Diese Festschrift wA1/4rdigt die hervorragenden Verdienste des Jubilars um das deutsche Recht und die deutsche ProzeArechtswissenschaft. Die Festschrift erscheint in Deutschland; neben deutschen haben sich auch japanische, Asterreichische, griechische, ungarische und Schweizer Wissenschaftler beteiligt.

Innovative initiatives for online arbitration are needed to aid in resolving cross-border commercial and consumer disputes in the EU, UK, US and China. This book provides a comparative study of online dispute resolution (ODR) systems and a model of best practices, taking into consideration the features and characteristics of various practical experiences/examples of ODR services and technological development for ODR systems and platforms. The book begins with a theoretical approach, looking into the challenges in the use of online arbitration in commercial transactions and analysing the potential adoption of technology-assisted arbitration (e.g. Basic ODR systems and Intelligent/Advanced ODR systems) in resolving certain types of international commercial and consumer disputes. It then investigates the legal obstacles to adopting ODR by examining the compatibility of technology with current legislation and regulatory development. Finally, it suggests appropriate legal and technological measures to promote the recognition of ODR, in particular online arbitration, for cross-border commercial and consumer disputes. By exploring both the theoretical framework and the practical considerations of online arbitration, this book will be a vital reference for lawyers, policy-makers, government officials, industry professionals and academics who are involved with online arbitration.

Das IPR-Gesetz 1986 hat sowohl das Schiedsverfahrensrecht als auch das vom Schiedsgericht anzuwendende Kollisionsrecht geAndert. Die Rechtsprechung hat zu bedeutsamen Streitfragen der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit Stellung bezogen. Die Schiedsordnungen sind teilweise grundlegenden Revisionen unterzogen worden. Weitere Staaten sind dem UN-Aoebereinkommen beigetreten, in anderen ist die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit neu geregelt worden. Die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit hat die staatliche Gerichtsbarkeit national und international in verschiedenen Bereichen zurA1/4ckgedrAngt.Die Darstellung des deutschen Schiedsverfahrens fA1/4hrt anhand eines Falles durch sAmtliche Stationen und bietetdem Benutzer verlAssliche Leitlinien fA1/4r seine Dispositionen. Das internationale Schiedsverfahren berA1/4cksichtigt neben dem autonomen Recht die zahlreichen StaatsvertrAge und bringt eine LAnderA1/4bersicht A1/4ber die Durchsetzbarkeit deutscher SchiedssprA1/4che im Ausland. Die wesentlichen nationalen und internationalen Schiedsgerichtsinstitutionen und Musterschiedsordnungen werden eingehend dargestellt.

Das Buch liefert eine handbuchartige, rechtsvergleichende Darstellung der in einem internationalen Wirtschaftsschiedsverfahren auftretenden Rechtsprobleme, mit denen sich der Praktiker im Hinblick auf die standige Zunahme derartiger Verfahren immer wieder konfrontiert sieht. Der Autor legt dabei besonderes Gewicht auf die Verknupfung verfahrens- und materiellrechtlicher Aspekte.Der Verfasser untersucht neben den in der Schweiz und in den Niederlanden erlassenen Schiedsgesetzen auch das UNCITRAL-Modellgesetz fur die internationale Handelsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit. Neben diesen Gesetzen werden die UNCITRAL-Schiedsordnung sowie die Schiedsordnungen der Zurcher Handelskammer und des Niederlandischen Schiedsgerichtsinstituts analysiert.Im Interesse der Benutzerfreundlichkeit fur den Praktiker sind die besprochenen Gesetze und Schiedsordnungen sowie die entsprechenden Musterschiedsklauseln und die New Yorker Konvention uber die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung auslandischer Schiedsspruche im Anhang abgedruckt."

With the introduction of the Rome I Regulation, new legislation has become effective in International Contract Law in Europe and Germany. The latest developments are now commented on in best Staudinger quality and thoroughness. This most extensive commentary on the Rome I Regulation also examines questions of detail such as the choice-of-venue and arbitration agreements that are important for daily practice. In addition, particular consideration is devoted to the latest revisions regarding consumer protection for special areas and compulsory insurance contracts in the Introductory Law to the German Civil Code (EGBGB, Articles 46b and c).

This book provides a counter-balance to the traditional focus on judicial decisions by exploring the contribution of legal scholars to the development of private law. In the book the work of a selection of leading scholars of contract law from across the common law world, ranging from Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674-1726) to Professor Brian Coote (1929-2019), is addressed by legal historians and current scholars in the field. The focus is on the nature of the work produced by the scholars in question, important influences on their work, and the impact which that work in turn had on thinking about contract law. The book also includes an introductory chapter and an afterword by Professor William Twining that explore connections between the scholars and recurrent themes. The process of subjecting contract law scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual development of contract law and reveals the central role played by scholars in that process. And by focusing attention on the work of influential contract scholars, the book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development of the common law more generally.

This volume considers the right to claim for return by the impoverished donor according to 528 BGB (German Civil Code), which has increasingly shifted into the spotlight and represents an important intersection of civil and social law. While adhering to the highest academic requirements, this work remains focused on the needs of those in practice - whether it be in the form of a creditor with the right of recourse, the affected attorney specialized in inheritance law, social law or administrative law - and provides case presentations for orientation."

In recent years, much political and legal debate has centered on the class action lawsuit. Many lawyers and judges have noted the intense pressure to settle caused by the very filing of a suit. Some contend that the procedure amounts to a form of judicial blackmail. Others counter that it is an effective means of policing corporate behavior and assuring injured victims' fair compensation.
This book represents the first scholarly effort to view the modern class action comprehensively through the lenses of American political and constitutional theory. Redish argues that the modern class action undermines foundational constitutional principles, including procedural due process and separation of powers, and has been improperly transformed from its origins as a complex procedural device into a means for altering controlling substantive law in highly undemocratic ways. Redish proposes an alternative vision of the class action lawsuit, one that is designed to enable the device to serve its valuable procedural purposes without simultaneously contravening core precepts of American constitutional democracy.