Richard Fentiman is Reader in Private International Law at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches the postgraduate course on International Commercial Litigation. His book on International Commercial Litigation was published by Oxford University Press in February 2010. He is the author of Foreign Law in English Courts (OUP, 1998), and he gave a course […]

Just in case you have not already ordered your copy, or one for your library, the 5th edn (2009) of Briggs & Rees, Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments is available. Insofar as there is blurb available, here it is: The new edition has been thoroughly updated to include: Major decisions of the European Court on the […]

In an effort to speed up the blog, I have tweaked the design. Most notably, the ‘asides’ category in the second menu column has disappeared (all those posts can now be found in the main post area with all the others), as indeed has the second menu column itself. All other content from that column […]

Prof. Burkhard Hess is Professor at the University of Heidelberg and judge at the Court of Appeals in Karlsruhe. All views expressed in this paper are the personal views of the author. An enlarged version of this article is going to be published in the Cahier de l’Arbitrage 2010. Should arbitration and European procedural law […]