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Egyptian Court of Cassation on the application of the Hague Service Convention

[The author wishes to thank Justice Hossam Hesham Sadek, Vice President of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation, and reporting judge in the case at hand, for granting access to the Supreme Court’s ruling]. 1.  Introduction In a recent ruling (22/05/2017), the Egyptian Court of Cassation tackled with the issue of […]

The Justice Initiative Frankfurt am Main 2017

Written by Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Burkhard Hess, Executive Director Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law Against the backdrop of Brexit, an initiative has been launched to strengthen Frankfurt as a hot spot for commercial litigation in the European Judicial Area. On March 30, 2017, the Minister of Justice of the Federal State Hessen, Ms Kühne-Hörmann, organized a conference at which the Justice Initiative was presented. […]

Paris, the Jurisdiction of Choice?

On January 17th, the President of the Paris Commercial Court (

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CJEU on centre of main interests (COMI) and its subsequent transfer (and Brexit) under the Insolvency Regulation 2015 in the case Galapagos BidCo, C-723/20

Under the Insolvency Regulation 2015, a transfer of the centre of main interests (COMI) of the debtor after lodging of the request for opening of insolvency proceedings affects the exclusive jurisdiction of the court seised with that application prior to the transfer? This is the legal issue that the Court addresses in the judgement delivered […]

Three-day seminar “Populism and the New Foreign Relations Law: Between Public International Law, ‘External Public Law, and Conflict of Laws.” June 8-10

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9th CPLJ Webinar – 1 April 2022

Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ) is a global project of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, with the support of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (019/13946847), involving more than one hundred scholars from all over the world. CPLJ is envisioned as a comprehensive study of comparative civil procedural law and civil dispute […]