Available now: Full recording of the University of Bonn/HCCH Pre-Conference Video Roundtable on The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention: Prospects for Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters between the EU and Third Countries

Steve Hedley on 30 November 2020 — Leave a Comment

“On 29 October 2o20, the University of Bonn and the HCCH co-hosted a video roundtable on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. This video roundtable explored the prospects of the Convention from a particular perspective, and this was the perspective of the relations between the EU and third states: neighbouring states, trade partners in particular, but also other states …” (more)

[Matthias Weller, Conflicts of Laws .net, 30 November]

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