The ‘Judgments Project’ was a process of multilateral discussions and negotiations between the members of the Hague Conference on Private International Law between 1992 and 2001. Its aim was to create unified legal provisions regulating the exercise of international direct jurisdiction and ensuring the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. This project was a remarkable and important project for various reasons. By creating a global regime enabling the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters across borders between the Hague Conference members (including, among others, the United States of America and the Member States of the European Community) and third States, it would have filled a massive gap in the international legal order at the time. In addition, the Hague Judgments Project was the first serious attempt by the Hague Conference since the 19th century to unify rules of international (direct) jurisdiction (sometimes simply referred to as ‘jurisdiction’), concerning the power of courts to hear civil and commercial proceedings with an international element and render a judgment against the defendant, on a large scale. This ambitious project to create a global convention on jurisdiction and judgments failed, however, after almost 10 years of preparatory work, and an enormous amount of resources on the part of both the Hague Conference Member States and the secretariat of the Hague Conference, the Permanent Bureau, had been spent.