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Report of the Jury (April 7, 2004) Marie-Claire FOBLETS is working on one of the most important and dynamic areas of legal science of our day. It has the aim to settle problems of modern multicultural and multiconfessional migrant societies. She was one of the first scholars to realize that the legal techniques of International private law inherited from the past were insufficient to cope with the challenges of a society in which people live simultaneously in two or even more legal systems. The most important example of this new situation is the status of Muslim minorities in Western countries. Therefore the Moroccan immigrants in Belgium have been at the center of Marie-Claire FOBLETS’ investigations from the very beginning. The importance of her work lies in the fact that she combines the collection of court decisions with interviews of law practitioners and of the immigrant people concerned. Starting from this basis she maps out concrete solutions. The aim is – in Professor FOBLETS’ words - “to find rules that offer the necessary guarantees to people, allowing them to start and/or continue harmonious social relationships regardless of their continuous mobility between different countries”. The Jury is convinced that Marie-Claire FOBLETS’ concepts show the only realistic way to this goal - a goal which is of paramount significance if Europeans are to live in peace together without giving up what is indispensable for our legal system – the rule of law and recognition of human rights. Jury members :
Professor Emeritus Douwe FOKKEMA
Professor Jane BLOCK
Professor Thomas DE KONINCK
Professor Miguel-Angel DE MARCO
Professor Charles DE WEERT
Professor Eric MASKIN
Professor Thomas METZINGER
Professor Richard POTZ
Professor Dorit RAVID
Professor Emeritus Robert W. THOMSON * * *
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