Entries by Veronika Gaertner

Conference on European Procedural Law

The Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (University of Heidelberg) and the European Commission will organise the 2nd Conference on European Procedural Law in Heidelberg titled The Future of European Civil Procedural Law __ Reforming the Regulation Brussels I The conference will address in particular the following topics: the abolition […]

Article on Passengers’ Rights

Jens Karsten (Brussels/Oslo) has written a paper on recent developments in the field of European passenger law with references to PIL issues. “Im Fahrwasser der Athener Verordnung zu Seereisenden: Neuere Entwicklungen des europäischen Passagierrechts” has been published in the German law journal “Verbraucher und Recht” (VuR) vol. 6/2009, pp. 213 et seq. The article mainly […]

Article on Google Book Search Settlement

Yesterday’s issue of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) contains an interesting article on the Google Book Search Settlement written by Prof. Burkhard Hess: The settlement concerns a class action lawsuit between Google and – as plaintiffs – the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers as well as individual authors and publishers about books scanned […]