About the Author

Edited by Jan M. Smits, Professor of Private Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Jaakko Husa, Professor in Law and Globalisation, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland, Catherine Valcke, Full Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada and Madalena Narciso is a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, Belgium