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Best Thesis Award for Dr Vincent Richard’s PhD thesis

The MPI Luxembourg is very proud of Vincent Richard, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law, for receiving the Best Thesis Award 2020 from the Council of the Doctoral School in Law at the University of Luxembourg.
Vincent successfully defended his thesis (summa cum laude) on “Le jugement par défaut dans l’espace judiciaire européen” (Default Judgments in the European Judicial Area) in October 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Gilles Cuniberti (Un...


The Library of the MPI remains closed to public

The Library of the Max Planck Institute remains closed to public until further notice.


New book published

Second edition of Professor Hess’ book Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg is proud to announce the publication of the second edition of Professor Hess’ book “Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht”.
In this book, Professor Hess explores the European law of civil procedure from a systematic and dogmatic perspective by comprehensively assessing and providing a detailed explanation of all the instruments adopted in this area of the law. Based on the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the book expounds on the legisl...


The MPI will be closed for all external visitors until 10 January 2021

The MPI will be closed for all external visitors until 10 January 2021
Due to the announcement of a second lockdown starting on the 26 December 2020, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law will be closed for all external visitors until the 10 January 2021.


Prof. Dr. Pierre-Henri Conac appointed as Max Planck Fellow

Cooperation between outstanding university professors and researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg
Luxembourg, 12 November 2020 –  The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg is proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor at the University of Luxembourg, has been appointed as Max Planck Fellow by the President of the Max Planck Society.
The Max Planck Fellow Programme promotes the cooperation between outstanding university professors and Max Planck Society researc...