SCCL, the International and the Comparative: Outside Influences and Two Examples197SCCL, the International andthe Comparative: Outside Influencesand Two Examples of Reception

Abstract

The Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL) is celebrating its 25th anniversary and my connection to SCCL goes back almost to its inception. Jan Kleineman, SCCL’s initiator and also Advisor for the DCFR project’s tort law book, thought that the research associate of the project’s working group at the University of Osnabrück should have a research position at SCCL during his stays in Stockholm. This position was also maintained during later research adventures abroad. However, my subsequent employment at the Department of Law at Stockholm University began outside SCCL’s premises. The centre filled to capacity, and it was only a few years later with the latest (or last) expansion that I was given a place.