Objective

This five-day course will provide you with an introduction to the law of cross-border civil litigation within the EU and beyond. The most topical issues are discussed.

This course will provide you with hands-on experience of cross-border debt recovery, the newest Regulations and the recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

All relevant instruments in this field will be presented and analysed, by way of both lectures and case studies. You will benefit from daily workshops where active participation is encouraged.
 

Key topics

• Jurisdiction and different ways of enforcing judgments abroad
• Strategic litigation, including SLAPPs
• Digital justice with a focus on the new rules on service of documents and taking of evidence
• Applicable law to contracts and torts
• International business law and human rights
• Representative actions
• Climate change litigation

Visit to the CJEU in Luxembourg

Participants in the summer course will have the opportunity to visit the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
 

Who should attend?

The course is aimed at legal practitioners seeking a thorough introduction to the various instruments of international civil procedure and conflict of laws.
 

Speakers

Angelika Fuchs, Head of Section, European Private Law, Academy of European Law, Trier

Michael Hellner,Professor, Stockholm University

Christian Herrera Petrus, Partner, Professor of Procedural Law, Herrera Advocats, Barcelona

Leonhard Hübner, Professor, University of Augsburg Jens Kleinschmidt, Professor, University of Trier

Xandra Kramer, Professor,Erasmus School of Law, University of Rotterdam; Part-time Professor, Utrecht University

Ivana Kunda, Professor, University of Rijeka

Tibor Molnar, Judge and Court Advisor / Coordinator in EU Law, Regional Court of Appeal, Debrecen

Marta Pertegás Sender, Part-time Professor, Maastricht University and the University of Antwerp

Hannes Wais, Professor, University of Osnabrück