Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Committee on Legal Affairs I: Possible legal basis for instrument on minimum standards in civil procedure

 Written by Edina Márton On 21 December 2015, the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament issued a Working Document on establishing common minimum standards for civil procedure in the European Union – the legal basis (PE572.853v01-00). The Rapporteur, Emil Radev, outlines the scope of the legislative competence of the EU regarding civil procedure […]

Latest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 80 No. 1 (2016)

The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht  – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has just been released. It contains the following articles: Armin Steinbach, Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren und Verfassungsrecht (Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Constitutional Law) Investment treaties allow foreign investors to claim damages against states before tribunals of investor-state dispute […]

Save the Date: 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture on 6 June 2016

On 6 June 2016, the 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture will take place at Humboldt-University Berlin. This year’s speaker will be Professor Richard Brooks (Yale Law School/Columbia Law School), Professor Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School) and Professor Roberta Romano (Yale Law School). The program reads as follows: 2.00 p.m. Welcome by Professor Susanne Augenhofer and the Vice […]

European Parliament: Legislative Resolution on the Amendment of the Small Claims Regulation

It has not yet been noted on this blog that the European Parliament, on 7 October 2015, adopted at first reading a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure and Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 creating a European order for payment procedure. The resolution as […]