Baudenbacher, Carl --- "Foreword: Carl Baudenbacher" [2011] ELECD 766; in Govaere, Inge; Quick, Reinhard; Bronckers, Marco (eds), "Trade and Competition Law in the EU and Beyond" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Trade and Competition Law in the EU and Beyond

Editor(s): Govaere, Inge; Quick, Reinhard; Bronckers, Marco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857935663

Section Title: Foreword: Carl Baudenbacher

Author(s): Baudenbacher, Carl

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Foreword
Carl Baudenbacher*
I am deeply honoured that the editors of this unusually rich book have
invited me to write a foreword. Much has been said about Jacques
Bourgeois' highly successful career as a Commission official, a GATT and
WTO panellist, a professor at universities in several European countries
and in the United States, and an attorney at law advising and representing
clients in what turned out to be landmark cases. In fact, this whole
Festschrift bears witness of that. I would like to add some rather personal
remarks.
I met Jacques for the first time at a relatively late stage of our lives in his
Club de Warande in Brussels. He had invited me to lunch and within an
hour I had convinced him to teach in the University of St Gallen's
Executive Master of Business Law programme. For a number of years he
acted as a chairman of the programme's one-week WTO law module,
which at the time was held in Geneva. I was impressed with his legal
knowledge and his flair for economics, but also, and in particular, with his
independent mind. He obviously did not care about whether his views
were shared by the powerful or not, but went for what he thought was
right. As examples, I may mention his position on anti-dumping or on
international exhaustion of intellectual property rights. But I was equally
struck by Jacques' humbleness, by the way he treated the students (all
practitioners in their mid- ...