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"Preface" [2008] ELECD 221; 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: Preface

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Preface
The Rt Hon. The Lord Slynn of Hadley*
The papers published in this book reflect and expand on speeches at a confer-
ence held in the Middle Temple on 30 June 2006. It was a warm, friendly, at
times jolly, occasion when former colleagues and students of Francis Jacobs
met to pay tribute to his work and to celebrate the Knighthood conferred on
him on retirement as an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.
Only a few people's career in the law in this country have been so devoted
to matters European. He began his academic work of course on a broader (or
should it be narrower?) basis ­ jurisprudence at Glasgow and `law' at the
London School of Economics. But the attraction of `Europe' for him was
evident from the beginning and it is in retrospect not surprising that he felt the
urge to work at a European institution. When he was ready for that, however,
the European Communities Act 1972 was not in force and so the right place to
go, perhaps the only appropriate place for him to go in 1969, was to the
Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. It was
there that I first met him during the early cases in which the United Kingdom
was a party or an intervener and he was a very valuable contact to ask about
the procedures which the English team had to follow and which obviously
were very new to ...