Civil Litigation in a Globalising World

Civil litigation in a globalising world – an introduction.- Fundamental principles of civil procedure: order out of chaos.- Harmonisation of civil procedure: a historical and comparative perspective.- A Law and Economics view on harmonisation of procedural law.- Harmonisation of civil procedure – policy perspectives.- Harmonisation of civil procedure and the interaction with private international law.- Harmonisation of civil procedure and the interaction with substantive private law.- Procedural harmonisation in a European context.- Harmonised civil procedure in a world of structural divergences? Lessons learned from the CEPEJ evaluations.- United States – Harmonisation and Voluntarism: The role of elites in creating an influential national model, the Federal Rules of Civil.- Switzerland – between cosmopolitanism and parochialism in civil litigation.- Globalisation and Scottish Law.- A Dutch perspective on civil litigation and its harmonisation.- The German approach to the globalisation and harmonisation of civil procedure. Balancing national particularities and international open-mindedness.- Convergence of civil procedure systems in Europe. Comments from a Belgian perspective.- The French approach to the globalisation and harmonisation of civil procedure.- Romanian civil procedure. The reform cycles.- Closing comments: harmonisation or globalisation of civil procedure?