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With order of 14 June 2007 the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) decided not to admit constitutional complaints concerning the service of statements of claim in American class actions pursuant to the Hague Service Convention. The facts of the case are as follows: Against the complainant, an automobile manufacturer with its registered office in Germany, […]
The Chair for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has created under the direction of
The Study on the Application of the Brussels I Regulation in the Member States which has been carried out by the
On 20 September, Advocate General Kokott has delivered her opinion on the first reference for a preliminary ruling on the Brussels II bis Regulation (Regulation 2201/2003/EC) – Applicant C, C-435/06. The background of the case is as follows: Applicant C. has lived with her two minor children and her husband in Sweden. In February 2005, […]
Recently, the latest issue of the German legal journal Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrecht (“
The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has referred with decision of 21 June 2007 (IX ZR 39/06) the following questions to the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling: On interpreting Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings and Article 1(2)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No […]
An interesting article written by Giesela Rühl has recently been published in the German legal journal Rabels Zeitschrift (71 RabelsZ 2007, 559 et seq.): “Die Kosten der Rechtswahlfreiheit: Zur Anwendung ausländischen Rechts durch deutsche Gerichte” Here’s the English abstract: Free choice of law has been the focus of the economic analysis of law for several […]
A critical article on the Rome II Regulation has been written by
Two annotations discussing the judgment given by the European Court of Justice on 3 May 2007 on Article 5 (1) (b) Brussels I Regulation in Color Drack have been published in German legal journals: Stefan Leible/Christian Reinert (both Bayreuth),
Christian Heinze (Hamburg) has published an article on the enforcement of English world-wide freezing injunctions in a foreign jurisdiction (“Grenzüberschreitende Vollstreckung englischer freezing injunctions”) in the latest issue of “