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Remarks at the Opening of the Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the German Law Journal – The German Law Journal as “Lived” Comparative Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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It is proper that we have come to Berlin to celebrate this remarkable transatlantic enterprise. It is true that the German Law Journal was born in Karlsruhe and that it emerged in its current form – as an online, monthly, peer-reviewed, English-language forum for commentary on developments in German, European and International law – at the University of Frankfurt. But one advantage of Internet publishing is the detailed information editors can gather on their readers, including the almost absurd statistic that tracks the frequency with which the German Law Journal website is accessed from each of Germany's Postleitzahl districts. Berlin is the right place for this event because we know from that data that the largest block of our German readers, by far, is based here in the German capital.

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GLJ@TEN – Festakt Remarks
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Copyright © 2009 by German Law Journal GbR 

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