Burkhard Hess is the founding and executive director of the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg. Paul Oberhammer is Professor in Law at the University of Vienna. Thomas Pfeiffer is Professor in Law at the University of Heidelberg.
In summary, this is a useful work which details a necessary phase in the renovation of the EIR and provides a snapshot of the state of European domestic laws and jurisprudence in the way they have responded to the framework set out in the EIR and the problems of its implementation. The highlights of this text are clearly the extensive analysis, the summaries of national reports, the very useful summaries of the jurisprudence and the bibliography for further research, which underline its great utility. An index to the analysis and table of abbreviations used are also included in the work. For these reasons, this work should appeal to anyone interested in European insolvency, whether academic, judge, practitioner or policy-maker. -- Paul J. Omar International Company and Commercial Law Review, Volume 25, Issue 8, 2014