Table of Contents:
  • Research aims and methodology / Paul Beaumont and Mihail Danov
  • EU competence to legislate in the area of private international law and law reforms at the EU level / Jan von Hein
  • An analysis of the effectiveness of the EU institutions in making and interpreting EU private international law regulations / Burcu Yüksel
  • Unharmonised procedural rules : is there a case for further harmonisation at EU level? / Jonathan Fitchen
  • Great Britain / Paul Beaumont, Mihail Danov, Katarina Trimmings and Burcu Yüksel
  • Belgium / Thalia Kruger and Eline Ulrix
  • Germany/ Jan von Hein and Hannah Dittmers
  • Italy / Stefania Bariatti, Ilaria Viarengo, Francesca C Villata, Sara Bernasconi and Filippo Marchetti
  • Spain / Carmen Otero García-Castrillón
  • Poland / Agnieszka Frackowiak-Adamska, Agnieszka Guzewicz and Lukasz Petelski
  • Austria / Florian Heindler and Bea Verschraegen
  • Bulgaria / Teodora Tsenova and Anton Petrov
  • Croatia / Ivana Kunda
  • Cyprus / Nikitas E Hatzimihail
  • Czech Republic / Monika Pauknerová, Marta Zavadilová and Jirí Grygar
  • Finland/ Gustaf Möller
  • France / Horatia Muir Watt, Sabine Corneloup, Laurence Usunier, Didier Boden, Jeremy Heymann and David Sindres
  • Greece / Aspasia Archontaki and Paata Simsive
  • Hungary / Csongor István Nagy
  • Ireland / Maebh Harding
  • Latvia / Irena Kucina
  • Lithuania / Kristina Praneviciene
  • Luxembourg / Céline Camara
  • Malta / Antoine G Cremona, Clement Mifsud-Bonnici and Calvin Calleja
  • The Netherlands / Aukje Van Hoek, Ian Sumner and Cathalijne van der Plas
  • Portugal / Elsa Dias Oliveira, João Gomes de Almeida, Eugénia Galvão Teles, Susana Maltez and Raquel Correia
  • Romania / Ileana M Smeureanu, Lucian Ilie and Alexandra Ema Dobre
  • Slovakia/ Miroslava Vozáryová and Katarína Burdová
  • Slovenia / Suzana Kraljic
  • Sweden / Michael Bogdan and Ulf Maunsbach
  • Promoting efficient litigation? / Stephen Dnes
  • Data analysis : important issues to be considered in a cross-border context / Mihail Danov
  • Cross-border civil and commercial disputes before the Court of Justice of the European Union / Paul Beaumont and Burcu Yüksel
  • Legal certainty and predictability in the EUPILLAR Project's regulations : an assessment/ Carmen Otero García-Castrillón
  • Effective remedies in cross-border civil and commercial law disputes : a case for an institutional reform at EU level / Mihail Danov and Paul Beaumont
  • Cross-border contract litigation in the EU / Zheng Sophia Tang
  • Cross-border non-contractual disputes : the legislative framework and court practice / Michael Wilderspin
  • Litigating cross-border intellectual property disputes in the EU private international law framework / Paul Torremans
  • Private enforcement of competition law / Jonathan Fitchen
  • The relationship between litigation and ADR : evaluating the effect of the EU PIL Framework on ADR/Settlements in Cross-border Cases / Mihail Danov and Stefania Bariatti
  • Court of Justice of the European Union's case law on family law matters under Brussels IIa and maintenance / Paul Beaumont and Katarina Trimmings
  • Habitual residence : the factors that courts consider / Thalia Kruger
  • No deal better than a bad deal-child abduction and the Brussels IIa Regulation / Agnieszka Frackowiak-Adamska
  • New (and old) problems for maintenance creditors under the EU maintenance regulation / Lara Walker
  • Mediation in EU cross-border family law / Ruth Lamont
  • Matrimonial matters under the Brussels IIa regulation / Katarina Trimmings
  • Cross-border litigation in europe : some theoretical issues and some practical challenges / Paul Beaumont, Mihail Danov, Katarina Trimmings and Burcu Yüksel.