Collective redress has been on the EU civil justice agenda for a long time, and has triggered considerable debate as a result of the complexity of the matter and the hugely diverging approaches in the Member States. The 2013 Recommendation on collective redress was the result of compromises, and...

The development of collective redress in practice depends on the availability of adequate funding. In recent years third-party funding by entrepreneurial parties has become an important source of financing collective actions and settlements. Both at the EU level and in most of the Member States...

Access to civil justice has been on the research and policy agenda for a num-ber of decades. Nevertheless, old hurdles – including costs and delays – continue to challenge access to justice, while changes in the justice system and society – the rapid technological advancement at the...

In recent years there has been significant growth in international business courts in Europe and across the world. They have been established as expert dispute resolution forums offering procedures in English for international commercial parties. Governments have promoted their development as an...

Europe has witnessed an intensive debate on collective redress over the course of the last decade. Discussions in Europe are characterized by opposing views in the Member States and fear for abusive litigation. In June 2013, the European Commission released its long-awaited policy in the form of...

The present issue (8:4) of Erasmus Law Review results from one of the sessions of the XV World Congress of Procedural Law of the International Association of Procedural Law in 2015, dedicated to ‘Effective Judicial Relief and Remedies in an Age of Austerity'. It focuses on the role of...

The Rome I Regulation on the applicable law to contractual obligations co-exists with a still expanding body of EU rules on various aspects of contract law. A specific question that has been raised during the negotiations on the Rome I Regulation is how this instrument relates to substantive EU...

This paper assesses the extent to which solutions under Dutch civil law complement and augment the public policy objectives underlying the criminalization of corruption in international business transactions. To this end, it explores the contractual and non-contractual consequences of contracts...

This working paper emanates from a conference on European civil procedure (Uppsala, September 2013), and is expected to be published in a conference book in 2015.The paper evaluates the experiences with the European order for payment procedure and the European small claims procedure, 5 years...

If a creditor does not succeed in the extrajudicial collection of his money claim, in the Netherlands the debt is normally recovered by initiating ordinary court proceedings. This is necessary in order to obtain an enforceable title, which enables a creditor to enforce his claim. Research has...