Abstract
It is a pleasure and honour for me to chair the first session of this exploratory workshop, organized by the European Law Institute (ELI) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) in cooperation with the American Law Institute (ALI), on the project of possible European rules of civil procedure. I am not supposed to give an opening address. But at the threshold of this conference, I obviously cannot avoid expressing some thanks, telling of my satisfaction, and sketching out some questions. Some thanks, first, to Sir Francis Jacobs, former president of the ELI, and José Angelo Estrella Faria, secretary-general of Unidroit, for inviting me to chair this public session part of the conference. Their kind invitation gives me the chance to participate in this amazing challenge, which brings together leading experts in the field of civil procedural law and aims to outline a possible model of European rules of civil procedure. On behalf of the International Association of Procedural Law, I wish to congratulate them for their judicious initiative, and I sincerely thank Diana Wallis, who was elected president of the ELI one month ago, and Angelo Estrella Faria for their opening words of welcome.
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