So good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to this afternoon session.

I'm following that extremely interesting morning session.

I'm delighted to welcome you to the afternoon one,

which promises to be equally inspiring.

This session is going to be divided in two.

In the first part, Professor John Bell will speak first about the changing character of comparative law,

and he will be followed by Professor John Spencer, who will talk about his involvement with cells and the development of EU criminal law.

This first session is going to be moderated by my colleague, Dr. Sophie Jureen, who is a fellow of

Marie Edwards and a lecturer here in the faculty. Her research interests cover EU law,

comparative law and public law. She is the author of a monograph and the co-author of another

on the subject of judicial independence, and she has also contributed very

generously to the work of sales in a number of capacities, in her capacity as member of the

Management Committee, one of the editors of the Cambridge Yearbook, and also has led very successful

visits to the EU institutions on behalf of sales.

So with great pleasure, I leave the floor now to John Bell, John Spencer and Sophie Turrell.

Thank you, well thank you, Albert Tena for your very generous introduction.

It is my great pleasure to introduce our next speakers, Professor John Bell and Professor John Spencer.

I have worked closely with them over the years, and so I fear that I'm fearful of not doing them full justice in introducing them,

but I can at least mention their role within cells.

John Bell and John Spencer have had a hugely influential role within cells, and they have

at various times acted as director, co-director and all co-director of cells.

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