On 8–10 October 2026, Julian Rapp and Wolfgang Wurmnest will probably be internet hosting a convention on European Rules of Transnational Litigation and Their Reception Overseas on the College of Hamburg.
The purpose of the convention is described as follows:
As cross-border disputes develop more and more frequent in at present’s globalized world, reflection on key European procedural rules – and their affect past Europe – deserves nearer examination. This convention examines how European procedural guidelines, significantly these formed by the Court docket of Justice of the European Union, have advanced into common rules of transnational litigation. It’ll talk about traditional jurisdictional guidelines (contract and tort jurisdiction, jurisdiction agreements, and lis pendens), the safety of weaker events, and the popularity and enforcement of judgments – all reflecting the sensible challenges that litigants and courts face in cross-border litigation.
Past taking inventory of European legislation because it stands, the convention examines how these rules have been obtained (or rejected) outdoors the EU – a improvement that reveals a lot about their underlying high quality. Drawing on comparative views from the UK, Turkey, Japan, and Korea, the convention goals to foster dialogue between authorized cultures and to evaluate prospects for convergence or divergence in procedural requirements. By participating each doctrinal foundations and sensible implications, the convention goals to deepen understanding of how European litigation rules form, and are in flip formed by, the evolving international discourse on transnational litigation.
The programme could be discovered right here; registration is feasible by way of this e-mail handle: conference-european-principles.rw@uni-hamburg.de.
