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Value-added Norms, Local Litigation, and Global Enforcement: Why the Brussels-Philosophy failed in The Hague

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Gralf-Peter Calliess

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In the early Nineties the Hague Conference on International Private Law on initiative of the United States started negotiations on a Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (the “Hague Convention“). In October 1999 the Special Commission on duty presented a preliminary text, which was drafted quite closely to the European Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (the “Brussels Convention“). The latter was concluded between the then 6 Member States of the EEC in Brussels in 1968 and amended several times on occasion of the entry of new Member States. In 2000, after the Treaty of Amsterdam altered the legal basis for judicial co-operation in civil matters in Europe, it was transformed into an EC Regulation (the “Brussels I Regulation”).

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German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 12: Special issue - The Political Economy of Jurisdiction for Human Rights. Papers from the 2nd International German Law Journal Workshop, Duke University Law School, 29 Oct 2004 , 01 December 2004 , pp. 1489 - 1498
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