As announced on this blog, the second edition of the European Association of Private International Law Winter School will take place in Como between 10 and 15 February 2025.
Organised by the University of Insubria, in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Murcia, the 2025 edition of the Winter School will be devoted to multistate torts.
The lectures, in English, will address a range of issues relating to cross-border torts.
The first part of the course discusses vertically the current rules and ongoing projects, taking into consideration the topic of jurisdiction parallel proceedings, applicable law and recognition and enforcement of judgments. The second part deals horizontally most controversial, new and debated torts, such as online defamation, crypto assets, AI, patents, climate change, competition law, in a frame of human rights protection. The final lectures, in the form of parallel sessions, deal with topics outside torts that give rise to similar problems of multiplicity. Both Hague conventions and EU legislative measures will be examined, with an approach combining theory and practice.
There will be ample room for interaction with (and among) the participants.
The Scientific Committee is composed by Silvia Marino, University of Insubria; Javier Carrascosa González, University of Murcia; Anna Wysocka-Bar, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
The teaching staff consists of Olivera Boskovic (Professor, Université Paris Cité); Benedetta Cappiello (Associate Professor, University of Milan); Javier Carrascosa González (Professor, University of Murcia); Caterina D’Osualdo (European Commission, Seconded National Expert in DG JUST); Anatol Dutta (Professor, LudwigMaximilian University of Munich); Francisco José Garcimartín Alférez (Professor, University Autónoma of Madrid); Satu Heikkilä (Administrative law Judge, Associate Professor, University of Lapland); Paivi Hirvelä (Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Legal Senior Advisor); Thomas Kadner Graziano (Professor, University of Geneva); Patrick Kinsch (Honorary Professorat the University of Luxembourg); Magdalena Lickova (Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union); Tobias Lutzi (Professor, University of Augsburg); Marta Pertegás Sender (Professor, Maastricht University / University of Antwerp); Ilaria Pretelli (Senior Research Fellow, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law); Nadia Rusinova (Lecturer, The Hague University, attorney at law); Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (Professor, University of Edinburgh); Louise Ellen Teitz (Professor, Roger Williams University); Geert Van Calster (Professor, KU Leuven); Anna Wysocka-Bar (Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University in Kraków); Sylwia Żyrek (Deputy Director of EU Law Department at Chancellery of Prime Minister ofPoland); Silvia Marino (University of Insubria, director of the School).
The detailed programme can be found here.
The School is aimed primarily at law graduates, law practitioners and PhD candidates with an interest in private international law, EU law and human rights law. A online teaser seminar presenting the Winter School will take place on 2 December 2024, 6 p.m. CET. Those interested in participating to the online seminar are invited to send an email to eapilws@gmail.com in order to receive the link to the meeting.
The School is co-funded by the EACEA under the Jean Monnet Module: European Private International Law: Recent Trends and Challenges (EuPILART), and by the Insubria International Summer/Winter School Programme.
Those interested in attending the School are invited to submit their application through this form before 25 January 2025.
Admission fees are as follows:
- early bird (by 12 December 2024): 180 Euros;
- ordinary: 250 Euros.
A reduced fee of 80 Euros is offered to one student from any of the Universities that are partners in the project on the base of the “first come first served” rule. A student from a Partner University is a PhD student enrolled in a PhD Course offered by either the University of Insubria, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków or the University of Murcia, or a young scholar (below the age of 32) working in one of those Universities.
For further information: eapilws@gmail.com.