Recognition and Enforcement of Non-EU Judgments

Tobias Lutzi, Ennio Piovesani and Dora Zgrabljic Rotar have edited Recognition and Enforcement of Non-EU Judgments, a collection of essays resulting from a project run under the same name by the Young Research Network of EAPIL.

This book examines the EU Member States’ national rules on recognition and enforcement of Non-EU judgments.

Through its country report methodology, it explores the rules of 21 Member States in a structured manner. The emerging points of convergence – and divergence – form the basis of a detailed comparative report, which provides a unique overview of the current legal framework of recognition and enforcement of non-EU judgments across the European Union. This allows for (at least) three intriguing points of comparison: between the laws of the individual Member States; between the laws of the Member States and the legal framework applicable to EU judgments under the Brussels Ia Regulation; and between the laws of the Member States and the 2019 HCCH Judgments Convention.

This ambitious and unique work will be an indispensable reference for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of international commercial law.

Opened by a foreword by Ron A. Brand, the volume features a comparative report by the editors, followed by national reports covering a broad range of EU Member States. The national report are authored by Paul Lorenz Eichmüller (Austria), Cedric Vanleenhove (Belgium), Ilia Lassin and Dafina Sarbinova (Bulgaria), Tena Hoško and Dora Zgrabljic Rotar (Croatia), Nicolas Kyriakides and Konstantinos Rokas (Cyprus), Patrik Provazník and Radovan Malachta (Czech Republic), Onerva-Aulikki Suhonen (Finland), Claudia Cavicchioli (France), Karin Arnold and Leon Theimer (Germany), Eva Litina (Greece), Ferenc Szilágyi (Hungary), Yagmur Hortoglu Grant (Ireland), Marco Pasqua (Italy), Aleksandrs Fillers and Ivan Allegranti (Latvia), Katarzyna Bogdziewicz and Giedrius Ožiunas (Lithuania), Ioannis Revolidis (Malta), Tess Bens and Birgit van Houtert (the Netherlands), Anna Wysocka-Bar (Poland), Ramona Cirlig and Daniel-Florin Petrache (Romania), Blas Piñar Guzmán and Anna María Ruiz Martín (Spain), and Erik Sinander (Sweden).