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23 SYIL 1 (2019)

handle is hein.intyb/spanyb0023 and id is 1 raw text is: The relationship between legal systems Gil Carlos RODRIGUEZ IGLESIAS* 1. I have decided to address the relationships between legal systems as the subject of my acceptance speech. Both the choice of subject and how I will approach it are conditioned by my professional background, which has essentially been shaped by three main factors: my status as an international law professor, my specific interest in European Community law, and my judicial activity over the last 15 years. Needless to say, I do not intend to develop or even outline this topic as a thesis, but rather to lay out a few personal thoughts on it. To this end, I will approach the subject successively from four different perspectives: the traditional perspective of the relationship between international law and domestic law, the specific perspective of the relationship between European Community law and the domestic law of the Member States, the perspective of the relationship between international law and European Community law, and, finally, the perspective of the growing interrelationship between different national and international legal systems. Before I begin, I would like to underscore that a key premise of all my thoughts on these matters is the importance of legal pluralism or the pluralism of legal systems, which is an objective state of affairs. In my opinion, one important consequence of this legal pluralism is that there is not always a single legally correct solution to the conflicts that arise as a result of the interactions between the different legal systems. Instead there is a plurality of solutions, in keeping with the pluralism of the legal systems, whose harmonization or convergence cannot always be achieved through legal logic alone. This is something I always stress when referring to the relationship between European Community law and the constitutional law of the Member States, a passionately contested topic in the literature and one I will return to shortly. 2. With regard to the classical issue of the relationship between international law and domestic law, the traditional perspective, based on the divide in the literature between monism and dualism, has given way to a more empirical analysis of the legal reality. This new approach makes it possible to regard today as something non-controversial the fact that international rules are generally received and implemented in accordance with each state's legal system, that the various legal systems provide for diverse solutions in this regard based * 1946 2009. Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Judge (1986 2003) and President (1994 2003) of the European Union Court of Justice. This (adapted) article was the Lectio before the University of Oviedo when admitted as Doctor Honoris Causa on 25 May 2001; and it was originally published as 'Discurso de investidura como doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Oviedo de Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias, Presidente del Tribunal de Justicia de las Comunidades Europeas pronunciado el 25 de mayo de 2001',Recista Jurdica EspahiolaLa Ley (2001) 1702-1706. Translated by by Kari Friedenson.

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