ContentsIntroduction 1Youseph Farah and Elisabetta Bergamini1 Arbitration and anti-suit injunction pre- and post-Brexit 8Hong-Lin Yu2 Finding reason in the interface between the system of Brussels I recast andarbitration following the decision of West Tankers and recent development 33Youseph Farah and Sara Hourani3 A critical assessment of the ever-expansive realm of party autonomy underArticle 25 of Brussels I (recast) 62Youseph Farah4 The EU approach to parallel litigation in civil matters 81Pietro Franzina5 Class action and collective redress in EU private international law (a studyin the field of torts) 106Jeremy Heymann6 The prospects of enforcing settlement agreements under the SingaporeConvention on mediation - a comparative study of Nigeria and China 118Pontian Okoli and Hong-Lin Yu7 International sales of goods and Rome I Regulation 149Indira Carr8 The Rome I Regulation and the relevance of non-state law 166Olugbenga Bamodu9 Article 4 of the Rome I Regulation on the applicable law in the absence ofchoice - methodological analysis, considerations 186Gülin Güneysu-Güngör10 The determination of the lex arbitri in decentralised blockchain-basedarbitration: proceedings functioning in a legal vacuum in the absence of achosen seat? 206Sara Hourani11 Behavioural economics and EU private international law 225Johannes Ungerer12 Choice of law for tort claims 251Peter Stone13 The exclusion of defamation and privacy from the Rome II Regulation onchoice of law in tort 275David Kenny and Daniel Gilligan14 The cultural wars of the European company and of private internationallaw models and the EU single market: are we about to converge into aharmonised regulatory model for the free movement of companies in theEU? 296Marios Koutsias15 How to make EU cross-border successions easier: is regulation 650/2012successful? 317Elisabetta Bergamini16 Pursuing the best interests of the child through connecting factors: the caseof EU rules on jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility 335Francesco Deana.