This book discusses the globalization and harmonization of civil procedure from the angles of legal history, law and economics and European policy, including interaction with projects aimed at the harmonization of civil procedure.

Provides a unique compilation of original papers by recognized international experts in the field of civil procedure

Includes not only valuable insights in global and European harmonization of civil procedure, but also legislative and practical developments and policy perspectives from eight different jurisdictions

Combines different perspectives on the issue of globalization and harmonization of civil procedure, including perspectives of legal history, policy and law and economics, as well as the interaction with private (international) law

Inhalt
Civil litigation in a globalising world an introduction.- Fundamental principles of civil procedure: order out of chaos.- Harmonisation of civil procedure: a historical and comparative perspective.- A Law and Economics view on harmonisation of procedural law.- Harmonisation of civil procedure policy perspectives.- Harmonisation of civil procedure and the interaction with private international law.- Harmonisation of civil procedure and the interaction with substantive private law.- Procedural harmonisation in a European context.- Harmonised civil procedure in a world of structural divergences? Lessons learned from the CEPEJ evaluations.- United States Harmonisation and Voluntarism: The role of elites in creating an influential national model, the Federal Rules of Civil.- Switzerland between cosmopolitanism and parochialism in civil litigation.- Globalisation and Scottish Law.- A Dutch perspective on civil litigation and its harmonisation.- The German approach to the globalisation and harmonisation of civil procedure. Balancing national particularities and international open-mindedness.- Convergence of civil procedure systems in Europe. Comments from a Belgian perspective.- The French approach to the globalisation and harmonisation of civil procedure.- Romanian civil procedure. The reform cycles.- Closing comments: harmonisation or globalisation of civil procedure?