5. Conclusion Legal systems are flexible and rationality prevails, so however much they are bound to the internal logical unfold ing of their own legal trad ition or family, through transpositions and fertilisation, transmigration of ideas, institutions and structures occurs and causes legal systems as a whole, and areas of law in particular, to change. Legal systems are driven by their internal dynamics and by the external dynamics of transmigration. This movement and change can be dubbed 'convergence or ' divergence within harmony. The results are mixed legal systems and areas of law that are themselves mixed systems i would therefore maintain that the mixed legal systems of our day and, in the area covered by this paper, public law as a mixed system, are subjects that will increasingly interest comparative lawyers of the future Lord irvine observes: Through these processes of cross-fertilisation we begin to see the emergence of common principles of European public law which, in turn, help to ensure that and transnational public bodies.. Our constitutional landscape Is clag g,ano ith national all European citizens benefit from certain bench-mark standards as they interact wi dministrative law in Britain and Europe24 are growing closer together. 25 The extent to which we are mixing, melting, blending, being re-potted and then solidifying into the new shape as we cool down will be interesting to watch. But since this is an ongoing process, the view we take of the outcome can only be at one moment in time when we look at a legal system or an area of law. By the time we make our diagnosis, there will have been new movements and new mixes 24Note however, that the div ide persists! 25Lord Irvine of Lairg, "The Influence of Europe on Public Law in the United Kingdom, in B.S. Markesinis (ed ) The Coming Together of the Common Law and the Civil Law, The Clifford Chance Millennium Lectures, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000, 24-25. Conclusion Legal systems are flexible and rationality prevails, so however much they are bound to the internal logical unfolding of their own legal tradition or family, through transpositions and fertilisation, transmigration of ideas, institutions and structures occurs and causes legal systems as a whole, and areas of law in particular, to change. Legal systems are driven by their internal dynamics and by the external dynamics of transmigration. This movement and change can be dubbed ‘convergence’ or ‘divergence within harmony’. The results are mixed legal systems and areas of law that are themselves mixed systems. I would therefore maintain that the mixed legal systems of our day and, in the area covered by this paper, public law as a mixed system, are subjects that will increasingly interest comparative lawyers of the future. Lord Irvine observes: ‘Through these processes of cross-fertilisation we begin to see the emergence of common principles of European public law which, in turn, help to ensure that all European citizens benefit from certain bench-mark standards as they interact with national and transnational public bodies. . . . Our constitutional landscape is changing, and administrative law in Britain and Europe24 are growing closer together.’25 The extent to which we are mixing, melting, blending, being re-potted and then solidifying into the new shape as we cool down will be interesting to watch. But since this is an ongoing process, the view we take of the outcome can only be at one moment in time when we look at a legal system or an area of law. By the time we make our diagnosis, there will have been new movements and new mixes. 24Note however, that the divide persists! 25Lord Irvine of Lairg, ‘The Influence of Europe on Public Law in the United Kingdom’, in B.S. Markesinis (ed.), The Coming Together of the Common Law and the Civil Law, The Clifford Chance Millennium Lectures, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000, 24-25