EAPIL Blog: The Year 2024 in Review
It’s been another busy year for the EAPIL blog.
More than 300 new posts have been published over the past twelve months. Around 80 of them focused on cases brought before the Court of the Justice of the EU, the European Court of Human Rights and domestic judicial authorities. There were fewer posts on case law in previous years, but we realized readers are especially interested in judicial developments and tried to devote more energy on the latter.
While most posts were prepared by the blog’s permanent team of editors, we were especially happy to publish contributions written by no less than 25 guests. We never had so many! Warm thanks to all guests. And thanks in advance to those who plan to contribute in the future: new submissions are always welcome (information on how to contribute can be found here).
2024 was also a year of on-line symposia, i.e., series of posts on the same topic, written by different contributors and published in the space of a few days. The blog managed to host four such symposia in 2024 (we only had one or two per year in the previous years), namely on the rulings of the Court of Justice in Inkreal and Air Berlin, the ruling of the UK Supreme Court in UniCredit Bank and, recently, the book of Ekaterina Aristova, on Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts. A big thank you to Gilles Cuniberti and Ugljesa Grusic for organizing the symposia!
Interaction with readers through comments on individual posts was also intense, and always enriching. On average, one third of our posts formed the object of a comment in 2024. Anna Wysocka-Bar’s post on the Hantoch case (The CJEU on Subsidiary Jurisdiction in Succession Matters) and Erik Sinander’s post on The Court of Justice on the Subrogation of Forum Selection Clauses were among the most commented posts.
The most read posts of 2024 include Gilles Cuniberti’s French Supreme Court Retains Jurisdiction Over Paternity Claim against Alain Delon, Lydia Lundstedt’s Foreign Patent Disputes under the Brussels I bis Regulation: AG Emiliou’s Opinion, Marion Ho-Dac’s The EU AI Act and Private International Law: A First Look, Matthias Lehmann’s A Conflict-of-Laws Rule for Companies at Last? – The CJEU in Edil Work 2, Horatia Muir Watt and Dominique Bureau’s Inkreal: Jurisdictional Barrier-crossing in Domestic Cases: A Threefold Critique, and Vincent Richard’s CJEU Rules on the Material Scope of the Brussels I bis Regulation, on the Mahá case.
We were delighted to witness, for the fourth year in a row, an increase in the number of visits, both through the website and through our LinkedIn page. We were also happy to learn that 100 more regular visitors decided to subscribe to the blog to be notified of new posts.
So, once again, huge thanks from the editors to the readers, the guests, the subscribers and all those following us on social media. And all the best for 2025!