Studia Amicorum Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca
Javier Carrascosa González (University of Murcia) and Esperanza Castellanos Ruiz (University Carlos III of Madrid) kindly accepted the invitation of the editors of the EAPIL blog to prepare a post as special editors of Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024) of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, issued as a special edition dedicated to Studia Amicorum Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca.
The multifaceted personality of Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca has been honoured in Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024) of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional. The volume covers more than eighty works and more than 90 authors, as it can be seen in the table of contents.
Not only is the Curriculum Vitae of Alfonso-Luis Calvo extraordinarily extensive and profound but it also covers all areas, without exception, of private international law and international economic law. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, this volume pays tribute to his outstanding work.
Alfonso-Luis Calvo has devoted more than forty years of his life to private international law with astounding dedication and vocation. Professor Alfonso-Luis Calvo obtained his doctorate at the University of Bologna, Italy, in May 1978 with a brilliant doctoral thesis on the doctrine of “l’intérêt national“. After teaching at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Murcia, he obtained the position of Full Professor of Private International Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid, which he currently holds. Alfonso-Luis Calvo is a first-rate teacher, an astonishing and meticulous researcher, an excellent communicator and a magnificent and inspiring mentor. He is also a lawyer and has acted as an arbitrator in international disputes.
The volume brings together contributions from friends, colleagues, peers, followers and protégées. Readers interested in national as well as in European private international law will certainly find everything they are looking for in this volume of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional. The volume is an impressionist puzzle which pays tribute to Professor Calvo Caravaca and offers a collection of carefully selected papers inspired on the matters and topics Professor Alfonso-Luis Calvo has dealt with during his professional life so far. From international family law to international business law through international civil procedure, almost every topic of private international law has been examined in this volume.
The world of private international law has been the oyster of Professor Calvo Caravaca. He has had the talent and the opportunity, he has worked superlatively hard, and, above all, Professor Calvo Caravaca is an excellent person, generous, extremely kind and with a fine sense of humour. Thus, a great and very well deserved welcome should be given to this new volume of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional.
Strength and honour are the clothing of Professor Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca and the volume of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional is the clear evidence that what we do in life echoes in eternity.