Preventive Instruments of Social Governance

Civil Procedure and Civil Law
Miyuki Watanabe: Protection of Collective Interests in Japan - Group Litigation for Injunction - Alexander Bruns: Injunctive Corporate Governance? - Julia Caroline Scherpe: Interim Measures in German and English Civil Procedure - Preconditions and Standard of Proof - Tomohiro Yoshimasa: Preventive Measures in Contract Law - Recent Debate over "Duty to Mitigate" in Japan - Stefan Thönissen: Preventive Administration of Justice and Notarial Counselling - Alisher Umirdinov: Dispute Preventive Measures in International Investment Arbitration

Labour Law
Sebastian Krebber: Elements of Prevention of Conflicts and Disputes in Labour and Employment Law
Intellectual Property Law
Masabumi Suzuki: Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement - A New Trend in Japan? - Maximilian Haedicke: Prevention of copyright infringements in conflicts over new technologies by introducing technology-specific rules? The example of the allocation of rights in Internet-Protocol-Television (IPTV) and Online-Videorecorders (OVR) in the era of convergence of transmission paths - Roman Würtenberger: Prevention by Procedure - Law of Evidence as a Means to Avoid Patent-Related Legal Actions

Private International Law
Jan von Hein: Punitive Damages in European and Domestic Private International Law - Dai Yokomizo: Regulation of Cross-Border Financial Transactions by Conflict of Laws - Shiho Kato: Recent Developments in Rules on Choice of Court Agreements in Japan - New Codification and Remaining Problems