Xandra Kramer is Professor of Private Law and European Civil Procedure at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Stefaan Voet is Professor of Law the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven, Belgium. Lorenz Ködderitzsch is Assistant General Counsel at the Law Department EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Belgium. Magdalena Tulibacka is Faculty Lecturer at Emory Law School Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Burkhard Hess is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg.