Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes in the Single Market
The European Commission yesterday proposed legislation “to help consumers solve their disputes with businesses out of court”. The proposal comprises a Draft Directive on Consumer ADR and a Draft...
View Article“Class Actions in Europe – Status Quo and Outlook”; Berlin Conference on May...
Berlin’s Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance and Frankfurt/Oder’s “Frankfurter Institut für das Recht der Europäischen Union” are hosting, on May 7 and 8, 2012, a conference on “Class Actions in the...
View ArticleCollective Redress in Antitrust – A European Study
Collective redress remains a hot topic on all European levels, and the European Parliament takes an active role. Its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has commissioned a study on Collective...
View ArticleHot Topics in Legal Policy: EU Commissioner for Justice Reding on Class...
Viviane Reding, the Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, spoke about “Europe, the Law, and the German legal profession: a comment from Luxembourg” at last week’s...
View ArticleUpper Chamber of German Parliament Against Investment Arbitration in US/EU TTIP
In today‘s session, the Upper Chamber (Bundesrat) of the German parliament discussed the state of the current negotiations of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the...
View ArticleEuropean Union: Progress on the Choice of Court Convention
The headline of Friday’s press release was a bit too much, for my taste: “Choice of Court Convention: EU businesses receive a major boost for international trade”, the EU Commission claimed. EU Justice...
View ArticleHague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements Comes Into Force
On October 1, 2015, the Hague Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements came into force in 28 States, namely in Mexico and all member states of the European Union – with the traditional...
View ArticleEU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement: Blue Print for a Permanent Investment...
While everyone is busy discussing TTIP and the pro’s and con’s of Investment Arbitration as we know it, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced on December 2, 2015 that European Union and...
View ArticleSingapore to Ratify Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
We have covered the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements on several occasions (see, most recently, here and here). Now, the Convention is about to get a new party, and Patrick Dahm, a partner...
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