"Editor's Note" [2008] ELECD 219; in Moser, Philip; Sawyer, Katrine (eds), "Making Community Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008)

Book Title: Making Community Law

Editor(s): Moser, Philip; Sawyer, Katrine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847201379

Section Title: Editor's Note

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Editors' note
The inspirational ideas of The Rt Hon. Professor Sir Francis Jacobs are
collected here for the first time in one volume, in a book that has emerged out
of a UKAEL conference held at the Middle Temple on 30 June 2006 in cele-
bration of Sir Francis's eighteen years as Advocate General at the European
Court of Justice.
We are pleased that it has been possible to collect the thoughts of fourteen
leading practitioners and academics in the field of EU law, and in particular
that the book includes contributions by both Sir Francis's predecessor and
successor at the Court. Each chapter deals with a discrete topic, ranging from
human rights to the temporal limitation of Court judgments and from compe-
tition to citizenship. The development and current state of EU law is discussed
and described by specialist authors, with specific reference to the opinions of
Francis Jacobs. Each author also expresses his or her own views as to the
future development of the law in their area. The majority of the contributions
are based on the authors' lectures at the June 2006 conference, whilst Chapters
8 and 9 have been written specially for this book.
In our Introduction we aim to give a flavour of the chapters that follow it
and to distil the essence of what makes a Francis Jacobs opinion. In the Annex
to this book the reader will find a list of Sir Francis's opinions from 1988 to
2005.
We would ...