Diversity of Enforcement Titles in the EU

Part I: General Considerations and Classification of Enforcement Titles.- Enforcement Titles under Brussels I bis Regulation from National to EU Frameworks.- Enforcement titles in the EU: Common Core After All?.- Part II: Judgment.- Types of Judgments According to Different Criteria.- Is a Judgment Always a Judgment? A Dutch-Belgian Comparative Perspective.- Comparative View on the Divergence of Structure and Substance of Judgements.- Comparative Issues Concerning the Determination of Interest.- Part III: Effects of Judgments.- Effects of Judgments in Cross-Border Perspective.- Searching for Res Judicata at the Edges of National Procedural Autonomy.- The Effects of Judgments and Court Settlements in Cross-border Collective Redress and the Brussels I bis Regulation: Houston, We Have a Problem!.-Enforceability and Enforcement Appeals - Continental Law.- Pendency Rules.- Related Actions.- Provisional Measures with aCross-Border Element: Their Issuance, Co-existence, Recognition, and Enforcement.- Part IV: Court Settlements and Authentic Instruments.- The European Dimension of Court Settlements: Open Issues and Regulatory Needs.- Authentic Instruments.- Part V: Other Cross-Border Considerations.- Due Process and Cross-Border Enforcement in Lithuania and Portugal.- Recognition and Enforcement of EU Enforcement Titles in Albania as '3rd Country' and Vice-Versa.

Prof. dr. Vesna Rijavec is vice-dean and full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia, where she holds the chair for Civil Procedure Law and teaches courses on European Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation, Non-Contentious Civil Proceedings and Arbitration Law. She has held numerous positions (e.g. member of the Slovenian judiciary council, former dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor) and was involved in many academic exchanges and visiting lectures abroad (Graz, Hamburg, Gottingen, Kyoto etc.). Vesna Rijavec has coordinated several EU-Justice projects, the results of which helped shape EU legislation. Before entering academia she was employed as a judge at the district court in Maribor. At the national level, Vesna Rijavec is recognised as a leading authority in the area of civil procedure and private international law, having written a multitude of commentaries on those subjects and being involved in preparatory work on newor revised legislation.

 

Dr. Wendy Kennett is a professor at the University of Cardiff, UK, where she holds a Chair in the School of Law and Politics. She completed her undergraduate studies at New Hall, Cambridge and postgraduate study as a William Senior student at Clare College. Wendy Kennett obtained her doctorate at Cambridge University. She previously taught at the universities of Nottingham, Cambridge and Keele and the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus. Her primary research interest is the field of Comparative Law and European Civil Procedure. She contributed to the ELI/UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure and is currently participating in a global project on Comparative Procedural Law and Justice managed by the Max-Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. At the national level, Wendy Kennet has participated in work to reform the law on civil enforcement and to raise standards in