Ole Lando (September 2, 1922–April 5, 2019)
Pages i–viii, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaa023
If you want to know about Ole Lando, you can do no better than read his own memoir, “My Life as a Lawyer,” published in the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht in 2002.1 There he sets out in characteristically short and pithy sentences the facts of his eighty years to that point, along with an account of the intellectual trajectory that saw him move from the deep study of international private law to the leadership of an academic movement to create, first, a European contract law, then, second, a European private law and, finally, a European civil code. The last has not (yet) come…