This book presents the past, the present and the alternative conceivable futures of the Lugano model: i.e., the form of cooperation in international civil procedure between Switzerland and the EU that was born in 1988 with the Lugano convention "adopting" the model of the 1968 Brussels convention.



The new 2007 Lugano Convention, establishing parallelism with the Brussels I Regulation (Reg. 44/2001), had just entered into force in Switzerland in 2010 when it faced a new challenge in the form of the Recast Regulation (Reg. 1215/2012).



In 2014, CIVPRO (University of Bern), CCR (University of Luzern) and the SICL (Lausanne) invited professors, researchers, civil officers and practitioners from all over Europe to discuss the future of European civil procedure. Four keynote speeches made contributions, provoking a fruitful and comprehensive discussion which resulted in noteworthy roundtable analysis. The book, with contributions in English and in German, is unique in both its format and content.