englischProviding a full range of clauses, forms and documents needed from the beginning of arbitral proceedings right through the issuing of the arbitral award, the handbook is an indispensable working tool for practitioners. It contains insightful commentaries and offers insider information and [...]

englischCorporate Internal Investigations become more and more important for businesses in order to minimize the businesses’ liability risks. These liability risks often result from a violation of the obligatory supervision of the responsible persons in the company. Obligatory supervision does not [...]

englischInternational arbitration has become the preferred dispute resolution mechanism in cross-border disputes. In the course of time, ad hoc arbitration, where the parties have to create their own rules and procedures, has increasingly been replaced by institutional arbitration where a [...]

englischIn a world of global trade, the “fairness” of commercial transactions gains in importance. While most countries agree that in the interest of all market participants competition shall not only be free but also honest, significant differences as to the approach to ensure this fairness [...]

englischInternational arbitration not only paves the way for parties to avoid the imponderables of proceedings before foreign state courts. It also facilitates transnational enforceability of awards which is far more effective than the enforceability of state court judgments. The major instrument to [...]

englischThis is the first systematic comparative study into how consumer ADR systems (usually ombudsmen and médiateurs) work, the differing national architectures within which they operate, and how they can be improved. It describes ADR schemes in France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, [...]