Why a European Law Centre at UNSW?

The ‘Common Market’ of the 1960s has become the ‘European Union’ of today. The European Union is Australia’s largest economic partner, and is of major economic and political significance to the East Asian and Pacific regions. With a population of more than 370 million, the European Union possesses the world’s largest integrated market economy. The Union’s highly developed legal system also provides a fascinating study in institutions and processes of international law being transformed into a quasi-federal constitutional structure.

Most of Australia's legal, political and constitutional traditions originate in Europe and developments in Europe - East and West - continue to have major implications for Australia and its region.

The development of European Community Law has also led to an increasing exchange of ideas between the common law and civil law traditions, and has added a very practical dimension to comparative legal studies.

Notwithstanding the enormous importance of Europe to Australia's past present and future, the European Law Centre is the first institution of its type outside Europe and the United States and is thus the only Southern Hemisphere counterpart to a growing number of similar centres of scholarship.

The School of Law at the University of New South Wales is in a good position to host the Centre, having built an outstanding reputation for legal scholarship and education not only throughout Australia, but also in the Asian and Pacific regions. The European Union is of comparable economic and political importance to countries in those regions, and the European Law Centre at UNSW will be of assistance to scholars and students wishing to develop or extend their study of European law.

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About the European Law Centre and Centre Associatess

 


The following persons are associated with the work of the European Law Centre:
 

Adam Czarnota	Legal strategies of dealing with the past, post-communist constitutionalism, collective memory, time and law.
Mr Lorand Bartels	European Union and international trade.
Prof Richard Bauman	Modern Civil Law Systems (especially French Law, German Law, and Roman-Dutch Law), Roman Law.
Dr Stephen Hall	European Community Law, European Union in International Law, European Human Rights Law, Comparative Public Law.
Dr David Kell	European Intellectual Property Law.
Dr David Kinley	Comparative Constitutional Law, European Human Rights Law, European Community Law.
Prof Martin Krygier	Law, Politics and Society of Eastern Europe.
Ms Anne McNaughton	European Economic Law.
Ms Annette Marfording	German Private and Commercial Law, Comparative Law, European Civil Procedure.
Dr Sarah Pritchard	European Human Rights Law, Comparative Constitutional Law.
Mr Daniel Rowland	French Administrative Law, Administrative Law of the European Community, Comparative European Political Systems.
Prof George Winterton	Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Law (especially Torts, Criminal Law and Public Law of France).

The Centre’s Patron is Judge G. Federico Mancini (Court of Justice of the European Communities). Dr Stephen Hall is the foundation Director of the European Law Centre. The Chairman of the Advisory Board is the Hon Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE, and Professor George Winterton is the Chairman of the Management Committee.



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Professor Martin Krygier
European Law Centre
Faculty of Law
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

Ph: 61 2 9385 2240
Fax: 61 2 9385 1175
Email: m.krygier@unsw.edu.au


Adam Czarnota
European Law Centre
Faculty of Law
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

Ph: 61 2 9385 2255
Fax: 61 2 9385 1175
Email: a.czarnota@unsw.edu.au


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