In 2008, the English Law Society issued a leaflet entitled “England and Wales, jurisdiction of choice” to promote the choice of English law and the choice of England as a jurisdictional forum to foreign corporate managers. In passing, the leaflet was openly critical of the quality of the civil law. A grouping of German...

The brochure entitled “Continental law: global, legally certain, economic, flexible”, drafted jointly by German and French jurists, was officially submitted on 7 February, 2011 in Berlin to Mrs. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Federal Minister of Justice and on 9 February, 2011 in Paris to Mr. Michel Mercier, “Keeper of the Seals”, Minister of Justice and Freedoms. To...