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On the Role of Comparative Law in Domestic Legal Scholarship

Abstract

The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, whose 25th anniversary this jubilee book marks, is not merely a leading Nordic research centre in the fields of commercial law and corporate governance and a hub bridging the gap between scholarship and legal practice. It is also a leading centre of academic cooperation, both within the Nordic region and internationally. I first got to know the SCCL and had the pleasure of collaborating with colleagues there as part of the vibrant and multi-layered exchange it maintains with the University of Oxford (mediated through the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Christ Church). Out of these activities grew a lasting connection which has since inspired new links between the SCCL and the University of Bonn. I take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the SCCL and its members for their enthusiasm in building and maintaining scholarly links, for their support particularly of junior researchers, and especially for their academic friendship.