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Two Max Planck institutes issue joint opinions for the Federal Ministry of Justice
At the request of the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg and the MPI Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law have issued joint opinions addressing two current legislative proposals. The draft bills contain amendments to the German Code of Civil Procedure and other statutes. The amendments are designed to facilitate international service of process and taking of evidence and to unify recognition ...
Research Fellow Ivan Čavdarević awarded with Doctoral degree from the University of Luxembourg
On 16 March 2022, Ivan Čavdarević successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ‘State Responsibility for Judicial Acts in Investment Arbitration’ conducted under the supervision of Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri.
Conducted in the framework of the PRIDE project financed by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, Ivan's thesis examines whether, and to what extent, investment tribunals’ practice in cases concerning domestic judicial acts differs from comparable practices of other international...
Dr. Stavroula Angoura publishes doctoral thesis
The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law is proud to announce that "The Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators in International Commercial Arbitration" has been published. It is authored by former Research Fellow Dr Stavroula Angoura. The book is based on her doctoral dissertation supervised by Prof. Burkhard Hess and defended at the University of Luxembourg. It investigates whether a common international public policy core exists about the concepts of impartiality...
Human Rights Day 2021
The universality of human rights is one of the defining ideas of the modern age. Yet, without effective procedural law, the promotion of substantive human rights and freedoms in judicial fora would be next to impossible. With this in mind, several researchers within the Institute are investigating adjudication of human rights in various courts and tribunals. On the anniversary of the signature of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the MPI Luxembourg would like to reflect on the nexus bet...
Dr Lena Hornkohl publishes doctoral thesis
The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law is proud to announce that the book, Geschäftsgeheimnisschutz im Kartellschadensersatzprozess (Protection of Confidential Information in Private Enforcement of European Competition Law) has been published by Mohr Siebeck. It is authored by Dr. Lena Hornkohl, Senior Research Fellow of the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.
The book, based on Lena Hornkohl’s doctoral...
