On 25 March 2026, in two judgments (24-21.790 and 24-21.422), the French Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) established a mandatory rule of international jurisdiction in favour of French courts in international consumer disputes falling outside the scope of Brussels I bis Regulation. More precisely, the Court ruled that a clause […]
The latest issue of the French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely read here. This new issue features a special dossier on the exploitation of natural resources in the context of the energy transition. Edited by Rebecca Legendre […]
On 15 December 2025, a French Report on the Applicable Law to Generative AI Models Available in the European Union has been published under the auspices of the advisory body to the French Minister of Culture on intellectual property (CSLPA). Tristan Azzi (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne Law School) and Yves El Hage (University […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2026 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In her contribution, Estelle Fohrer-Dedeurwaerder (University of Toulouse Capitole) discusses the international element of legal situations (La manipulation de l’internationalité des situations juridiques). The English abstract reads: […]
On 9 February 2026, the French Cour de Cassation will hold a one-day symposium titled Revisiting the international element in contracts (Revisiter l’internationalité du contrat). The event is organised by the Société de Législation Comparée, the Cour de Cassation and the academic research unit GREDEG (Côte d’Azur University), and is coordinated by Gustavo Cerqueira (Côte d’Azur […]
On 20 November 2025, the European Commission (EC) released a communication titled DigitalJustice@2030. It features the EU Digital Justice Strategy for 2025-2030 announced in May 2025 in a call for evidence (reported here). Building on the EU Council’s e-Justice Strategy 2024-2028 (presented here), the new EC Strategy maps the main actions to be conducted the next five […]
The Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission has recently published a fourth edition of the Compendium of European Union legislation on judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters. This document is extremely valuable and its updated publication is to be welcomed. In a common judicial area, marked by a tradition of written […]
The latest issue of the French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely read here. The main focus of the issue is the International Commercial Chamber at the Paris Court of Appeal (CCIP-CA). Nine contributions are provided, coordinated by […]
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues, including the 2024 case-law review dedicated to EU private international law prepared by Louis d’Avout, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Stefan Huber, Patrick Kinsch, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin. […]
A conference on ‘the concentration of cross-border litigation’ (La concentration des contentieux transfrontières) will take place on 13 and 14 November 2025 at the University Toulouse Capitole. Background The event is jointly organised by the DANTE Research Centre (Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris-Saclay) and the Institut de Recherche en Droit Européen, International et Comparé (IRDEIC) of the University Toulouse Capitole, […]
On 19 and 20 November 2025, the 35th Conference on Private International Law, entitled The Role of Judicial Actors in Shaping Private International Law: A Comparative Perspective” will take place at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne. This year’s edition will focus on the vital role of judicial actors — including judges, lawyers, […]
The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 has been published. It features the proceedings of the international conference held in honour of the distinguished Austrian-American conflicts scholar Albert A. Ehrenzweig, which took place in Vienna in June 2024 under the scientific coordination of Matthias Lehmann and Florian Heindler. In addition, this […]
The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It is also worth mentioning a contribution on (public) international law that echoes a special issue of the Journal, published earlier this year to mark its 150th anniversary. In […]
The French Cour de Cassation will host a conference on the recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation on Monday, 23 June 2025, from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm. The conference is organised by Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), following the 2023-2024 seminar series on the recast of […]
On 26 May 2025, the European Commission launched a call for evidence to support the preparation of the EU Digital Justice Strategy for 2025-2030 – DigitalJustice@2030. Anyone can contribute by logging in to an EU login account. The call is open for feedback until 23 June 2025. General Context As explained on the dedicated webpage, […]
The European Parliamentary Research Service has recently released a Briefing, by Nikolina Šajn, on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on cooperation among enforcement authorities responsible for the enforcement of Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain. Background The proposal aims at improving farmers’ […]
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It is also worth mentioning the 2024-2025 edition of the column dedicated to judicial cooperation in civil, criminal and arbitral matters authored by Kamalia Mehtiyeva (University Paris-Est […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international (JDI, Clunet) for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In her contribution, Sandrine Clavel (University of Paris-Saclay) analyses the recently adopted Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (“CS3D”) through the lens of European economic […]
The Société de législation comparée has published a compendium of legal studies on foreign law (Le Droit Étranger). The scholarly works in this 3-volume collection examine the role of foreign law in shaping legal thought and practice, offering insights into its academic contributions, practical applications, and future perspectives. Background Over the last ten years, the […]
The European Judicial Network (EJN) in civil and commercial matters, set up in 2001 on the model of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters, aims at strengthening cross-border cooperation between national courts of EU Member States, including legal practitioners. Therefore, it supports the effective implementation of private international law instruments in the EU jurisdiction. […]
A Convention on the issue of certificates of matrimonial capacity and capacity to enter into a registered partnership was adopted on 13 September 2024 under the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS). This is in fact the 35th instrument elaborated in the framework of ICCS. As explained by its Explanatory Report, the Convention builds on […]
On 18 November 2024, the French Cour de Cassation will hold a one-day conference on the latest developpements in private international law. The objective is to present recent case law in various areas of PIL and to consider the future prospects for this field. One of the great interest of this scientific event is that […]
On 21 November 2024, Gérard Anou (University of Grenoble Alpes) organises a one-day conference devoted to the rise of the digital economy in the context of international trade law. It will deal with both the regulatory dimension and dispute resolution. The presentation of the event reads as follows: The development of information and communication technologies […]
Regulation 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, commonly known as the EU AI Act, has entered into force on 1 August 2024 and will progressively be applicable to several (private and public) organisations within transnational AI value chains connected to the EU internal market. This Regulation is remarkable for two main reasons. First, […]
The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It also pays tribute to Ibrahim Fadlallah (1942-2024) who was a leading Lebanese-French academic and arbitrator. In the first article, Daniel Mainguy (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) uncovers […]
On 26 and 27 September 2024, an international conference in honour of professor Paul Lagarde, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, will take place in Paris, at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Centre Sorbonne, Liard Auditorium). It will deal with the international sources of private international law, drawing on the major role that […]
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 establishing the European Digital Identity Framework entered into force on 20 May 2024. As reported on this blog (at the time of the Commission’s proposal), the major contribution of this Regulation is the creation of a “European Digital Identity Wallet” (EUDIW). It aims to allow citizens and companies based in the European […]
The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé of 2024 has been released. It contains two articles, several briefing notes as well as numerous case notes on private international law. In the first article, Nicolas Nord (University of Strasbourg & ICCS) examines the role of French civil registrars in the international context, […]
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It is also worth mentionning the new edition of the column dedicated to judicial cooperation in civil, criminal and arbitral matters authored by Kamalia Mehtiyeva (University Paris-Est […]
On 21 March 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in case C-90/22, Gjensidige. The case is concerned with two main issues. The first one is the interplay between the CMR and the Brussels I bis Regulation regarding their respective provision on choice of court agreement. Based on Article 31, read in conjunction with Article 41, […]
As announced in a previous post, a seminar series on the recast of Brussels I bis Regulation, is taking place during the 2023-2024 academic year, both in Paris at the Cour de cassation and online (in French), under the scientific coordination of Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). The fourth seminar will […]
The fourth issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2023 will be released shortly. It contains two articles, several briefing notes as well as numerous case notes on private international law. In the first article, El Hadji Samba Ndiaye (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar) examines the growing situations of conflicts of nationality […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, Héloïse Meur (Paris VIII University) analyses new French provisions on PIL aspects of unfair commercial practices (Entre la lettre et l’esprit de la […]
As announced in a previous post, a seminar series on the recast of Brussels I bis Regulation, is taking place during the 2023-2024 academic year, both in Paris at the Cour de cassation and online (in French), under the scientific coordination of Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). The third seminar […]
Regulation (EU) 2023/2844 on the digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters, and amending certain acts in the field of judicial cooperation, also knowns as the “Digital Justice” Regulation, was adopted on 13 December 2023 (see already here on the Regulation proposal, here on the text negotiations […]
As announced in a previous post, a seminar series on the recast of Brussels I bis Regulation, is taking place during the 2023-2024 academic year, both in Paris at the Cour de cassation and online (in French), under the scientific coordination of Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 […]
A symposium titled “Personal Status on the Move” (La circulation du statut personnel), organised by the Société de Législation Comparée (SLC), the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS), the Law Faculty of University of Côte d’Azur and the Associazione Civilisti Italiani, will take place on 19 January 2024 in Rome at the Corte Suprema di […]
The third issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé of 2023 will be released shortly. It focuses on notarial practice in international family property law in the Ukrainian context, but contains also numerous case notes on private international law. In the first article, Pierre Boisseau (University of Tours) examines the contours of the […]
A seminar series on the recast of Brussels I bis Regulation, organized by the Research Centre for Private International Law and International Trade (CRDI, University of Paris Panthéon Assas) and the Sorbonne Department Study of International Private Relationships (SERPI, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), together with the Société de Législation Comparée (SLC), the French national […]
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2023 has been released. It contains three articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues, including the 2022 annual case-law review of EU private international law coordinated by Louis d’Avout (University of Paris II) and Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner (University of Rennes). In the […]
On 16 November 2023 the Lyon 3 University will host a colloquium on the French Draft Code of Private international Law, organised by Ludovic Pailler. The presentation of the colloquium reads as follows: Following a mission statement, the working group charged with considering the codification of private international law, chaired by Mr. Ancel, submitted its […]
On 19 and 20 October 2023, the Academic Research Federation “Europe in Change” (University of Strasbourg) is organising a Symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past” (Réparer les “crimes du passé) under the scientific coordination of Bénédicte Girard, Etienne Muller and Delphine Porcheron. The event will be held in French. A number of presentations […]
The eleventh edition of the treatise on Droit international privé in the Précis Dalloz series, one of the leading texts on private international law in France, has recently been published (January 2023, 1100 pages). The previous edition was published ten years ago. The new, fully revised edition has been prepared by Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (Sorbonne Law school, Paris I […]
The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research, UCILeR, Portugal, is an investigation center devoted to the analysis of the legal implications and possible solutions for societal challenges. Knowing that the family and personal status have been going through profound changes in internal legislations and in the scope of international mobility, the organizing committee of […]
The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2023 was released. It contains three articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, Sylvette Guillemard (Laval University) analyses the recent French Draft PIL Code based on the Quebec experience in this area (Regard québécois sur le projet de […]
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2023 was released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon) analyses the recent recast of the EU regulation in matrimonial matters, the matters of parental responsibility and on international child abduction […]
On 9 March 2022, the CJEU ruled on the concept of “consumer” under Article 17(1)(c) of Brussels I bis Regulation (Wurth Automotive, Case C-177/22). According to the CJEU, national court may take into account the “impression” created by a person’s conduct towards the other contracting party in order to deny the former consumer status. Behaving like […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2023 was released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In her article, Valérie Pironon (University of Nantes) discusses the issue of international competence in private litigation in the field of anti-competitive practices (L’adaptation des règles de compétence […]
A new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (4/2022) is out. It contains one essay, one briefing note on the accession of the EU to the Hague Judgments Convention (by Y. El Hage, Lyon 3 University), as well as numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School), Dominique Bureau (University […]
The French Committee of Private International Law has launched the 8th edition of the Committee’s Doctoral Dissertation Award. Eligible PhD dissertations are those written in French and defended between 15 January 2022 and 7 January 2023. The application procedure is explained here. The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2023.
The proceedings of the Conference on the Notary’s Role in Private International Law (L’office du notaire en droit international privé) which took place on 25-26 November 2021 in Toulouse University, have been published by Dalloz. The book, edited by Estelle Gallant, contains eighteen contributions (in French) from experts of private international law, scholars or practitioners, […]
On 24 November 2022, the Court of Justice delivered an interesting judgment on the validity of a digital jurisdictional clause, i.e. the general terms and conditions containing the clause was accessible from a hypertext link mentioned in the written contract (C-358/21, Tilman, already commented here by Krzysztof Pacula and here by Geert Van Calster). In […]
A recent Briefing paper titled Updating the European digital identity framework, authored by Mar Negreiro and Maria Niestadt (from the European Parliamentary Research Services), may be of interest to the readers of this blog. It deals with the proposal of the European Commission, released in June 2021, to create a “European Digital Identity” (EDI) and […]
A quick update related to the public consultation launched by the French Ministry of Justice last June on the draft code of private international law to gather feedback from all stakeholders (announced here). The deadline has been extended to 30 November 2022. More information is available here. Various posts have been published on this blog regarding the draft: see […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (3/2022) is out. It contains three articles relating to the French project of PIL codification (of which readers of the blog are well informed, see here and here), as well as numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School), Dominique Bureau (University of […]
The French Ministry of Justice has launched a series of podcasts titled Droit vers l’Europe, presenting key-aspects of EU Judicial Cooperation in civil and commercial matters (in French) for judges and legal practioners. The objective is to improve their understanding of EU instruments of private international law and thus facilitate their application in cross-border cases. […]
The yearly seminar on European and Comparative law organized by the Centre of European Legal Studies (CELS) in Urbino (Italy) will take place this summer from 22 August to 3 September 2022. The Seminar aims to develop knowledge of European and International law as well as to facilitate exchanges between lawyers, officials of the European […]
Following the release of a draft code of private international law (announced here), the French Ministry of Justice has launched on 8 June 2022 a public consultation to gather feedback from all stakeholders, including academics, “in order to determine the possible next steps”. The blog has started to contribute to the discussion (see here on […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2/2022) is out. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on Dalloz website (La guerre et le statut des personnes: que peut le droit […]
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2022 has just been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues, including a chronique on international judicial cooperation (authored by Kamalia Mehtiyeva, University of Paris-Est Créteil). In the first article, Sara Godechot-Patris (University of Paris-Est Créteil) discusses […]
On 19 April 2022, the European Commission has launched a new page on the e-Justice Portal concerning children from Ukraine (available here in all EU languages). It is an operational extension, in a dramatic context, of the work undertaken by the Commission to strengthen the protection of migrant children. Background According to the European Commission: […]
On 23 February 2022, the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence was released. In recent years, many experts have expressed their views on the Union’s ambition to regulate corporate due diligence comprehensively and in a binding manner at the EU level. The private international […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (1/2022) is out. In an opening article, Paul Lagarde pays tribute to the memory of Pierre Gothot (1936-2021). The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English […]
This post was contributed by Guillaume Payan, who is Law Professor at the University of Toulon. Under the direction of its president, Marc Schmitz, the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ) has edited a code, published by Bruylant, on digital enforcement (Global Code of Digital Enforcement). This Global Code was officially presented at the 24th […]
The Charles De Visscher Center for International and European Law (CeDIE, UCLouvain, Belgium) will host a conference on Surrogacy and Private International Law, on 31 March 2022. The conference aims at discussing the theoretical and practical debates on surrogacy, by presenting both the rules of domestic law (including a comparative law approach) and the rules of private […]
The French Committee of Private International Law is looking for a part-time assistant (35 hours per year). His/her main tasks will be to transcribe the debates of the Committee meetings, organise meetings and update the website of the Committee. The main requirements are: Master’s degree in private international law or PhD student in private international […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2022 has just been released. It contains three articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, Gian Paolo Romano (University of Geneva) revisits the interplay between “private” international law and “public” international law (Droit international dit « privé » et […]
Jean-Sylvestre Bergé who is a law professor at Université Côte d’Azur (CNRS GREDEG) and a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France has recently published a new open access essay titled Rethinking Flow Beyond Control – An Outreach Legal Essay (ed. DICE, coll. Confluence des droits collection, 2021, 154 p., already announced here). This […]
Marc Schmitz, President of the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ) and Patrick Gielen, Chairman of the joint appointment commissions of the Bailiffs, have edited a book, published by Bruylant, on service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in Europe (La signification des actes judiciaires et extrajudiciaires en Europe). It aims at preparing legal professionals to […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (4/2021) is out. It contains four articles and numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on Dalloz website (Autour de l’enfant. Interpréter […]
David Walker, Rapporteur of the 24th International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ) Congress, has edited the proceedings of the event. The book, published by Bruylant, is titled Cyberjustice, new Opportunities for the Judicial Officer and includes various contributions (in English and French) dealing with Cyberjustice in line with the expectations of judicial officers. Many articles […]
On 17 November 2021, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) issued an interesting decision in the field of family law (Cass. Civ. 1re, 17 November 2021, n°20-19.420). The Court held that a bigamous marriage is not automatically void under French law when the spouses are foreign nationals. Indeed, the […]
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2021 has just been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues, including the 2020 annual case-law review of EU private international law supervised by Louis d’Avout (University of Paris II). In the first article, the International Law Association (ILA) […]
The University of Toulouse (France) will host a conference on Notary’s Role in Private International Law (L’office du notaire en droit international privé) organised by Estelle Gallant, on 25-26 November 2021. The conference will include sessions on the role of notary as competent authority in the field of private international law, the reception and circulation […]
The Research Center on Private International Law (EDIEC – EA 4185) of the University of Lyon III – Jean Moulin (France) will host a three-day conference to understand whether EU Private International Law should be considered as a comprehensive system (Existe-t-il un système de droit international privé de l’Union européenne?), organised by Ludovic Pailler and Cyril […]
On 15 October 2021, the two Rapporteurs of the European Parliament, Emil Radev and Nuno Melo (following a Joint committee procedure, i.e. Committee on Legal Affairs and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) released a Report on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a computerised […]
A new version of the Insolvency Registers Interconnection search interface is now available on the e-Justice Portal. Background The EU-wide interconnection of national insolvency registers (IRI 2.0) has been developed in accordance with article 25 of the Regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings across EU borders. EU Member States are required to publish relevant information on […]
Ghent University (Belgium) and its Center for the Future of Dispute Resolution organise an online conference titled Transnational Dispute Resolution in an Increasingly Digitalized World, to be held on 24 March 2022. A call for abstracts is open through 1 December 2021. The concept is as follows: The increased digitalization in the field dispute resolution, which received […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (3/2021) is out. It contains 2 articles and numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on the Dalloz website (Éclectisme et gai […]
The proceedings of the conferences held under the aegis of the French Committee of Private International Law for the period 2018-2020 have recently been published by Pedone. The volume contains eleven contributions (in French) from experts of private international law, scholars or practitioners, complemented by the exchange of views which took place in the course […]
On 23 and 24 September 2021, the GLaw Research Network (Maastricht University) will host an “hybrid” workshop on Article 47 of the EU Charter and effective judicial protection: The National Courts’ perspective. This will be the second part of a broader research on effective judicial protection in the EU legal order. The first part focused on the Court […]
The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2021 has just been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, Guillaume Feld (Avocat, Paris bar) and Guillaume Sauvaget (Associé, PS Consulting) discusse the concept of “dispute boards” as ADR technique in an […]
The French Committee for Private International Law will hold a panel discussion on private international law and Brexit (Le droit international privé au défi du Brexit) in the afternoon of 8 October 2021, in Paris (3 pm CET). The chairman will be Dominique Foussard. Speakers include Louis d’Avout, Stewart Leech, Eva Lein, Philippe Lortie and Michael […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2/2021) is out. It contains eight articles and numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on the Dalloz website (Devoir de réserve ?), as well […]
On 14 June 2021, the Research Service of the European Parliament released a briefing paper related to the proposal for a regulation on a computerised system for communication in cross-border civil and criminal proceedings (e-CODEX system), authored by Rafał Mańko (EP Research Service). The abstract reads: The e-CODEX system is the digital backbone of EU […]
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2021 has just been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It also includes an hommage to its former director, Emmanuel Gaillard. In the first article, Mathieu Guerriaud and Clotilde Jourdain-Fortier (University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, CREDIMI) discuss, […]
Ludovic Pailler (University of Lyon 3) has just published a monograph on respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the European judicial area in civil and commercial matters, based on his doctoral thesis: Le respect de la charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne dans l’espace judiciaire européen en matière civile et […]
On 17 May 2021 (from 5 to 7 pm CET), the French Supreme Court in civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) will host an online seminar (in French) on the respective roles of the court and the parties in the application of conflict-of-laws rules (L’office du juge et la règle de conflit de lois). […]
A joint publication of the Secretariats of UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT and the HCCH, titled Legal Guide to Uniform Instruments in the Area of International Commercial Contracts, with a Focus on Sales, has just been released. As explained on the HCCH website, the Legal Guide “offers an overview of the principal legislative texts prepared by each organisation, […]
On 26 April 2021, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution on the Council position at first reading in a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Justice Programme 2021-2027, repealing Regulation 1382/2013. After the parliamentary debate on 27 April, the final act was signed […]
The new issue of the AJ Contrat (12/2020) offers a series of articles (in French) compiled by Gustavo Cerqueira (University of Nîmes, France), concerning the CISG on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. The dossier contains the following articles: The challenge of uniform interpretation, by Claude Witz (Saarland University) The CISG’s articulation with the European Union Law, by Cyril Nourissat (University […]
José R. Mata Dona (Independent Practitioner and Member of the Brussels and Caracas Bars) and Nikos Lavranos (Guest Professor at the Free University of Brussels and Secretary-General of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration) are the editors of International Arbitration and EU Law, which has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing in the […]
As announced in this blog (here), Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (University of Côte d’Azur and French University Institute) has just published a monograph titled “Situations in Movement and The Law – A Pragmatic Epistemology” (Les situations en mouvement et le droit – Essai d’une épistémologie pragmatique, Dalloz, 2021). The author has provided the following abstract in English: The ambition […]
On 15 and 16 April 2021, the GLaw Research Network (Maastricht University) will host an online workshop on Article 47 of the EU Charter and effective judicial protection: The Court of Justice’s perspective. Senior and junior academics specialising in EU law will discuss various aspects of the impact of Article 47 Charter on the EU constitutional order. On the first […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (1/2021) is out. It contains four articles and numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on the Dalloz website (Dans le désordre planétaire…). In the […]
In September 2020, the First President of the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de Cassation), Ms Chantal Arens, presented the main aspects of the Court’s international strategy for 2020-2022. The report of this presentation (available here, in French) may be of interest to practitioners and academics dealing with private international law (PIL) […]
On 26 and 29 March 2021, the European Commission will host a webinar on the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the field of justice. This will be the first in a series of events, which are a follow-up to the Communication of the Commission itself on the Digitalisation of Justice in the European Union of 2 […]
On 11 November 2020, the Court of justice issued a judgment on jurisdiction under Brussels I bis Regulation in respect of a dispute on the use of immovable property subject to co-ownership (Case C-433/19, Ellmes Property Services, already reported here and here). Both article 24, point 1, on rights in rem matters and article 7, […]
Charlemagne Dagbedji (University of Corsica) organises a webinar (in French) titled “Effective Recognition of Non-Judicial Divorce” (L’efficacité internationale du divorce sans juge). The webinar aims at assessing the international legal acquis on non-judicial divorce, with a special focus on the means to ensure its cross-border recognition. It requires to analyse private international law rules but […]
French Private International Law (“PIL”) has never been codified despite various proposals of codification in the last century (see for instance here and here). The growing European acquis of PIL and the idea of an European Code of PIL (see for instance here and more recently within the EAPIL here), as well as the numerous codifications in the field […]
Tamás Szabados (Eötvös Loránd University) published Constitutional identity and judicial cooperation in civil matters in the European Union – An ace up the sleeve?, in the Common Market Law Review (vol. 58, February 2021). The paper discusses the constitutional identity-based arguments in the field of private international law. He has kindly provided us with an extended abstract : […]
The author of this post is Cecilia Rizcallah. She is visiting Professor at the Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles and at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and re:constitution fellow. As announced in a previous post, Cecilia is the author of a monograph on the principle of mutual trust […]
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2021 has just been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law. Both articles deal with the topical issue of corporate social responsibility. In the first article, Bernard Teyssié (University of Paris II – Panthéon-Assas) discusses the legal scope of […]
Cecilia Rizcallah (ULB & University of Saint-Louis, Belgium) has just published a monograph on the principle of mutual trust in EU Law, based on her doctoral thesis: Le principe de confiance mutuelle en droit de l’Union européenne – Un principe essentiel à l’épreuve d’une crise de valeur, Bruylant, 2020. The author has provided the following […]
The General Report on the second project led by the EAPIL Young EU Private International Law Research Network on Overriding Mandatory Rules in the Law of the EU Member States, under the supervision of Tamás Szabados (University of Budapest), has just been published in the ELTE Law Journal, along with the written versions of some of the contributions of […]
On 30 September 2020, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) issued a remarkable decision in the field of French international arbitration (Cass. Civ. 1st Chamber, 30 September 2020, no. 18-19.241). The Court held that the power of the arbitral tribunal to determine its own jurisdiction based on Articles 1448 […]
2021 will be a milestone for the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS). Driven by a powerful internationalisation movement, the new internal regulation of ICCS entered into force on 1 January 2021. I have interviewed Nicolas Nord, the Secretary General of ICCS, on the Commission’s work, functioning and challenges. — Can you remind us what the ICCS […]
Noëmie Reichling (PhD, Avocat à la Cour, France) has just published a monograph on Fundamental Principles of Civil Litigation in the European Judicial Area, based on her doctoral thesis: Les principes directeur du procès civil dans l’espace judiciaire européen. Etude à partir du procès civil transfrontalier, PUAM, 2020. The author has provided the following abstract in […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (4/2020) is out. It contains four articles and numerous case notes. The editorial by Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po), Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II) and Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II) will soon be available in English on the Dalloz website (Éclectique, résolument…). In […]
Vanessa Barbé (University of Valenciennes) and Christina Koumpli (University of Avignon) are inviting abstracts on The Impact of Brexit on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms for a Virtual Symposium on 27 and 28 May 2021, followed by a publication funded by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (CRISS, University of Valenciennes). Some […]
The University of Lyon (EDIEC-CREDIP) hosted a webinar (in French) under the title Situations in Motion : Debate on the Method, now available for online viewing. Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (University of Côte d’Azur and French University Institute, IUF) presented his research project on Situations in motion and the Law, soon to be published in Q1 2021 (Dalloz). […]
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (University College London & European Corporate Governance Institute – ECGI), Federico M. Mucciarelli (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia – UNIMORE), Edmund Schuster (London School of Economics) and Mathias Siems (European University Institute – EUI, Durham University and European Corporate Governance Institute – ECGI) have posted Making the Case for a Rome […]
Ronald A. Brand (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) has published a paper titled Comparative Method and International Litigation on the Journal of Dispute Resolution 273 (2020). The abstract reads: In this article, resulting from a presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, I apply comparative method to international litigation. […]
A free webinar on Access to Justice in cross-border Litigation: Lugano v. the Hague will take place on 27 October 2020, at 12.00 CET, organised by the UK Law Societies Joint Brussels Office. The webinar aims at exploring the implications of the UK leaving the EU system of enforcement and recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters on […]
On 2 September 2020, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) issued an interesting decision on both service of judicial documents and international jurisdiction (Cass., First Civil Chamber, 2 September 2020, no. 19-15.337, unreported). Although elementary at first view, the case provides a good opportunity to discuss the global understanding […]
Hélène Péroz (University of Nantes) has edited a commentary of Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 of 6 July 2016 on promoting the free movement of citizens by simplifying the requirements for presenting certain public documents in the European Union, published by Bruylant (La circulation européenne des actes publics – Premier commentaire du Règlement 2016/1191 du 6 juillet 2016). More […]
Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) edited a Compendium of the Hague Conventions and Protocols enriched by case law from Belgian, French, Luxembourg and Swiss jurisdictions, as well as European jurisdictions (CJUE and ECtHR), published by Bruylant (Conventions et Protocoles de La Haye annotés : Recueil annoté avec les jurisprudences des juridictions belges, françaises, luxembourgeoises et suisses […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (3/2020) is out. It contains three articles and numerous case notes. In the first article, Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po) addresses the challenges raised by the new Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or […]
The new issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2/2020) is out. It contains three articles and numerous case notes. In the first article, Sabine Corneloup (University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas) and Thalia Kruger (University of Antwerp) give a comprehensive overview of the new Brussels II ter Regulation (Le règlement 2019/1111, Bruxelles II : […]
Vesna Rijavec, Katja Drnovsek, C.H. van Rhee have edited Cross-border enforcement in Europe: national and international perspectives, published by Intersentia. The volume addresses the enforcement of judgments and other authentic instruments in a European cross-border context, as well as enforcement in a selection of national European jurisdictions. The volume is divided into two parts. Part I […]
On 10 August 2020, the European Commission launched a public consultation on Regulation 805/2004 creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims (“the EEO Regulation”). The consultation is carried out in the framework of an ongoing evaluation of the EEO Regulation. In this context, the European Commission “seeks opinions on how the Regulation is working, […]
Rebecca Legendre (University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas) has just published a monograph on fundamental rights and private international Law based on her doctoral thesis: Droits fondamentaux et droit international privé – Réflexion en matière personnelle et familiale, Dalloz, 2020. The author has provided the following abstract in English: Fundamental rights put private international law to […]
On 13 May 2020, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) issued an interesting decision on jurisdiction based on Article 7(2) of the Brussels I bis Regulation in case of online defamation (here). The French Court implemented the Bolagsupplysningen and Ilsjan Case ruled by the Court of Justice of the […]
Toni Marzal (University of Glasgow) has posted From World Actor to Local Community: Territoriality and the Scope of Application of EU Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: This chapter offers a reconstruction of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to the territorial scope of application of EU […]
On 26 May 2020, the European Commission launched a public consultation on cross-border investment within the EU. Why this initiative? First, the Commission is currently working on a new regulatory framework for intra-EU investments in order to make the internal market more attractive for foreign investors. The main objective of the future legislation will be to […]
In October 2019, Vincent Richard defended a PhD thesis on default judgments in the European judicial area, written under the joint supervision of Gilles Cuniberti and Loïc Cadiet. The abstract reads: French judges regularly refuse to enforce foreign judgements rendered by default against a defendant who has not appeared. This finding is also true for other Member States, as […]
The University of Lausanne (LL.M. Programme in International Business Law and CEDIDAC), along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Connection Science Lab and the AI Transparency Institute are inviting abstracts on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Dispute Resolution, or Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Private International Law (PIL). Papers of interest on AI and Dispute Resolution […]
Gisela Rühl (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Humboldt-University of Berlin) has posted Settlement of International Commercial Disputes Post-Brexit, or: United We Stand Taller on SSRN. The abstract reads: The European market for the settlement of international commercial disputes is currently dominated by London. According to official statistics, about 80% of the cases brought before the London Commercial […]
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee issued on 22 April 2020 a draft report with recommendations to the Commission on a Digital Services Act which, we believe, is of particular interest for private international law (PIL) specialists. While the document mainly focuses on the approximation of Member States’ substantive laws in the field of digital services, it […]
Giesela Rühl (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Humboldt-University of Berlin) has posted Private International Law Post-Brexit: Between Plague and Cholera on SSRN. The abstract reads: Over the course of the last two decades, the European legislature has adopted a large number of regulations dealing with private international law. As long as the UK was a member of the […]
Springer has recently published a new volume on Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility in the series Ius Comparatum – Global Studies in Comparative Law. The book has been edited by Catherine Kessedjian (University Panthéon-Assas Paris II) and Humberto Cantú Rivera (Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico). This book addresses one of the core challenges in […]
A free webinar on Force Majeure and Hardship under Cross-border and Comparative Perspectives will take place on 8 April 2020 at 17.00 BST, organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Speakers include Alice Decramer (avocat, Signature Litigation Paris), Nicole Langlois (Barrister, XXIV Old Buildings) and Tom Sullivan (partner & attorney, Shook Hardy Bacon, Philadelphia). The […]
Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Sabine Gless (University of Basel), Chris Thomale (Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg) and Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg University) have posted Business and Human Rights: Making the Legally Binding Instrument Work in Public, Private and Criminal Law on SSRN. The paper’s starting point is the United Nations […]
On 27 February 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its ruling in BALTA, a case concerning the enforceability of choice-of-court clauses in insurance contracts (an English translation of the judgment was not available at the time of publishing this post). The Court had addressed a similar issue in 2005, in […]