The Editors : John McEldowney is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick (U.K.). He has worked for the UNDP in China, was the World Bank Visiting Fellow in the Supreme Court of Venezuela in 1999 and the New Zealand Law Foundation Visiting Scholar in 2002. Günter Weick is Professor of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law at the University of Gießen (Germany).