Germany On October 7, 2024, Germany’s Legal Venue Strengthening Act was signed into law, establishing commercials courts in Germany. There is a 500,000 euro value…
Category: International Courts
The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (“QICDRC”) hosted the 5th Meeting of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (“SIFoCC”) from April 20…
Judge James Michael Peck, former bankruptcy judge of the Southern District of New York, was recently appointed to serve as an International Judge on the…
Between common law courts in other nations, and the development of English language commercial courts internationally, it could be valuable for U.S. business courts to…
When I began the Business Courts Blog in late 2018, I posted two separate pages of links to business court reports and studies issued by…
Prof. Dr. Giesela Rühl recently posted on a proposed German International Commercial Court. In discussing the new legislation to create an English language court for…
The Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC) was created in 2017. Its goal is to provide a forum for communication and collaboration between commercial…
In his February 11, 2022 Blackstone Lecture, The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Ian Duncan Burnett (Baron Burnett of Maldon), made the following…
As our readers know, a number of courts in non-English speaking countries have created English language commercial courts. One such example is the Netherlands Commercial…
On November 1, 2020, two new Commercial Courts were initiated in Stuttgart and Mannheim, Germany. A link to these courts’ website can be found here.…