General Reports to the XVIIth International Congress of Comparative Law (Utrecht, the Netherlands, 16-22 July 2006)

• The National Legal Tradition
  H. Patrick Glenn
  
  
• Legal Limitations on Genetic Research and the Commercialisation of its Results
  Spiros Simitis
  
  
• Precedent and the Law
  Ewoud Hondius
  
  
• Interpretation of Multilingual Legislative Texts
  Antonio Gambaro
  
  
• New Developments in Succession Law
  Sjef van Erp
  
  
• Tensions between Legal, Biological and Social Conceptions of Parentage
  Ingeborg Schwenzer
  
  
• La notion de biens
  Albina Candian
  
  
• La confiance légitime et l’estoppel
  Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson
  
  
• Pure Economic Loss: The Ways to Recovery
  Vernon Valentine Palmer & Mauro Bussani
  
  
• Le contrat sans loi en droit international privé
  Léna Gannagé
  
  
• New Experiences of International Arbitration
  Attila Harmathy
  
  
• Private International Law Aspects Relating to Homosexual Couples
  Gerard-René de Groot
  
  
• La responsabilité civile, pénale et disciplinaire des magistrats
  Marie Goré
  
  
• Access to Justice. A Renewed Global Issue?
  Ugo Mattei
  
  
• Agriculture and the Polluter Pays Principle
  Margaret Rosso Grossman
  
  
• Control and Responsibility of Credit Rating Agencies
  Uwe Blaurock
  
  
• Les restrictions verticales à la concurrence
  Hubert Legal
  
  
• Cyber Consumer Protection and Unfair Competition
  Georges Decocq
  
  
• The Digitising of Literary and Artistic Works
  Josef Drexl & Silke von Lewinski
  
  
• Abusive Advertising on the Internet through Spam: Problems and Solutions
  Phaedon John Kozyris
  
  
• Representation of Employees in Collective Bargaining within the Firm
  Michal Seweryński
  
  
• Liability of Classification Societies
  Anthony M. Antapassis
  
  
• Characteristics of International Administration in Crisis Areas
  Outi Korhonen
  
  
• Constitutional Guarantees of the Independence of the Judiciary
  John Bridge
  
  
• Le référendum constitutionnel
  Jacques Robert
  
  
• The Emergence of a European Constitutional Law
  Rainer Arnold
  
  
• The Legal Position of Migrants
  Yury A. Tikhomirov
  
  
• Legal Means for Eliminating Corruption in the Public Service
  John Bell
  
  
• La précaution en droit administratif
  Michel Pâques
  
  
• The Rule-Making Powers of Independent Administrative Agencies (‘QUANGOs’)
  Yseult Marique
  
  
• Restricting the Legislative Power to Tax: Intersections of Taxation and Constitutional Law
  Henry Ordower
  
  
• Les règles de fond sur la lutte contre le crime organisé
  Jean Pradel
  
  
• Euthanasia and the Criminal Justice System
  Marc Groenhuijsen
  
  
• Plea-Bargaining, Negotiating Confessions and Consensual Resolution of Criminal Cases
  Stephen C. Thaman
  
  
• E-government: A Comparative Study of the Multiple Dimensions of Required Regulatory Change
  Corien Prins