European Journal of Law Reform

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Editorial	Editorial: Taking Law Reform Seriously

Article	Law Reform: A New Idea for International Lawyers
Authors	Robert Sir Jennings
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Robert Sir Jennings
Former President, International Court of Justice, The Hague.

Article	Proposals for Improving the Quality of European and National Legislation
Authors	Alfred E. Kellermann
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Alfred E. Kellermann
General Secretary of the TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague; Senior Consultant and Lecturer in the Law of the EU.

Article	Towards a European Law - The Contribution of Law Faculties to Reform and Unification of Private Law
Authors	Peter Schlechtriem
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Peter Schlechtriem
Professor Dr. Dr.h.c., Director, Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Abt. I, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br. The title of this article is, of course, a homage to all those colleagues who have, on various occasions, expressed their favourable views about the movement towards a European Civil Code, see, for example, Professor Ewoud Hondius and his many strong arguments and contributions in ‘European Contract Law: The Contribution of the Dutch’ in Europäisches Vertragsrecht (Hans-Leo Weyers (ed.)) (Baden-Baden, 1997), p. 45 et seq., with many references to his various articles and contributions; see also Peter-Christian Müller-Graff and his valuable ‘Private Law Unification by Means other than of Codification’ in Towards a European Civil Code (Arthur S. Hartkamp (ed.)) (Nijmegen, 1994), p. 19 et seq.

Article	From Combat to Contract: ‘What Does the Constitution Constitute?’
Authors	Boštjan M. Zupančič
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Boštjan M. Zupančič
Lecture delivered at Harvard Law School, 9 February 1998; Boštjan M. Zupančič, dipl. iur. (Lab.), LL.M., SJD (Harv), Professor of Law, Justice of the Slovene Constitutional Court, Member of the UN Committee against Torture. Since 1998 Justice on the European Court of Human Rights. ® Boštjan M. Zupančič, 1999.

Article	The Hague Child Abduction Convention: Past Accomplishments, Future Challenges
Authors	Carol S. Bruch
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Carol S. Bruch
© Carol S. Bruch 1999. Professor of Law and Chair of the doctoral programme in Human Development, University of California, Davis. This article also appears as a chapter in The Globalization of Child Law: The Role of the Hague Conventions (S. Detrick and P. Vlaardingerbroek (eds.)) (forthcoming). For their support of my research, I am grateful to the Fulbright award programme and to the law department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For sharing their expertise, I thank those many professionals and scholars I have consulted in Denmark, England, Israel, Jordan and Sweden. Lynn Welchman and Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg were notable for sharing their English translations of foreign legal materials, while Professor Stephen Goldstein and Judge Yaacov Zemach of Jerusalem and Advocates Asma Khader and Saws an Is'haq and social worker Anaam Asha of Amman deserve special thanks for opening many doors for me and serving as interpreters. For excellent research assistance, my appreciation goes to James Anthony and Jill Jackson. I am, of course, solely responsible for any errors or omissions.

Article	An Approach to Legal Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: The European Bank's Model Law on Secured Transactions
Authors	Jan-Hendrik Röver
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Jan-Hendrik Röver
LL.M. (London), Rechtsanwalt and Barrister, Visiting Fellow King's College London, Centre of European Law.

Article	Is the World Trade Organization in Need of Ecological Reform? - A Close Look at the Existing Proposals by the European Parliament
Authors	Andreas R. Ziegler
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Andreas R. Ziegler
Dr. rer. publ. et lic. iur. (St. Gall), LL.M. (EUI), Graduate of the Academy of European Law (Florence) and International Law (The Hague). Lecturer at the University of St. Gall and currently visiting lecturer at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).

Article	The Reform of Italian Private International Law
Authors	Irene Grassi
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Irene Grassi
Attorney (procuratore legale) with Derra, Meyer & Partner, Bologna. This work is dedicated, with lasting affection, to the memory of Professor Massimo Magagni of the University of Bologna. His devotion to the study and the teaching of International Law remains an example for many.

Article	Comprehensive Pension Reform in Estonia
Authors	Ardo H. Hansson
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Ardo H. Hansson
Former Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Government ad hoc Expert Commission on Social Policy Reform. The views expressed are those of the author, and may not express the official views of the Government of Estonia.

Article	The Stanford Programme in International Legal Studies (SPILS) - An Alternative to the ‘Classical’ LL.M. Programme
Authors	Ludger Radermacher
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Ludger Radermacher
Fellow, Stanford Programme in International Legal Studies.

Book Review	Hein Kötz, Abschluss, Gültigkeit und Inhalt des Vertrages, die Beteiligung Dritter am Vertrag, (Vol. 1), Hein Kötz and Axel Flessner, Europäisches Vertragsrecht, Tübingen (J.CB. Mohr (ed.)) (1996)
Authors	Müller-Chen Dr. Markus

Müller-Chen Dr. Markus

Book Review	Noticeboard: A Competition about the European Parliament's Electoral Procedure

Eleven Journals

European Journal of Law Reform

Editorial: Taking Law Reform Seriously

Law Reform: A New Idea for International Lawyers

Proposals for Improving the Quality of European and National Legislation

Towards a European Law - The Contribution of Law Faculties to Reform and Unification of Private Law

From Combat to Contract: ‘What Does the Constitution Constitute?’

The Hague Child Abduction Convention: Past Accomplishments, Future Challenges

An Approach to Legal Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: The European Bank's Model Law on Secured Transactions

Is the World Trade Organization in Need of Ecological Reform? - A Close Look at the Existing Proposals by the European Parliament

The Reform of Italian Private International Law

Comprehensive Pension Reform in Estonia

The Stanford Programme in International Legal Studies (SPILS) - An Alternative to the ‘Classical’ LL.M. Programme

Hein Kötz, Abschluss, Gültigkeit und Inhalt des Vertrages, die Beteiligung Dritter am Vertrag, (Vol. 1), Hein Kötz and Axel Flessner, Europäisches Vertragsrecht, Tübingen (J.CB. Mohr (ed.)) (1996)

Noticeboard: A Competition about the European Parliament's Electoral Procedure

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