Nadia Rusinova has just released “Practical Handbook on EU Family Law. Part 2: Litigating International Child Abduction Cases under the 1980 Hague Convention in the EU”. This tool was designed for lawyers and judges working with international child abduction cases in Europe. It is free and practice-oriented resource aimed at making cross-border family law clearer, […]
The Ravenna Summer School on Cross-Border Litigation (Università di Bologna) is organizing its III Reunion on 19-20 November 2026 in Bologna (Italy). The program of the reunion will include two sessions dedicated to the presentations of young researchers: Session I: Rules of cross-border jurisdiction in times of conflicts and growing unilateralism Session II: Recognition and enforcement […]
The European Commission (EC) has just closed the procedure in which it assessed complaints concerning incompatibility of French compensatory levy of Article 913(3) French Civil Code with the Succession Regulation. French compensatory levy mechanism In 2021, the French Civil Code was amended by adding the third paragraph to its Article 913. This provision reads as […]
On 8 September 2026 Andrea Bonomi and the Centre for Comparative, European and International Law of the University of Lausanne are organizing a conference titled „Wills substitutes” in comparative and private international law. Speakers include: Michael W. Galligan (New York), Edward Reed (London) and Jeffrey Talpis (Montreal), Charlotte Wendland (Munich), Sophie Lambert (Aix-Marseille), François Derème […]
On 15 and 16 October 2026 the EUSuccess Project will host a conference entitled EU Succession Regulation: First Decade of Application, Strengths, Challenges, Future Outlooks taking place at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). The event will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss functioning in practice of the […]
A new Handbook titled ‘European Civil Procedure’ edited by Xandra Kramer, Stefaan Voet and Adriani Dori has been published by De Gruyter Brill. The blurb reads as follows: European civil procedure has emerged as an independent and dynamic field of policy making, research and teaching. Influenced by human rights law, EU consumer law, and resulting […]
On 20 March 2026 the Supreme Administrative Court in Poland handed down the decision following Cupriak-Trojan case (C-713/23, commented on this blog within an on-line symposium here, here, here, here, here and here; and additionally here; Opinion of the AG de la Tour in this case was also commented on the blog – here). Facts […]
On 26 March 2026 the Court of Justice, with no hearing and no opinion, handed down the judgment in Isergartler case (C-618/24) concerning the very notion of ‘succession’ under the Succession Regulation. The preliminary question originated from Austria. Facts of the Case At the heart of the case lies the provision of § 677 Austrian Civil […]
This post was prepared together with Aleksandra Karlińska (student researcher in EUSuccess Project at Jagiellonian University). This post describes the outcome of the OP case, after the ruling given by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-21/22), back in front of the referring court, as in 2025 the Regional Court in Opole (II […]
This post was written by Anna Wysocka-Bar (Jagiellonian University). It is the fourth contribution to the EAPIL on-line symposium on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Cupriak-Trojan. The previous posts, by Laima Vaige, Alina Tryfonidou and Elizabeth Perry, can be found here, here and here, respectively. In this post I would […]
The Institute of Justice in Warsaw will host on 9 December 2025 a one-day conference titled: EU Succession Regulation – A Decade in Application. The first decade of the Regulation’s application, highlighting its impact and future challenges, will be comprehensively assessed. The event will bring together representative of legal professions and scholars from various parts […]
On 12-13 December 2025, the second edition of the (unofficial) Reunion of the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-border litigation and international arbitration will take place. The program of the reunion includes a special session on New perspectives in cross-border litigation and international arbitration, dedicated to the presentations of young researchers The presentations will be selected […]
Nadia Rusinova has recently published an open access book titled Practical Handbook on EU Family Law. Part I: Key Concepts, Legal Terminology, and CJEU Case Law in Cross-Border Judicial Cooperation (2025).The Handbook can be downloaded from the Author’s website here. The blurb reads as follows: The EU Family Law Handbook is a unique, practitioner-focused resource, […]
This post was prepared together with Sofiya Kernychna PhD (Jagiellonian University). This post aims at presenting introduction of online marriage in Ukraine and the attitude towards its recognition in neighboring Poland. Digitalisation of Public Services in Ukraine In 2019 the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine introduced a resolution creating a web portal, a state […]
On 27 March 2025 the Court of Justice handed down the judgment in the Ławida case (C-57/24) concerning the scope of jurisdiction to receive declaration on waiver of succession under Article 13 of the Succession Regulation. The preliminary question originates from Poland. Facts of the Case BA is a minor habitually resident in Poland. The deceased […]
On 7 November 2024 the Court of Justice handed down its judgement in Hantoch case (C‑291/23) in which it interpreted jurisdictional rules of Article 10 of the Succession Regulation. The preliminary question originated from Germany, from Landgericht Düsseldorf. Background of the Case and the Doubt of the Referring Court The deceased lived and worked for […]
Victor Contreras Kong (Rabobank Private Banking) and Ebbe Rogge (Leiden University – Leiden Law School) have recently posted on SSRN an article titled Sustainability-Linked Products: International Private Law Standards, published in the Hazelhoff Research Paper Series. The (final, edited version of this) article was published in Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation. The abstract […]
Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford and Notre Dame Law School) has published recently his article German Law’s Dilemma with Punitive Damages: German Federal Court of Justice, Judgment of 4 June 1992, Case IX ZR 149/91 (BGHZ 118, 312) on SSRN. The article is included also in the volume edited by James Goudkamp and Eleni Katsampouka titled […]
Giovanni Chiapponi (University of Florence; previously Bologna University and Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg) has published a book titled Interfaces between National and EU Law. Time Limits in Cross-Border Civil Proceedings and Their Impact on the Free Circulation of Judgemen31t. The book is published by Nomos, in the Luxembourg Legal Studies series. The blurb reads: […]
This post was prepared by Tess Bens from University of Vienna. Burkhard Hess and his team at the University of Vienna have finalised an updated version of the Position Paper on the Reform on the Brussels Ibis Regulation of the association. Establishment of the EAPIL Working Group The Brussels Ibis Reform project leading up the […]
A new handbook titled European Judicial Cooperation in Cross-Border Litigation, edited by Paolo Biavati and Michele Angelo Lupoi, has just been published by Bologna University Press. The blurb reads as follows: There is an increasing amount of European legislation in procedural matters, with which legal practitioners from EU member States (and beyond) must deal on […]
The Paris-Saclay University and the law firm Linklaters LLP, in collaboration with Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, are organizing a competition on private international law – Concours de Droit international privé (CDIP). CDIP is designed for students of the first year of the master degree. The language of the competition is French. The timetable of the […]
On 12 October 2023, the Court of Justice of the EU, following an Opinion of the Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona, handed down its long-awaited judgment in OP (C-21/22). The case concerns the application of the Succession Regulation to third States’ nationals, where a bilateral agreement is in place between the Member State whose authorities are seised and the […]
European Law Institute (ELI) has recently launched a new project devoted to the proposal of the EU Regulation on the Recognition of Foreign Filiations. The ELI Project Team wants to scrutinise the rules of the proposal from four specific perspectives: children’s, LGBTI persons’ and women’s fundamental rights, and the underlying EU primary law, especially concerning […]
On 6 July 2023 the Court of Justice issued a judgement in BM v LO (C-462/22). The ruling provides guidance as to the interpretation of Article 3(1)(a) of the Brussels II bis Regulation on matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility. Specifically, it refers to the sixth indent of the provision, whereby, in matters relating to divorce, legal separation […]
On 30 June 2023, the Supreme Court of Poland issued an interlocutory order (II CSKP 1518/22) in a case regarding the enforcement in Poland of a Dutch judgment. The order provides fresh evidence of how the long-lasting tensions between Poland and EU with respect to rule of law and independence of judiciary in Poland is […]
It has already been reported on this blog that EU Commission has launched infringement procedure against Poland for failure to fulfil its obligations under the Brussels II bis Regulation. As stated by the Commission, this “infringement case concerns the non-conformity of the Polish law with the Brussels IIa Regulation, specifically the provisions relating to the enforcement […]
The Special Interest Group on Family and Succession Law of the European Law Institute invites everyone interested to participate in the webinar titled Application of the EU Succession Regulation in the Member States. The webinar will present the results gathered during the five webinars on the application of the EU Succession Regulation in the Member […]
Nikitas Hatzimihail (University of Cyprus) has published on SSRN an article titled Private International Law Matters involving Non-Recognized States: The View from Cyprus. The abstract reads as follows: This essay examines how private-law matters involving non-recognised States and territories under de facto administration from the post-Soviet space are dealt with in Cyprus – a jurisdiction […]
As the Matrimonial Property Regimes Regulation and the Property Regimes of Registered Partnerships have celebrated their fourth anniversary of application recently (namely on 27 January 2023), it might be a good occasion to mention three publications devoted to them, all available in open access. All three books are the product of the EU-funded project EU-Fam Pro. The […]
Uglješa Grušić has published on SSRN a policy brief titled Remote working and European private international law. The brief was prepared for the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) an independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European umbrella organisation. Policy implications listed […]
The Research Group on Private International Law of the University of Silesia (Poland) organizes a conference titled Ukraine-Poland. The Choice of Law Aspects of War and Forced Displacement. The event will be held on 8 December 2022 from 9:00 – 17:30, in a hybrid formula: at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University […]
Społeczna Inicjatywa Narkopolityki – SIN (Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative) is a A Polish association that conducts educational activities on the consequences of drugs use. In 2018 SIN’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were removed as “in violation of Community Standards”. In May 2019 SIN filed a lawsuit against Facebook (namely, Facebook Ireland Limited seated in Ireland, […]
A monograph titled Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships. The role of ordre public, written by Laima Vaige, a senior lecturer in law at Örebro University (Sweden), was published recently by Intersentia. It is included, as volume 53, within the renowned European Family Law series. The abstract of the monograph reads as follows: Same-sex relationships have […]
Cross-Border Litigation in Central Europe – EU Private International Law Before National Court, is the tile of a collection of essays, edited by Csongor István Nagy and just published by Kluwer. Cross-Border Litigation in Central Europe, an indispensable reference book, provides a detailed understanding of the process of seeking justice in cross-border disputes in Central Europe. […]
A book titled Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction. The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings edited by Katarina Trimmings, Anatol Dutta, Constanza Honorati and Mirela Župan has been published recently by Intesentia. The book has been prepared under the auspices of the EU-sponsored POAM project and, therefore, is available not only for purchase in paper format, […]
The new issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 71, Issue 3) is out. As usually, some of articles concern directly or indirectly questions of private international law. A selection of abstracts is provided below. The whole issue is available here. Some of the articles are available in open access. Richard Garnett, Determining the appropriate […]
On 2 June 2022, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down another judgment interpreting the EU Succession Regulation. In the T.N., N.N. case (C-617/20) provisions on the declaration of the waiver of succession were analyzed for the first time. The Opinion to the case was delivered by the AG Szpunar. Background The deceased […]
Ilaria Pretelli, a legal adviser at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, has recently posted on SSRN her paper titled Filiation between Law, Language, and Society The paper was presented this May at a conference on Family Status, Identities and Private International Law. A Critical Assessment in the Light of Fundamental Rights organized by the Swiss […]
On 12 May 2022, the Court of Justice handed down the judgement in the WJ case (C-644/20) interpreting the Hague Protocol of 2007 on the law applicable to maintenance. The case revolved around the determination of the habitual residence of a creditor in the context of a child abduction. Background AP and WJ are Polish nationals who were […]
The Court of Justice of the EU has recently handed down another judgement interpreting the Succession Regulation. The judgement in VA, ZA v TP (C-645/20) of 7 April 2022 followed the view presented earlier in the opinion of AG Sánchez-Bordona. It concerns duties of the courts of Member States in verification of their jurisdiction resulting […]
Toni Marzal and George Pavlakos (both from University of Glasgow) posted recently on SSRN their article titled A Relations-First Approach to Choice of Law. The article forms part of the forthcoming volume Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law edited by Roxana Banu, Michael Green and Ralf Michaels to be published by Oxford University Press. The […]
Guillaume Laganière – Professor of Law at the Université du Québec à Montréal – has recently published a monograph (based on his doctoral dissertation) titled Liability for Transboundary Pollution at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law. The book was published by Hart Publishing within its series Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law. […]
The Special Interest Group on Family and Succession Law of the European Law Institute will host a series of webinars on the Application of the EU Succession Regulation in the Member States, organised by a sub-group on Succession Law chaired by Gregor Christandl of the University of Graz. The five webinars in the series will take […]
Rhona Schuz (Bar-Ilan University) has published an article Comparative Law and the Work of The Hague Conference on Private International Law in relation to Family Law in Ius Comparatum 2022. Ius Comparatum is an open access research series published under the auspices of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). The paper is a written version […]
The new issue of International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 71, Issue 1) is out. Some of articles concern directly or indirectly questions of private international law. Their abstracts are provided below. The whole issue is available here. Some of articles are published in open access. F. Rielaender, Aligning the Brussels Regime with the Representative Actions Directive […]
The periodical Polski Proces Cywilny [Polish Civil Procedure] devoted a whole issue (2021/4) to the Brussels II ter Regulation. The issue is published in open access. Below are the abstracts of (and the links to) the various contributions. D. Martiny, New efforts in judicial cooperation in European child abduction cases Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 […]
On 25 November 2021, the Court of Justice handed out its judgement in IB (C-289/20), in which it followed the earlier Opinion of AG Sánchez-Bordona. The preliminary question referred to the Court in this case concerned the jurisdictional rules of Article 3(1)(a) of the Brussels II bis Regulation and was aimed at clarifying whether a spouse […]
The European Commission (EC) set out an initiative Recognition of parenthood between Member States. As underlined by the EC, the initiative aims to ensure that parenthood, as established in one EU country, is recognised across the EU, so that children maintain their rights in cross-border situations, in particular when their families travel or move within the EU. Currently, […]
Koji Takahashi from Doshisha University Law School published on SSRN an article titled Blockchain-based Negotiable Instruments (with Particular Reference to Bills of Lading and Investment Securities). The article will be included as a chapter in the book: A. Bonomi, M. Lehmann (eds), Blockchain & Private International Law to be published by Brill. The abstract reads […]
On 9 September 2021, the Court of Justice handed down its judgment in UM (C‑277/20), in which, for the first time, it sheds light on doubts concerning the applicability of the EU Succession Regulation to donations mortis causa. The preliminary questions originate from the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof). In the judgment, the Court of Justice […]
On 9 September 2021 the Court of Justice pronounced its judgment in the case RK (C-422/20) concerning the mechanism of the transfer of jurisdiction under the Succession Regulation. The judgement also gives an insight into transitional provisions of the regulation. The preliminary questions originate from the Higher Court in Cologne (Oberlandesgericht Köln). The opinion on […]
Paul B. Stephan from University of Virginia School of Law has posted recently on SSRN an article titled Antibribery Law, which will constitute a chapter of the book Challenges to the International Legal Order, edited by David L. Sloss. The book is supposed to be published by Oxford University Press in 2021. The article may […]
The new issue of International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 70, Issue 3) is out. Some of articles concern directly or indirectly questions of private international law. Their abstracts are provided below. The whole issue is available here. Some of articles are available in open access. A. Poon, Determining the Place of Performance under Article 7(1) of […]
The new issue of International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 70, Issue 2) is out. Some of the articles relate to private international law. Their abstracts are provided below. The whole issue is available here. P. Giliker, Codification, Consolidation, Restatement? How Best to Systemise the Modern Law of Tort The law of tort (or extra or non-contractual […]
The conference titled Child-friendly procedures in cases of international child abduction will take place online on 24 and 25 June 2021. The conference will present the results of research conducted with the INCLUDE project on what is considered to be ‘good practice’ for professionals in a context of child abduction as seen by children themselves. You can […]
Sabine Corneloup (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas) and Jinske Verhellen (Ghent University) have recently posted on SSRN an article titled Providing legal identity for all – A means to empower migrants to exercise their rights, which forms part of the volume SDG 2030 and Private International Law edited by R. Michaels, V. Ruiz Abou-Nigm and H. van […]
From 9 to 11 September 2021, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host a conference titled The Private Side of Transforming our World – UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law. Depending on the course of the pandemic, the organizers plan that the conference will […]
On 24 March 2021 the Court of Justice issued a judgement in the case of SS v MCP, C-603/20 PPU, which concerns interpretation of the jurisdictional rules of Brussels II bis Regulation. The request for a preliminary ruling originated from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Family Division. The Court decided that a court […]
On 17 September 2020 the Court of Justice of the EU issued a judgement in the case of WV v Landkreis Harburg (C-540/19) concerning the interpretation of the jurisdictional rules of the EU Maintenance Regulation, in particular its Article 3(b). An opinion in this case was prepared by AG Sánchez-Bardona. Factual Background WV’s mother lived […]
On 24 February 2021 the Court of Justice of the EU issued a judgement in the case BU v Markt24 GmbH (C-804/19) following a request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Salzburg (Austria). The case concerns jurisdictional rules for employment contracts in Brussels I bis Regulation, in particular its Article 21. The opinion in […]
The University of Silesia in Katowice hosted in 2019 a conference on the the Application of the Succession Regulation in the EU Member States. The papers presented at the conference have recently been published, under the editorship of Maciej Szpunar, in Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego, a periodical specifically devoted to private international law.Below are the abstracts […]
The new issue of International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 70, Issue 1) is out. Some of the articles relate to private international law. Their abstracts are provided below. The whole issue is available here. Roy Goode, Creativity and Transnational Commercial Law: From Carchemish to Cap Town This article examines the creative aspects of a […]
The course Party Autonomy in International Family Law given by Cristina González Beilfuss at the Hague Academy of International Law in Summer 2018 has recently been published in volume 408 of the Academy’s Collected Courses (Recueil des cours). As explained in the summary: Party autonomy, i.e. the power of parties to select the applicable law, is increasingly […]
A new development in Poland concerning the legal situation of children born to same-sex couples, including through surrogacy, is worth mentioning. The current state of affairs in this area in Poland was illustrated earlier on this blog, and here on Conflictoflaws. As explained in these posts, Polish authorities and administrative courts tend to object to the […]
In a resolution of 8 November 2019 (III CZP 24/19, available here, in Polish), the Supreme Court of Poland addressed the issue of jurisdiction to rule on the authorisation that a guardian of an adult may need to obtain prior to selling property belonging to the latter. Background DD is a German national, with habitual residence in […]
On few occasions Polish tax authorities made references to the EU Succession Regulation and applied foreign law designated by its provisions, even though revenue and other administrative matters are explicitly excluded from its scope. This post presents shortly the inheritance taxation rules in Poland, explains why tax authorities felt the need to look into foreign […]
The Supreme Administrative Court in Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny – NSA) issued on 10 September 2020 two judgments concerning the legal status in Poland of a child born by a surrogate mother in the US. Transcription – No! A US birth certificate indicated a Polish national as the father and also contained information that […]
The Polish periodical Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego (Review of International, European and Comparative Law – PWPM) launched an international competition for original papers in the field of international law, European law or comparative law, written in English by scholars aged 35 or less. The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2020. The winning papers […]