On the eve of the third millennium social and economic relations, science and technology have developed at an unusually accelerated speed. Interaction among these factors brought changes of a varying impact upon the quality of life in different geographical areas. Law and jurispendence had to keep pace with changes, on a local as well as on an international scale, to avoid dead-ends, find new ways and methods for internal and international rule. This volume responds to how satisfactory has their performance been and what is there still to be achieved.