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Colloquium at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
Current challenges for EU cross-border litigation in a changing procedural environment
WEDNESDAY, 26 September 2018
| 08:45 | Welcome and registration |
| 09:00 | Opening address by Burkhard Hess (Director, MPI Luxembourg) |
| 09:15 | Panel 1: Beyond actor sequitur forum rei Chair: Séverine Menétrey (Professor, Université du Luxembourg) Etienne Farnoux (PhD, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Towards the jurisdictional protection of the alleged victim in cross-border torts? Lucilla Galanti (PhD, Università di Bologna) CJEU case law and forum connexitatis: how to improve the close connection criterion? Discussion |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 | Panel 2: Collective Redress Chair: Michal Bobek (Advocate General, CJEU) Cinzia Peraro (Università degli Studi di Verona) Cross-border collective redress: Horizontal vs sectoral approach Discussants: Dr. Stephanie Law and Janek Nowak (both MPI Luxembourg) |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:40 | Asaël Rouby (Fond National de la Recherche) Presentation of the FNR funding activities |
| 13:45 | Panel 3: Internet: Disruptor or facilitator? Chair: Andrew Dickinson (Professor, University of Oxford) Tobias Lutzi (University of Oxford) Casting the net – Has the Court of Justice’s approach to online torts made the Brussels framework fit for the internet age? Alina Ontanu (PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam) Encoding Justice: The quest for facilitating access to justice by e-handling of cross-border litigation. The example of European uniform procedures Discussion |
| 15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:45 | Panel 4: The Brussels regime and political questions Chair: Juliane Kokott (Advocate General, CJEU) Zuzanna Witek (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) Loss of mutual trust as a ground for refusal of mutual recognition in the framework of the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice – Problem analysis on the example of the judiciary crisis in Poland Discussion |
| 16:30 | Closing remarks by by Geert Van Calster (Professor, KU Leuven) |
Contact:
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send your reservation request with your contact details (first name, surname and affiliation) to events@mpi.lu or contact Martina Winkel: (+352) 26 94 88 923.
The participation is free of charge.
Venue:
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
Conference room 4th floor
4, rue Alphonse Weicker
L-2721 Luxembourg