Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-x

Bibliographical Note

pp xi-xiv

Contributors

pp xv-xvi

SECTION I - REMEMBERING ARTHUR TAYLOR VON MEHREN

pp 1-2

1 - The Last Euro-American Legal Scholar? Arthur Taylor von Mehren (1922–2006)

pp 3-5

2 - Arthur Taylor von Mehren and the Joseph Story Research Fellowship

pp 6-9

3 - Building Bridges between Legal Systems: The Life and Work of Arthur Taylor von Mehren

pp 10-26

SECTION II - TRANSATLANTIC LITIGATION AND JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS

pp 27-28

4 - Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions

pp 29-62

5 - The Hague Convention on Choice-of-Court Agreements: Was It Worth the Effort?

pp 63-88

6 - Lis Pendens, Negative Declaratory-Judgment Actions and the First-in-Time Principle

pp 89-100

7 - Recent German Jurisprudence on Cooperation with the United States in Civil and Commercial Matters: A Defense of Sovereignty or Judicial Protectionism?

pp 101-125

8 - Collective Litigation German Style: The Act on Model Proceedings in Capital Market Disputes

pp 126-150

SECTION III - CHOICE OF LAW IN TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIPS

pp 151-152

9 - Party Autonomy in the Private International Law of Contracts: Transatlantic Convergence and Economic Efficiency

pp 153-183

10 - The Law Applicable to Intellectual Property Rights: Is the Lex Loci Protectionis a Pertinent Choice-of-Law Approach?

pp 184-219

11 - The Extraterritorial Reach of Antitrust Law between Legal Imperialism and Harmonious Coexistence: The Empagran Judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court from a European Perspective

pp 220-242

12 - Mandatory Elements of the Choice-of-Law Process in International Arbitration: Some Reflections on Teubnerian and Kelsenian Legal Theory

pp 243-266

13 - Application of Foreign Law to Determine Punitive Damages: A Recent U.S. Court Contribution to Choice-of-Law Evolution

pp 267-290

Index

pp 291-302