Entries by Veronika Gaertner

Article on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Economic Perspective

An article by Katrin Lantermann and Hans-Bernd Schäfer (both Hamburg) has recently been released on SSRN: “Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Economic Perspective“. Here is the abstract which can be found on the SSRN website: This article looks at choice of law rules from an economic perspective.The aim is to understand whether particular choice […]

German Article on the Procedure for a Declaration of Enforceability under the Brussels Regulation

Burkhard Hess and David Bittmann (both Heidelberg) have published a very interesting article on the possibilities for an increase of efficiency of the procedure for a declaration of enforceability according to the Brussels I-Regulation (“Die Effektuierung des Exequaturverfahrens nach der Europäischen Gerichtsstands- und Vollstreckungsverordnung”) in the latest issue of the “

Reference for a Preliminary Ruling on Brussels II bis

The Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) has referred the following question to the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Brussels II bis: The respondent in a case concerning divorce is neither resident in a Member State nor a citizen of a Member State. May the case be heard by […]

Publication: International Family Law for the European Union

A very interesting compilation of contributions resulting from a research project on the elaboration of international family law rules within the European Union, funded by the European Commission and conducted by the universities of Antwerp, Barcelona, Louvain-la-Neuve, Lund, Milan, Toulouse and Utrecht has been published by Johan Meeusen, Marta Pertegás, Gert Straetmans and Frederik Swennen: […]

Article in Commemorance of Arthur Taylor von Mehren

An article by Symeon C. Symeonides (Willamette University College of Law, Salem, Oregon) on the life and work of Arthur Taylor von Mehren, who has passed away on January 16, 2006, has recently been published in English in the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (