Contents:
Preface vii;
Bibliographical Note xi;
Contributors xv;
SECTION I - REMEMBERING ARTHUR TAYLOR VON MEHREN:
1 - The Last Euro-American Legal Scholar? Arthur Taylor von Mehren (1922–2006) 3;
By Jürgen Basedow;
2 - Arthur Taylor von Mehren and the Joseph Story Research Fellowship 6;
By Peter L. Murray;
3 - Building Bridges between Legal Systems: The Life and Work of Arthur Taylor von Mehren 10;
By Michael von Hinden;
SECTION II - TRANSATLANTIC LITIGATION AND JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS:
By Giesela Rühl, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg; Max Weber Fellow European University Institute in Florence
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Select 4 - Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions
4 - Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions 29;
By Ralf Michaels;
5 - The Hague Convention on Choice-of-Court Agreements: Was It Worth the Effort? 63;
By Christian Thiele;
6 - Lis Pendens, Negative Declaratory-Judgment Actions and the First-in-Time Principle 89;
By Martin Gebauer;
7 - Recent German Jurisprudence on Cooperation with the United States in Civil and Commercial Matters: A Defense of Sovereignty or Judicial Protectionism? 101;
By Jan von Hein;
8 - Collective Litigation German Style: The Act on Model Proceedings in Capital Market Disputes 126;
By Moritz Bälz,
SECTION III - CHOICE OF LAW IN TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIPS:
9 - Party Autonomy in the Private International Law of Contracts: Transatlantic Convergence and Economic Efficiency 153;
By Giesela Rühl;
10 - The Law Applicable to Intellectual Property Rights: Is the Lex Loci Protectionis a Pertinent Choice-of-Law Approach? 184;
By Eckart Gottschalk;
11 - The Extraterritorial Reach of Antitrust Law between Legal Imperialism and Harmonious Coexistence: The Empagran Judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court from a European Perspective 220;
By Dietmar Baetge;
12 - Mandatory Elements of the Choice-of-Law Process in International Arbitration: Some Reflections on Teubnerian and Kelsenian Legal Theory 243;
By Matthias Weller;
13 - Application of Foreign Law to Determine Punitive Damages: A Recent U.S. Court Contribution to Choice-of-Law Evolution 267;
By Oliver Furtak;
Index 291.