Memorial Symposium for Arthur T. von Mehren on 24 November 2007

MPI for Comparative and Intl. Private Law, Hamburg 24.11.2007

A symposium held on 24 November 2007 featured the presentation of a commemorative work honouring the former Harvard law school professor Arthur von Mehren, deceased 2006. The volume contains contributions authored by 12 German legal scholars who had the opportunity to spend a year at the Harvard Law School with Arthur von Mehren as Joseph Story Fellows. The work is titled "Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World" and was edited by Eckart Gottschalk (CMS Hasche Sigle), Ralf Michaels (Duke University, Durham, N.C.), Giesela Rühl (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law/European University Institute Florence) and Jan von Hein (University of Trier). As part of the symposium, four of the former Joseph Story fellows presented their papers from the commemorative volume: Christian Thiele, Latham & Watkins, spoke on "The Hague Choice of Court Convention - Was it Worth the Effort?", Martin Gebauer, University of Heidelberg, addressed "Lis Pendens, Negative Declaratory-Judgment Actions and the First-in-Time Principle". Dietmar Baetge delivered a lecture on "The Extraterritorial Reach of Antitrust Law between Legal Imperialism and Harmonious Coexistence: The Empagran Judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court from a European Perspective". Oliver Furtak discussed "Foreign Law to Determine Punitive Damages: A Recent U.S. Court Contribution to Choice-of Law Evolution". In addition to the former Joseph Story Fellows and numerous research fellows from the Institute, the wife of the honouree, Joan von Mehren, and two of their sons, Philip und Peter von Mehren, were in attendance and received the commemorative work on behalf of their husband and father.
 
Bibliographical Details: Eckart Gottschalk/Ralf Michaels/Giesela Rühl/Jan von Hein, Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York/Melbourne 2007, 302 pages.