Recently, a decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof or BGH) was published on the recognition of a judgment in a case of international surrogate motherhood. An unmarried German woman had entered into a surrogacy arrangement in Mexico City. Unlike in previous cases decided by the court, donated eggs and donated sperm were […]
Two recent Grand Chamber judgments of the Court of Justice suggest that the “principle of recognition” in international family law has undergone a qualitative shift: It does more than set vague limits on the outcomes reached by the national laws of Member States. Instead, read together, Mirin and Cupriak-Trojan establish a broad principle of free […]
The 11th Journal of Private International Law Conference will take place in Zurich from 1-3 April 2027. The conference organizers, Tanja Domej and Christiane von Bary, as well as the editors of the Journal, Jonathan Harris and Paul Beaumont, have provided the following call for papers inviting submissions of proposals for the conference. Following the […]