Current Legal Problems was established after the Second World War as a series of public lectures on law. It is now regarded as the most significant such series in the United Kingdom. Each year a wide range of edited texts are reproduced in the form of a volume. This year's is the 57th such volume. Subjects explored this year include European regulation of GMOs, the uses of comparative legal history. and EC competition law and public services. Amongst the contributors to this volume are Michael Bridge, Tony Prosser, and Ben Pettet . A companion volume containing the proceedings of UCL's annual inter-disciplinary colloquium is published each year under the umbrella title Current Legal Issues.