Substantive law is of no avail if there are barriers to legal procedure. These can be of a financial, a bureaucratic or an organizational nature. At the 11th Meeting of German and French Jurists in 2004, the problems in these areas were discussed from the standpoint of history, civil law, labor law, administrative law, fiscal law and arbitration.

One of the most important aspects of law is the organization of dispute settlement procedures and the guarantee of legal protection by the state. If barriers are to be found here, substantive law will be of no avail. Such obstacles can be of a financial, a bureaucratic or an organizational nature. Finding a pragmatic balance between an effective guarantee of the law on the one hand and the limitations of public funds on the other hand as well as between legal tradition and modern efficiency is one of the main tasks of legal policy today. At the 11th Meeting of German and French Jurists in 2004, the problems in these areas were discussed from the standpoint of history, civil law, labor law, administrative law, fiscal law and arbitration and solutions to these problems were sought.

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Geboren 1943; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Würzburg und Freiburg/Br.; 1970 Promotion; 1977 Habilitation; 1995-2011 Professor in Freiburg/Br. und Direktor des Instituts für Wirtschaftsrecht, Arbeitsrecht und Sozialrecht; 2002-04 Dekan der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät.

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Mit Beiträgen von:
Birgit Bachmann - Uwe Blaurock - Cyrille David - Frédérique Ferrand - Michel Fromont - Sebastian Krebber - Lothar Michael - Nicolas Rontchevsky - Maxi Scherer - Rolf Stürner