Honorary Doctorate for Professor Paul Lagarde and the meeting of the European Group for Private International Law

Abstract

Professor Paul Lagarde is one of the most outstanding contemporary lawyers dealing with private international law. An author of numerous publications in this field, he has been, for the last 60 years, a source of inspiration for scholars around the world. His impactful contributions has been profoundly studied, discussed and cited also in Poland, and in particular in Katowice, which has been the centre for private international scholarship in Poland since the 1970s.