Edited by Astrid Stadler, Professor and Chair in Civil Law, Procedural Law and Private International Law, and Comparative Law, University of Konstanz, Germany, Emmanuel Jeuland, Director, Sorbonne Institute of Legal Research and Professor of Private and Criminal Law, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, France and Vincent Smith, Assistant Professor, ESCP Business School, UK and France; Visiting Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK; Solicitor, (England and Wales)