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Burkhard Hess, International Dispute Resolution in the Twenty-First Century, General Course on Private International Law
This general course addresses the present state of dispute resolution and explores emerging developments from an international and comparative perspective. It focuses primarily on international dispute settlement (cross-border constellations), but also adopts a comparative procedural law perspective by examining important developments within national civil procedures.
The course starts by looking at developments over the last decades, including different methods of dispute resolution: litigation, arbitration, ADR, and the expansion of ODR. It considers different levels of dispute settlement by exploring international, regional, and domestic developments, as well as different approaches to dispute resolution, including individual claims vs. collective redress and the use of civil courts to enforce public interests. This first step allows the research area to be delineated. The next part addresses current trends in dispute resolution, including constitutionalization, efficiency, and privatization.
The course then delves into various layers and elements of dispute resolution, exploring litigation at domestic and regional levels, with a particular focus on cross-border litigation. Subsequent parts address other forms of dispute settlement, including arbitration and ADR. The concluding chapter looks towards the future, asking what we can anticipate in dispute resolution in the coming years: crises, (digital) transformations, increasing privatization and commercialization? How will the protection of subjective rights and vulnerable persons be addressed? What will be the future methods of comparative procedural law? These are the questions the course strives to answer.
This general course addresses the present state of dispute resolution and explores emerging developments from an international and comparative perspective. It focuses primarily on international dispute settlement (cross-border constellations), but also adopts a comparative procedural law perspective by examining important developments within national civil procedures.
The course starts by looking at developments over the last decades, including different methods of dispute resolution: litigation, arbitration, ADR, and the expansion of ODR. It considers different levels of dispute settlement by exploring international, regional, and domestic developments, as well as different approaches to dispute resolution, including individual claims vs. collective redress and the use of civil courts to enforce public interests. This first step allows the research area to be delineated. The next part addresses current trends in dispute resolution, including constitutionalization, efficiency, and privatization.
The course then delves into various layers and elements of dispute resolution, exploring litigation at domestic and regional levels, with a particular focus on cross-border litigation. Subsequent parts address other forms of dispute settlement, including arbitration and ADR. The concluding chapter looks towards the future, asking what we can anticipate in dispute resolution in the coming years: crises, (digital) transformations, increasing privatization and commercialization? How will the protection of subjective rights and vulnerable persons be addressed? What will be the future methods of comparative procedural law? These are the questions the course strives to answer.
Price: $199.00
Pages: 464
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Series: Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law - Recueil des cours
Publication Date:
November 5, 2026
ISBN: 9789004782747
Format: Hardcover
Burkhard Hess, born on 17 July 1961 in Worms, citizen of Germany.
Since October 2023, Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Vienna. In 2012, (founding) Director of the former Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. Honorary Professor at Heidelberg University.
Studied at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne and München. First and Second State Exams (with distinction) in 1987 and in 1992. Assistant at the University of Munich. 1990 PhD (summa cum laude); 1995 Dr Jur. Habil. at the University of Munich (venia legendi in civil law, civil procedural law, private international law, European law and public international law).
1995-1996 Professorship for Civil Law at the University of Erlangen. 1996-2003 Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at the University of Tübingen. Dean of the Law Faculty (2000-2002). From 2003 to 2012, Professor of Law at Heidelberg University, Faculty of Law and Director of the Institute for Private International, Foreign and Economic Law, Dean from 2006-2008. Judge (part-time) at the Higher Court of Appeal Karlsruhe (2009-2012).
Doctor honoris causa at the University of Ghent (2015), the International University of Thessaloniki (2016) and the University of Lisbon (2023).
2002 Guest Professor at Renmin University (Bejing); 2006-2009 Guest Professor (professeur invité) at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne); 2009 Guest Professor at the University of Georgetown, Washington DC; 2016 and 2017 Scholar-in-Residence at the New York University School of Law; 2018 Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University. Since 2021, Member of the Peking University Law School Distinguished Global Faculty.
Honorary President of the German Association of International Procedural Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht); Vice-President Europe of the International Association of Procedural Law; Member of the Institut de Droit International; Member of the Advisory Board on Private International Law (German Federal Ministry of Justice); External Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts; Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Member of the Academia Europaea; Honorary Corresponding Fellow of the “Associazione italiana fra gli studiosi del processo civile”; Corresponding Non-Resident Foreign Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute; Member of the “Comité français de droit international privé”.
Acts regularly as an expert for private international and procedural law for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, Deutscher Bundestag and the IMF. Extensive practice and experience as a consultant and legal expert in international litigation and arbitration.
Since October 2023, Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Vienna. In 2012, (founding) Director of the former Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. Honorary Professor at Heidelberg University.
Studied at the universities of Würzburg, Lausanne and München. First and Second State Exams (with distinction) in 1987 and in 1992. Assistant at the University of Munich. 1990 PhD (summa cum laude); 1995 Dr Jur. Habil. at the University of Munich (venia legendi in civil law, civil procedural law, private international law, European law and public international law).
1995-1996 Professorship for Civil Law at the University of Erlangen. 1996-2003 Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at the University of Tübingen. Dean of the Law Faculty (2000-2002). From 2003 to 2012, Professor of Law at Heidelberg University, Faculty of Law and Director of the Institute for Private International, Foreign and Economic Law, Dean from 2006-2008. Judge (part-time) at the Higher Court of Appeal Karlsruhe (2009-2012).
Doctor honoris causa at the University of Ghent (2015), the International University of Thessaloniki (2016) and the University of Lisbon (2023).
2002 Guest Professor at Renmin University (Bejing); 2006-2009 Guest Professor (professeur invité) at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne); 2009 Guest Professor at the University of Georgetown, Washington DC; 2016 and 2017 Scholar-in-Residence at the New York University School of Law; 2018 Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University. Since 2021, Member of the Peking University Law School Distinguished Global Faculty.
Honorary President of the German Association of International Procedural Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht); Vice-President Europe of the International Association of Procedural Law; Member of the Institut de Droit International; Member of the Advisory Board on Private International Law (German Federal Ministry of Justice); External Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts; Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law; Member of the Academia Europaea; Honorary Corresponding Fellow of the “Associazione italiana fra gli studiosi del processo civile”; Corresponding Non-Resident Foreign Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute; Member of the “Comité français de droit international privé”.
Acts regularly as an expert for private international and procedural law for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, Deutscher Bundestag and the IMF. Extensive practice and experience as a consultant and legal expert in international litigation and arbitration.