| Affiliation: | * Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br, and a Director of its Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Abteilung II, Europaplatz 1, D-7800 Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. This article is based on a text, supplemented by a footnote, of a lecture given by the author in Summer 1989 during a series of meetings at the University of Freiburg on the theme ‘Forty Years of the Basic Law’. The author wishes to thank Mr. G. V. Thomas of the above institute for translating it. |
