John Bell is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and is an authority on French Law. He taught the subject extensively in Oxford and Leeds and has written major books on French constitutional law, administrative law and the judicial profession. He has been a visiting professor inParis and Le Mans. Simon Whittaker is Fellow and Tutor in Law, St. John's College, Oxford and Professor of European Comparative Law, University of Oxford. He has published widely in the areas of contract and tort law in English law and in French law and on EC legislation harmonizing these areas. He has taughtcomparative law for over twenty years and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Paris… I Pantheon-Sorbonne and Paris II Pantheon Assas. Sophie Boyron is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches French law and public law.