The Convention of the Hague of 2 July 2019 on the recognition of foreign sentences: Approaches and comments

• Author: Dimitris Liakopoulos
• Position: Full Professor of European Union Law at the Fletcher School-Tufts University (MA in international law and MA of Arts in Law and diplomacy)
• Pages: 5-19

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Studies and Articles

Dimitris LIAKOPOULOS

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Abstract: The present work deals with the conference and the adoption of the Hague of 2 July 2019

not entry in force which is concentrated in the analysis of the r ecognition and execution of decisions

of civil and commercial matters in the international private EU law.

Keyworks: Convention of Hague of 2019; execution of sentences; Reg. 1215/2012; CJEU

1. Introduction: Genesis and Purpose of the Convention

The 22nd Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

closed, on 2 July 2019, with the adoption of the convention on the recognition and

enforcement of foreign decisions in c ivil and commercial matters, also known as

Judgments Convention.

The event is significant to more than one title. It is, on the one hand, because the

Conference, after a pause of twelve years, has returned to play the most

characteristic of its tasks, confirming itself capable of complementing the work of

maintenance of the existing conventions with a properly normative action. The

adoption of the convention is significant, on the other hand, because with it comes

to completion one of the most ambitious projects that the Conference has ever

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Full Professor of European Union Law at the Fletcher School-Tufts University (MA in international

law and M A of Arts in Law and diplomacy). Full Professor of International and European Criminal

and Procedural Law at the De Haagse Hogenschool-The Hague. Attorney at Law a New York and

Bruxelles. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1048-6468. The present work is updated until July 2019.

Corresponding author: prof.d.liakopoulos.984@gmail.com.

AUDJ, Vol. 15, No. 2/2019, pp. 5-19

The Convention of the Hague of 2 July 2019

on the Recognition of Foreign Sentences:

Approaches and Comments