The Austrian Code of Civil Procedure (“ZPO”) contains a special part dedicated to arbitral proceedings (Sections 577 to 618 ZPO). This forms the Austrian lex arbitri.
Section 598 ZPO provides that each party in...more
Franz Schwarz delivered the 4th Bergsten Lecture on the subject of “Systemic Case Management and Burden of Proof”. Over 400 registered attendees, including senior members of the Austrian and German judiciary and academia,...more
Today, nearly twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe play an increasingly important role in the world’s economy. As the volume of global trade grows, and as the...more