The European Association of Private International Law
Juan J. Garcia-Blesa (Fern University) has posted Indeterminacy, Ideology and Legitimacy in International Investment Arbitration: Controlling International Private Networks of Legal Governance? on SSRN.Continue Reading
On 31 March 2021, the Paris main first instance court (tribunal judiciaire, formerly tribunal de grande instance) ruled on theContinue Reading
Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, University of Urbino) has posted Protecting Digital Platform Users by Means of Private International LawContinue Reading
Kurt Siehr (formerly MPI Hamburg) has posted Mandatory Rules of Third States: from Ole Lando to Contemporary European Private International Law onContinue Reading
In two judgments delivered on 10 December 2020, the French Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation)Continue Reading
Melissa Durkee (University of Georgia School of Law) has posted Interpretive Entrepreneurs on SSRN. The abstract reads: Private actors interpret legalContinue Reading
In a judgment of 27 January 2021, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) indicatedContinue Reading
Since 2018, UNIDROIT has been studying the prospect of working on the enforcement of claims. In September 2020, it eventuallyContinue Reading
In a judgement dated 18 November 2020, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruledContinue Reading
The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Supreme Site Services v. Shape (Case C‑186/19)Continue Reading
In 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled twice on whether sovereign immunities are relevant toContinue Reading
Horatia Muir Watt, Lucia Biziková, Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Diego P. Fernández Arroyo and Megan Ma (Sciences Po Law School)Continue Reading
Mateusz Grochowski (European University Institute) and Katarzyna Południak-Gierz (Jagiellonian University) have posted EU Private International Law in Internet-Related Disputes: The Polish Case LawContinue Reading
In July 2020, Luxembourg eventually adopted a statute on Civil Liability for Harm related to a Nuclear Accident. The statuteContinue Reading
In February 2019, Michael G. Faure (Maastricht University and Erasmus Law School Rotterdam) and Kévine Kindji (Maastricht University) presented toContinue Reading
Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg) has published the second edition of his treatise on European Civil Procedural Law (EuropäischesContinue Reading
As president of EAPIL and an editor of the blog, and on behalf of all the officers of the associationContinue Reading
Elie Lenglart, a lecturer at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, gave an online conference on La théorie générale des conflitsContinue Reading
Marta Pertegás (Maastricht University) has posted The 2019 Judgments Convention: the Road Ahead on SSRN. The abstract reads: In TheContinue Reading
David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto Law and Philosophy) has posted Not an Isolated, Exceptional, and Indeed Contradictory Branch of JurisprudenceContinue Reading
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 includes only one article on a topic of privateContinue Reading
Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) is the editor of a new book offering commentaries of the most important ofContinue Reading
Dimitry Kochenov (University of Groningen) and Uladzislau Belavusau (T.M.C. Asser Institute) have posted on After the Celebration: Marriage Equality inContinue Reading
On 29 April 2020, the (national) Court of Appeal of Luxembourg ruled that the conditions of res judicata are determinedContinue Reading
Giancarlo Frosio (University of Strasbourg) has posted Enforcement of European Rights on a Global Scale on SSRN. The abstract reads:Continue Reading
John Coyle (University of North Carolina) has posted Cruise Contracts, Public Policy, and Foreign Forum Selection Clauses on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
The Russian Legal Information Agency has announced that Russia’s Justice Ministry, acting jointly with the Foreign Ministry and the SupremeContinue Reading
Matthias Weller (University of Bonn) has posted The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention: New Trends in Trust Management on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
Joseph William Singer (Harvard Law School) has published a new casebook on the American Conflict of Laws (Choice of LawContinue Reading
In a judgment of 3 June 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that sanctions issued by the Security CouncilContinue Reading
Stephen Park (University of Connecticut School of Business) and Tim Samples (University of Georgia School of Business) have posted Distrust,Continue Reading
The third issue of the Journal du Droit International for 2020 includes three articles concerned with private international law andContinue Reading
The members of the proposed EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law will host a webinar 20 October 2020, fromContinue Reading
The Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) has selected a team to prepare a draft UniformContinue Reading
The Hague Lectures of Lauro Gama (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) on the Unidroit Principles and the LawContinue Reading
The Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb will hold a conference on Applicable Law in Cross-Border Insolvency ProceedingsContinue Reading
In the context of the 2020 Annual Conference of the European Law Institute, the feasibility study on EU Conflict ofContinue Reading
The French Committee of Private International Law has published a book presenting portraits of 15 former presidents of the CommitteeContinue Reading
A Chinese divorce judgment delivered on 20 December 2013 by a court from Beijing was recognised by a French court in SouthContinue Reading
Trevor Hartley (London School of Economics) has published the 3rd edition of his textbook on International Commercial Litigation. The book combinesContinue Reading
Mark C. Weidemaier (University of North Carolina School Law) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke Law School) have posted Unlawfully-Issued SovereignContinue Reading
Franco Ferrari (New York University Law School) has posted A New Paradigm for International Uniform Substantive Law Conventions on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered its ruling in the Novo Banco case (C‑253/19) on 16Continue Reading
The French Committee for private international law will hold a conference on the codification of private international law in theContinue Reading
Jorg Sladič is an associate professor of international and European law at the European faculty of law in Ljubljana (Slovenia).Continue Reading
Carlos Manuel Vazquez (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Extraterritoriality as Choice of Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: The properContinue Reading
I have reported earlier on the Commisimpex case and the various decisions of the French Supreme Court on civil andContinue Reading
Kamalia Mehtiyeva (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne School of Law) has just published a monograph on the Concept of Judicial Cooperation basedContinue Reading
The Court has delivered its ruling in Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG (Case C-343/19) yesterday. The court rules thatContinue Reading
In the last decade, the French law of diplomatic immunity has changed numerous times. This is not great for legalContinue Reading
Iacyr de Aguilar Vieira and Gustavo Cerqueira have edited a volume on the CISG in the Americas (La Convention deContinue Reading
William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) and Wenliang Zhang (Renmin University of China) have posted Reciprocity in China-U.S. JudgmentsContinue Reading
Aaron D. Simowitz (Willamette University College of Law) has posted Convergence and the Circulation of Money Judgments on SSRN. The abstractContinue Reading
On 12 May 2020, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales delivered an interesting decision in SAS Institute Inc.Continue Reading
Bertrand Copigneaux, Nikita Vlasov and Emarildo Bani of IDATE DigiWorld, Nikolay Tcholtchev and Philipp Lämmel of Fraunhofer Institute for OpenContinue Reading
Christopher Marsden (University of Sussex) has posted Transnational Internet Law on SSRN. The greatest, and certainly to a Westphalian nation-state-centeredContinue Reading
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 is out. It contains one article concerned with privateContinue Reading
Maud Minois (University Paris Descartes) has published earlier this year a monograph presenting her Research on Characterization in the PrivateContinue Reading
The most recent issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé is out. It contains three articles and numerousContinue Reading
Catherine Kessedjian (Emeritus Paris II University) and Valérie Pironon (University of Nantes) have published the second edition of Catherine Kessedjian’sContinue Reading
My colleague Hélène Peroz has reported on this interesting judgment delivered on 4 March 4 2020 by the French SupremeContinue Reading
Jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments are separate issues in private international law. When arising outside of the context ofContinue Reading
Giesela Rühl (University of Jena) has posted Smart (Legal) Contracts, or: Which (Contract) Law for Smart Contracts? on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
The latest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quaterly was just released. It includes an article written by MatteoContinue Reading
William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) has published The New Presumption against Extraterritoriality in the Harvard Law Review. CanonsContinue Reading
On 1 April 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Aspen Underwriting Ltd v Credit Europe Bank on the concept ofContinue Reading
On 1 April 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX on the fascinating issue ofContinue Reading
The general course that Catherine Kessedjian (University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas) gave at the Hague Academy of InternationalContinue Reading
On 3 March 2020, the international chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed that French courts may issue anContinue Reading
Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law) has posted Provisional Measures in Family Law and the Brussels II Ter Regulation onContinue Reading
In May 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation amending the 2001 Evidence Regulation. The name ofContinue Reading
Olivier Cachard and Paul Klötgen (both University of Nancy) have published a new edition of their manual of private internationalContinue Reading
In a judgment delivered on 4 March 2020, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation)Continue Reading
Johnny Hallyday, born Jean-Philippe Smet, died in 2017 age 74. Over a career of 57 years, he released more thanContinue Reading
Dário Moura Vicente (University of Lisbon) has published the second edition of his monograph on international intellectual property (A TutelaContinue Reading
The last issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2019 has just been released. It contains numerousContinue Reading
The proceedings of the symposium held in June 2019 on the Paris international commercial chambers were published in a specialContinue Reading
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 has just been released. It contains two articles andContinue Reading
The 12th edition of the leading French treatise on private international law of Prof. Pierre Mayer (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) is out.Continue Reading
Luis de Lima Pinheiro (university of Lisbon) has posted Public Policy and Private International Law – Portugal on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
On 29 January 2020, the District Court of The Hague dismissed the claim of a Palestinian-Dutch Citizen against the ChiefContinue Reading
Lydia Lundstedt and Erik Sinander (both Stockholm University) have published Enhancing Critical Thinking in Private International Law in The LawContinue Reading
On 18 December 2019, the French Supreme Court on private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled on the scopeContinue Reading
The main focus of the third issue of the French Revue Critique de Droit International Privé for 2019 is onContinue Reading
On 4 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union held in UB v. VA, Tiger SCI andContinue Reading
The French university Paris II (Panthéon Assas) established the Assas International Law Review (Revue de droit international d’Assas) in 2018.Continue Reading
The European Group of Private International Law (EGPIL-GEDIP) has published the minutes (in French) of its 2019 Meeting in Katowice.Continue Reading
Mathias Audit, Sylvain Bollée (both Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University), Pierre Callé (Paris Sud University) have published the third editionContinue Reading
The last issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law features an article comparing US and European conflict of lawsContinue Reading
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international was just released. It contains two articles relating to private internationalContinue Reading
The third issue of the Journal of Private International Law for 2019 features the following articles: Rachael Mulheron (Queen MaryContinue Reading
The general course that Patrick Kinsch (University of Luxembourg) gave at the Hague Academy of International Law on The RoleContinue Reading
Marie-Elodie Ancel (Paris Est Créteil University), Pascale Deumier (Lyon 3 University) and Malik Laazouzi (Paris II University) have published theContinue Reading
On 21 November 2019, the Cour of Justice of the European Union ruled on the law governing an action forContinue Reading
Francesco Deana (University of Udine) has posted Cross-Border Continuity of Family Status and Public Policy Concerns in the European UnionContinue Reading
On 3 October 2018, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that the resContinue Reading
Nadine Watté and Rafaël Jafferali (both Free University of Brussels) have published a book presenting the General Rules of BelgianContinue Reading
Moritz Brinkmann (University of Bonn) is the editor of a new article by article commentary of the European Insolvency Regulation.Continue Reading
On 29 July 2019, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled in Akçil and others (Appellants) v Koza LtdContinue Reading
The third issue of the Journal du droit international was released. It contains two articles relating to private internationalContinue Reading
The course taught by Louis d’Avout (Paris II University) at the Hague Academy of International law on the Firm andContinue Reading