Over the course of the last few decades, the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law. The question remains, however, if these efforts have turned private international law into a truly European field? The book analyses – for the first time – how ‘European’ European private international law actually is.

Dit Cahier reikt praktijkjuristen adequate antwoorden aan op de vele vragen die de recente wetswijzigingen in het nationale en internationale beslagrecht doen rijzen. Het is niet de ambitie van de auteurs om volledig en exhaustief te zijn. De auteurs zijn er wel in geslaagd enkele minder bekende onderwerpen uit het beslagrecht te belichten en te verduidelijken voor de rechtspracticus.

Common Interests in International Litigation provides answers to questions that international litigation faces as the result of an increasing recognition of common interests in this area, with an ever-expanding network of specialised judicial bodies.

Belgische rechtbanken en hoven moeten steeds meer IPR-wetgeving van EU-oorsprong toepassen. Hoe doen ze dat? Volgen zij de rechtspraak van het Hof van Justitie van de EU? In deze bijdrage maken de auteurs een analyse van de (gepubliceerde) rechtspraak over de Brussel I-, de Brussel II bis- en de Onderhoudsverordening.

This book examines the private international law treatment of American punitive damages in the European Union. It poses the crucial question whether U.S. punitive damages (should) penetrate the borders of the European Union through the backdoor of private international law.

This set collects the three volumes of the HccH’s Proceedings of the Twentieth Session (2005).

This publication is the first in a series of three volumes entitled Proceedings of the Twentieth Session (2005).

In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.

The international character of shipping and transport has always been a great incubator for harmonisation of law. Recently, there has been increasing interest within the EU in harmonisation of general private law, with different harmonisation instruments such as common core, PECL and DCFR coming into existence. In this book the possible impact of these private law harmonisation instruments on shipping and transport law is assessed.