“RIW Fachkonferenz” on Private Enforcement of Competition Law and the Regulation 2014/104/EU at Frankfurt am Main on 26 November 2015
Matthias Weller is Professor for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at the EBS University for Economics and Law Wiesbaden and Director of the EBS Law School Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (www.ebs.edu/tcdr).
The enforcement of competition law by means of civil proceedings is becoming more and more important. The European legislator recently has tried to incentivize private enforcement actions by enacting Regulation 2014/104/EU which harmonizes the law of the Member States with respect to cartel damage claims. Courts all around Europe deal with private enforcement claims. In May this year, for the first time the CJEU has dealt with central issues on international jurisdiction according to the Brussels I-Regulation in the CDC-proceedings. As a consequence, this area of law is shifting into the focus of both competition law and civil procedure experts.
Taking this development into account, the German Legal Journal “Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft” (“RIW”) hosts a conference (conference language: German) that takes a closer look at the current trends in private enforcement of competition law:
Welcome speech
Dr. Roland Abele, RIW
Introduction to the subject
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, Mag.rer.publ., EBS Law School, Wiesbaden
Legal framework of the Private Enforcement Regulation 2014/104/EU
Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer, LL.M. (Yale), Freie Universität Berlin
International civil procedural law and the CDC-case of the CJEU
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, Mag.rer.publ., EBS Law School Wiesbaden
Presumption of loss
Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomas, University of Tübingen
Relationship between joint and several debtors
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Kainer, University of Mannheim
Private Enforcement from the appeal instance
Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof Dr. Thomas Winter, Karlsruhe
Discussion Panel with experts from legal practice
Chair: Rechtsanwalt Dr. Georg Weidenbach, M.Jur. (Oxford), Latham & Watkins, Frankfurt
We would like to cordially invite you to join our discussion! Detailed information about the conference can be accessed here.