Event Summary: Special Commission on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

On 16-24 February, the Special Commission on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (the “Judgments Project”) met for the second time in The Hague, on the grounds of the Peace Palace. Assistant Editors of the ILA Reporter, Reyna Ge and Marina Kofman, were fortunate to assist in this meeting, in the capacity of Recording Secretary and Assistant respectively. The meeting was successful in making progress in the drafting of final and general clauses for the future Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, as well as featuring fruitful discussions on issues explored in the previous meeting of the Special Commission on matters such as the scope of the future Convention and the bases for recognition and enforcement