Collection of Essays - Tapa dura

This collection contains a selection of essays by the late Professor Kurt Lipstein, who emigrated from Germany to Cambridge in 1934. It focuses on his central works on the general principles of private international law, which are characterized by his comparative approach and his attention to the many relationships between conflicts of law and questions of public international and European law. It includes Lipstein's first studies of the conflict of laws as well as his powerful Hague lecture on the basic principles of private international law and his influencing articles on the development of the conflict of laws through international courts and arbitral tribunals.

Professor Dr Heinz-Peter Mansel is the director of the Institute of Foreign Private and Private International Law at the University of Cologne and holds the Chair for Private Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law and Civil Procedure Law. He holds a guest professorship at Wuhan University, China and the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Fellow of the European Law Institute. He was a Legal Expert for the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament (Successions and Wills, 2005), lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law (1998, 2008) and President of the German Council of Private International Law (Scientific Council in connection with the German Ministry of Justice). He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Societa Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. He is managing editor of the journal Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax).