ABSTRACT
Accuracy in the legal thinking on the European Union may be lost in translation. In the latest Liber Amicorum to a lawyer – in honour of the Dane, Claus
Gulmann – Peter Biering has written an essay in Danish titled in English: ‘The Court and the Napoleon’.1 Gulmann has recently retired from the position as a judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) serving from 1994 until 2006 – formerly functioning as Advocate General. Originally he held the chair as professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen. Biering is presently a partner at the private law firm engaged as the permanent Legal Advisor to the Danish Government. Before that he was a senior diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he conducted a considerable number of cases before the ECJ and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (CFI).
