EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW BEYOND THE COMMON FRAME OF REFERENCE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF REINHARD ZIMMERMANN. Ed by Antoni Vaquer Groningen: Europa Law Publishing (www.europalawpublishing.com), European Studies in Private Law vol 3, 2008. xiv + 217 pp. ISBN 9789076871936. €49.
| Pages | 351-353 |
| DOI | 10.3366/E1364980909001607 |
| Date | 01 May 2009 |
| Author | Martin Hogg |
| Published date | 01 May 2009 |
This work contains the published papers of a conference held at the University of Lleida in Catalonia in 2007 to pay tribute to the immense contribution to European private law of Professor Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, especially through his seminal work
The work begins with a contribution from Zimmermann himself on legal history and comparative law, in which he reminds us of the fundamental importance to modern comparative scholars of understanding legal history: “an understanding of the past is the first and essential prerequisite for devising appropriate solutions for the present day and for the future” (13). The contribution of Zimmermann's own work in bringing the lessons of the past to bear upon contemporary legal scholarship is discussed in the succeeding three chapters, including an analysis by Hector MacQueen of the significance of Zimmermann's work in developing Scottish doctrinal private law scholarship.
These opening chapters will be of interest to those seeking to review the important contribution made by Zimmermann to the development of a modern
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