Entries by Xandra Kramer

The domino effect of international commercial courts in Europe – Who’s next?

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Written by Georgia Antonopoulou and Erlis Themeli, Erasmus University Rotterdam (PhD candidate and postdoc researchers ERC project Building EU Civil Justice) On February 7, 2018 the French Minister of Justice inaugurated the International Commercial Chamber within the Paris Court of Appeals following up on a 2017 report of the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets […]

Bilingual Moot Court Conflict of Laws Sciences Po

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Thanks to Horatia Muir Watt and Hélène van Lith for this post. Sciences Po Law School is delighted to announce the 6th edition of the inter-university Private international law Moot Competition. Sciences Po Law School has been organizing a bilingual moot court on Private International Law in the past 5 years. This 6th edition will […]

Surveys on Functioning Brussels I-bis Regulation

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As part of a research on the amendments of the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the functioning in legal practice (financed by an Action Grant of the European Commission), surveys are available. The research is conducted by the Asser Institute (the Hague), Erasmus School of Law (Rotterdam) and the Leibniz Institute (Amsterdam). The researchers are extremely grateful if you […]

Dutch collective redress dangerous? A call for a more nuanced approach

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Prepared by Alexandre Biard, Xandra Kramer and Ilja Tillema, Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands has become dangerously involved in the treatment of mass claims, Lisa Rickard from the US Chamber of Commerce recently said to the Dutch financial daily (Het Financieele Dagblad, 28 September 2017) and the Dutch BNR newsradio (broadcast of 28 September 2017). […]