perspectives for the Unification and Harmonisation of Family Law in Europe, European Family Law Series No. 4, 159-182 (2003) and is reprinted with minor editorial modifications with kind permission of the publisher Intersentia-Antwerp. The author is Professor of Private Law and Family Law at the Free University of Amsterdam. This article expresses the personal opinion of the author and not that of the Commission on European Family Law. This research has been made possible by a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Article	Are Wedding Bells Ringing for Same-Sex Marriages? The Legal Trends and Social Perspectives of Europe, Canada and the United States
Authors	Shirley C. Ogata
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Shirley C. Ogata
J.D. 2005, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.

Article	Family Law Reform in Australia: A Fractured Continuum
Authors	Frank Bates
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Frank Bates
Professor of Law, University of Newcastle (NSW). Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Sheffield, September 2004.

Article	Can the European Union Draft Constitution be Considered a Constitution by the People and for the People?
Authors	Saloni Kantaria
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Saloni Kantaria
Graduate of the University of Sydney Law School. I would like to thank Professor Helen Irving of Sydney University Law School and Professor Frank Emmert for their advice and guidance in the preparation of this paper.

Article	Shades of Gray: The Impact of World-Wide Aging on Elder Abuse and Neglect in the United States and France
Authors	S. Kyleen Nash
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S. Kyleen Nash
J.D., 2005, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis; B.S., Interdisciplinary Social Science, Michigan State University, 2001.

Article	The Achilles Heel of Estonia's Ownership Reform: The Case of Emigrants
Authors	Tanel Kerikmäe
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Tanel Kerikmäe
Tanel Kerikmäe is Dean of the Law School and Jean Monnet Professor at the International University Concordia Audentes and President of the Estonian European Community Studies Association. The author wishes to thank his colleague from the Research Centre “Supralaw”, Mr. Kari Käsper.

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European Journal of Law Reform

Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture: The Legal Orders of the European Union and of the Member States: Peculiarities and Influences in Drafting

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination as a Human Right

Implementation of Legislative Evaluation in Europe: Current Models and Trends

Language Problems in the European Union: Accommodations for Twenty-Five Countries and Twenty Official languages

The Working Method of the Commission on European Family Law

Methodological Aspects of the Harmonisation of Family Law

The ‘Better Law’ Approach and the Harmonisation of Family Law

Are Wedding Bells Ringing for Same-Sex Marriages? The Legal Trends and Social Perspectives of Europe, Canada and the United States

Family Law Reform in Australia: A Fractured Continuum

Can the European Union Draft Constitution be Considered a Constitution by the People and for the People?

Shades of Gray: The Impact of World-Wide Aging on Elder Abuse and Neglect in the United States and France

The Achilles Heel of Estonia's Ownership Reform: The Case of Emigrants

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