Since 1978, the Uppsala Faculty of law and King´s College London School of law have cooperated in organising scholarly colloquia in Uppsala and London. The present volume contains the papers of the VIth Collouium (London 1994) and some of the papers of the VIIth Colloquium (Uppsala 1998). The topics covered include: • European security policy • Business privacy, competition and EC law • Liability of company directors • Developments in intellectual property law • Patient autonomy in medical law • Statutory interpretation and travaux préparatories • Public access to documents in national and EU law • Privacy of contracts • International sales law • Postmodernism and third party losses