The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Matthias Weller is Director of the Institute for German and international Civil Procedural Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. João Ribeiro-Bidaoui is a former First Secretary, Permanent Bureau, Hague Conference on Private International Law. Moritz Brinkmann is Director of the Institute for German and international Civil Procedural Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. Nina Dethloff is Director of the Institute for German and International Family Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany.

I. Scope of Application
II. Judgments, Recognition, Enforcement
III. Indirect Jurisdiction
IV. Grounds for Refusal
V. Trust Management: Establishment of Relations Between Contracting States
VI. The HCCH (Hague) System for Choice of Court Agreements: Relationship of the HCCH Judgments Convention 2019 to the HCCH 2005 Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
VII. “The HCCH (Hague) System” and “the Brussels System”: Relations to the Brussels and Lugano Regime
Part II: Prospects for the World
VIII. European Union
IX. North America
X. South European Neighbouring and EU Candidate Countries
XI. Middle East and North Africa (including Gulf Cooperation Council)
XII. Sub-Saharan Africa (including Commonwealth of Nations)
XIII. Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)
XIV. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
XV. China (including Belt and Road Initiative)
Part III: Outlook
XVI. Lessons from the Genesis of the HCCH Judgments Project
XVII. International Commercial Arbitration and Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters: Towards an Integrated Approach
XVIII. General Synthesis and Future Perspectives