Product Description: English summary: Against the background of continuous but fragmentary legislation of the European Community in the field of private law, this work pursues an integrative approach. In a comprehensive collection of more than 470 entries, it treats the various aspects of European private law in light of their historical and comparative law dimensions as well as of the harmonization of European law...read more

Product Description: English summary: How can the parties in a legal dispute which is subject to an arbitration agreement be stopped from using the interface of the mutually exclusive jurisdictions of state court proceedings and arbitration in order to evade the proceedings completely or to have the opportunity to file a lawsuit twice? After systematizing and evaluating the rather vague principle of bad faith in paragraph 242 of the German Civil Code, Martin Illmer provides a solution to stop such attempts by using the precise and clear mechanisms of procedural law...read more