This volume represents the collected and edited papers of the second biennial Oxford Anglo-German law conference held at St. John’s College, Oxford, on 13–15 September 2001. The conference series, jointly organised by leading German and English law firms and the Oxford University Law Faculty and hosted by Oxford, was the brainchild of Nikolas Tarling, and its purpose is to provide a congenial forum for discussion of key issues in fields of mutual inter- est by comparisons and contrasts between English and German law in the con- text of international and European Community developments. The 2001 conference was attended by some 32 delegates and, as in 1999, was marked.
