The prospect of attracting foreign commercial litigants to German courts in the wake of Brexit has led to a renaissance of English-language commercial litigation in Germany. Leading the way is the Frankfurt District Court, where – as part of the ‘Justizinitiative Frankfurt' – a new...

This article describes the competence, the organization and the legal nature of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal which were created by the Versailles Peace Treaty and other peace treaties after the First World War. It specifically analyses the case-law of these tribunals regarding issues of private...