The Rise of Comparative Law: a Challenge for Legal Education in Europe 

Author: Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Professor of Law University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II, November 2007, 25p. Binding: brochure. ISBN: 978-90-76871-89-9. Price: €15, $26. Series: Walter van Gerven Lectures (7). Language: English.

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About the Seventh Walter van Gerven Lecture

The seventh van Gerven Lecture “The Rise of Comparative Law: a Challenge for Legal Education in Europe” has been delivered by Prof. Dr. Fauvarque-Cosson on 29 November 2007. Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson is Professor of Law at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Her field of expertise is in comparative law, contract law and conflict of laws.

Over the past years, academics have reacquired a significant role in the European law-making process. A truly European legal research, based on various networks has developed. This Lecture examines the discrepancy between, on the one hand, the rise of European and comparative law and, on the other hand, the limited means allocated to the supranational education of future jurists. Legal insularity is no longer an option. Comparative law should therefore no longer be regarded as a purely academic and optional discipline but as an effective way to lead professors, judges and legislators out of national legal isolation. Moreover, the strength and durability of a truly European legal thinking depends largely on the comparative dimension of education.

The seventh van Gerven Lecture was organised in close cooperation with the Ius Commune Research School, which unites legal scholars from the law faculties of the universities of Leuven, Maastricht, Utrecht and Amsterdam. The Lecture was delivered during the opening session of the School’s twelfth annual Ius Commune Congress in Liège.

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