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Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg) has published the second edition of his treatise on European Civil Procedural Law (EuropäischesContinue Reading
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The Jean Monnet Chair in European Civil Procedure, hosted by the Madrid-based IE University, is the first Chair entirely devoted toContinue Reading
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Cedric Ryngaert, Professor of Public International Law at the Utrecht University, has kindly accepted to provide a presentation of hisContinue Reading
The topic of Brexit has been in the hearts and minds of private international lawyers ever since the Brexit referendum.Continue Reading
Massimo Benedettelli (University of Bari) is the author of International Arbitration in Italy, which has just been published by WoltersContinue Reading
On 11 January 2021, the Tax and Law Department of HEC Paris will host an online workshop titled What future forContinue Reading
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The EU has developed a common judicial area where judgments given in one EU Member State are recognised and canContinue Reading
In December 2020, the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC), which brings together the commercial courts of several countriesContinue Reading
Not much to be reported on the activity of the Court for January 2021 on PIL (nor for February, asContinue Reading
As reported in other blogs (see for instance here and here), the Trade and Cooperation Agreement that the EU andContinue Reading
As president of EAPIL and an editor of the blog, and on behalf of all the officers of the associationContinue Reading
The latest issue of Acta Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica, a periodical edited by the Faculty of Law of the Charles University inContinue Reading
Many good wishes for the Holiday Season and the New Year from the Editors of the EAPIL blog! Blogging willContinue Reading
Elie Lenglart, a lecturer at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, gave an online conference on La théorie générale des conflitsContinue Reading
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This is a guest post by Katažyna Bogdzevič (Mikša), an associate professor of the Institute of International and European Union LawContinue Reading
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On 10 December 2020, the CJEU decided in the case of A. B. and B. B. v Personal Exchange International LimitedContinue Reading
A new development in Poland concerning the legal situation of children born to same-sex couples, including through surrogacy, is worthContinue Reading
Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of 25 November 2020 on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers andContinue Reading
The post below was written by Bernard Haftel, who is Professor of Private International Law at the University of SorbonneContinue Reading
Tamás Szabados (Eötvös Loránd University) published In Search of the Holy Grail of the Conflict of Laws of Cultural Property:Continue Reading
In December 2019 the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) convened experts and stakeholders from around the world toContinue Reading
As readers of this blog know, the first EAPIL (Virtual) Seminar, devoted to the impact of Brexit on Private InternationalContinue Reading
The author of this post is Michiel Poesen, PhD candidate at KU Leuven. This post tells a short story aboutContinue Reading
The post below was written by Peter Mankowski, who is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Hamburg.Continue Reading
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The author of this post is Caterina Benini, a Phd student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart inContinue Reading
The PAX Moot is a specialised moot court competition dedicated to students interested in Private International Law. The 2021 RoundContinue Reading
The post below was written by Adrian Briggs QC, who is Professor of Private International Law at the University ofContinue Reading
The EAPIL blog hosts an online symposium on the ruling of the Court of Justice in the case of WikingerhofContinue Reading
The Italian publisher ESI has recently published a book titled EU Regulations 650/2012, 1103 and 1104/2016: Cross-Border Families, International Successions, MediationContinue Reading
December 2020 will be quiet at the Court (regarding private international law cases). The judgment in C-774/19 Personal Exchange InternationalContinue Reading
Vanessa Barbé (University of Valenciennes) and Christina Koumpli (University of Avignon) are inviting abstracts on The Impact of Brexit onContinue Reading
On 2 December 2020, following a lengthy procedure, the Recast Service Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 of 25 November 2020 on the serviceContinue Reading
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The author of this post is Franz Kaps, Lawyer at DL Piper, Frankfurt am Main. To stop the spread ofContinue Reading
The University of Lyon (EDIEC-CREDIP) hosted a webinar (in French) under the title Situations in Motion : Debate on the Method,Continue Reading
By a judgment of 18 November 2020 in the case Ryanair v DelayFix, the CJEU has ruled that an assigneeContinue Reading
The latest edition (October 2020) of the Thessaloniki Bar Review (Armenopoulos) includes a section devoted to the application of theContinue Reading
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 includes only one article on a topic of privateContinue Reading
I attended recently a discussion among scholars about the notion of periculum in mora for the purposes of Article 7Continue Reading
The first post of the EAPIL blog was published one year ago, on 25 November 2019. More than 300 postsContinue Reading
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The 2020 Annual Conference of the French Association for European Studies (AFEE) will focus on Family within the Legal Order ofContinue Reading
Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) is the editor of a new book offering commentaries of the most important ofContinue Reading
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As announced earlier on this blog, EAPIL will hold its first Virtual Seminar on 11 December 2020, from 11 a.m. toContinue Reading
On 23 November 2020, at 9 am MET, the Université Côte d’Azur will host, via Zoom, the final conference of theContinue Reading
The fourth online public workshop on Private International Law after Brexit from global, European, Commonwealth and intra-UK perspectives, organised byContinue Reading
The Multiple Uses of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts: Theory and Practice is the title of a bookContinue Reading
The European Order for Payment (EOP, Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006), the European Small Claims Procedure (ESCP, Regulation (EC) No 861/2007)Continue 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
An online workshop under the title Private International Law in the UK after Brexit (Commercial focus) will take place onContinue Reading
On 16 November 2020, the JURI Committee of the European Parliament will vote on the draft recommendations for second readingContinue Reading
Tobias Lutzi (University of Cologne) is the author of Private International Law Online – Internet Regulation and Civil Liability in theContinue Reading
Giancarlo Frosio (University of Strasbourg) has posted Enforcement of European Rights on a Global Scale on SSRN. The abstract reads:Continue Reading
Emmanuel Guinchard (Northumbria University) edited Rome I and Rome II in Practice, just published by Intersentia. The publisher’s blurb readsContinue Reading
On 21 May 2020, the Piraeus Court of Appeal ruled that a judgment on a family maintenance matter, issued byContinue Reading
In a recent e-mail exchange, Paul Beaumont and Jayne Holliday (both working now at the University of Stirling) drew myContinue Reading
David Hodson is the author of Family Law Leaves the EU – A Summary Guide for Practitioners, published by JordanContinue Reading
Alfonso Luis Calvo Caravaca (University Carlos III, Madrid) and Javier Carrascosa González (University of Murcia) are the author of a treatiseContinue Reading
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In a resolution of 8 November 2019 (III CZP 24/19, available here, in Polish), the Supreme Court of Poland addressed the issueContinue Reading
The first EAPIL Seminar will take place on 11 December 2020, from 11 am to 1 pm (MET). It willContinue Reading
John Coyle (University of North Carolina) has posted Cruise Contracts, Public Policy, and Foreign Forum Selection Clauses on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
After the semaine blanche, the Court of Justice will deliver some judgments and opinions, starting on 11 November 2020, with C-433/19,Continue Reading
In May 2019 a seminar took place in Madrid on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of UNIDROIT. A bookContinue Reading
We are happy to announce that Alina Ontanu, of the University of Rotterdam, has joined the team of the EAPILContinue Reading
On 6 November 2020 (13:30 – 16:30 CET) the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR) will be holding itsContinue Reading
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A webinar, organised by the Young EU Private International Law Research Network (an EAPIL activity), will take place on 16Continue Reading
Complaints about the inefficiency of enforcement mechanisms at national and transnational level are not new. The insufficiency of existing national andContinue Reading
A collection of essays edited by Florian Heindler (Sigmund Freud University, Vienna) has recently been published by Jan Sramek Verlag,Continue Reading
The Russian Legal Information Agency has announced that Russia’s Justice Ministry, acting jointly with the Foreign Ministry and the SupremeContinue Reading
Ronald A. Brand (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) has published a paper titled Comparative Method and International Litigation on theContinue Reading
Matthias Weller (University of Bonn) has posted The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention: New Trends in Trust Management on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
The EAPIL Blog hosts today two posts on the ruling of the Court of Justice in E.E., a case regardingContinue Reading
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A free webinar on Access to Justice in cross-border Litigation: Lugano v. the Hague will take place on 27 October 2020, atContinue Reading
Joseph William Singer (Harvard Law School) has published a new casebook on the American Conflict of Laws (Choice of LawContinue Reading
A new commentary on the Brussels I bis Regulation, in Greek, has recently been published. The book is edited byContinue Reading
As announced earlier on this blog, the Working Group on International Property Law will hold a webinar on the suitability and feasibilityContinue Reading
Ilaria Viarengo and Francesca Villata (both University of Milan) have edited Planning the Future of Cross Border Families – A PathContinue Reading
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In a judgment of 3 June 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that sanctions issued by the Security CouncilContinue Reading
Serena Forlati (University of Ferrara) and Pietro Franzina (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) are the editors of aContinue 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
This post was written by Giesela Rühl, LL.M. (Berkeley), Humboldt-University of Berlin, and is also available via conflictoflaws.net. The protection of human rightsContinue Reading
The members of the European Association of Private International Law have recently received, by e-mail, the first issue of theContinue Reading
On few occasions Polish tax authorities made references to the EU Succession Regulation and applied foreign law designated by itsContinue Reading
Hélène Péroz (University of Nantes) has edited a commentary of Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 of 6 July 2016 on promoting the freeContinue Reading
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The members of the proposed EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law will host a webinar 20 October 2020, fromContinue Reading
Situations exist where a judicial document addressed to a person based abroad may be communicated to a lawyer representing thatContinue Reading
The 2021 winter course of the Hague Academy of International Law will be held online from 11 to 29 JanuaryContinue Reading
On 14 August 2020, the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law of the MPI Luxembourg met online with aContinue Reading
What is ‘habitual residence’ for the purposes of the EU regulations on family matters (succession included)? The questions, coupled withContinue Reading
Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) edited a Compendium of the Hague Conventions and Protocols enriched by case law from Belgian,Continue Reading
Haris Meidanis’ new article on international mediation has just appeared at the current issue (2020/2) of the Journal of PrivateContinue Reading
The Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) has selected a team to prepare a draft UniformContinue Reading
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On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Herbert Kronke, pupils, friends, companions and colleagues got together to honor himContinue Reading
The Hague Lectures of Lauro Gama (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) on the Unidroit Principles and the LawContinue Reading
The Supreme Administrative Court in Poland (Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny – NSA) issued on 10 September 2020 two judgments concerning theContinue Reading
Tilman Imm has written a thesis on the mechanism of equivalence in Financial and Capital Markets Law (Der finanz- und kapitalmarktrechtlicheContinue Reading
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An online event titled Coordinating Brussels Ia with other Instruments of EU Law: A Roundtable on Theoretical and Practical IssuesContinue Reading
The author of this post is Omar Vanin. He earned a Phd in Private International Law from the University ofContinue Reading
Ioannis Revolidis, a lecturer at the University of Malta and a visiting lecturer at the Frederick University Cyprus, has recentlyContinue Reading
This post has been written by Vincent Richard, Senior Research Fellow at the MPI Luxembourg, Department of European and ComparativeContinue Reading
A series of webinars devoted to the Conventions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law will be offered fromContinue Reading
The editorial team in charge of the EAPIL blog is delighted to announce that a new editor has joined theContinue Reading
The Polish periodical Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego (Review of International, European and Comparative Law – PWPM) launchedContinue 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
A new monograph written in German deals with cross-border insurance brokerage in the Single Market (Christian Rüsing, Grenzüberschreitende Versicherungsvermittlung imContinue Reading
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Albert Henke (University of Milan) has been awarded the EU-funded Jean Monnet Module on ‘Multilevel, Mutiparty and Multisector Cross-Border LitigationContinue Reading
On 27 September 1968, the (then) six member States of the European Communities signed the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction andContinue Reading
The French Committee of Private International Law has published a book presenting portraits of 15 former presidents of the CommitteeContinue Reading
It is widely known that disputes related to sports are most of the times referred to arbitration. Football is ofContinue Reading
Vesna Rijavec, Katja Drnovsek, C.H. van Rhee have edited Cross-border enforcement in Europe: national and international perspectives, published by Intersentia. TheContinue Reading
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A Chinese divorce judgment delivered on 20 December 2013 by a court from Beijing was recognised by a French court in SouthContinue Reading
On 10 August 2020, the European Commission launched a public consultation on Regulation 805/2004 creating a European Enforcement Order forContinue Reading
As reported in this blog, the CJEU gave on 9 July 2020 its long-awaited judgment in VKI v Volkswagen (CaseContinue 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
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Franco Ferrari (New York University Law School) has posted A New Paradigm for International Uniform Substantive Law Conventions on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
Csongor István Nagy (University of Szeged), has posted on SSRN a paper titled The Reception of Collective Actions in Europe:Continue Reading
Pravovedenie, an academic peer-reviewed legal journal published quarterly in Russia is calling for papers to be included in a special issueContinue Reading
The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered its ruling in the Novo Banco case (C‑253/19) on 16Continue Reading
On 16 July 2020, the Government of Portugal decided to start the process whereby Portugal will, in due course, becomeContinue Reading
The French Committee for private international law will hold a conference on the codification of private international law in theContinue Reading
Woo-jung Jon is the author of Cross-border Transfer and Collateralisation of Receivables – A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Legal Systems, publishedContinue Reading
Apostolos Anthimos has posted on SSRN a paper titled Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the Field of BilateralContinue Reading
The number of transnational couples continuously increases within the European Union. At the same time, there are still large differencesContinue Reading
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The author of this post is Giulio Monga, a PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan.Continue Reading
Jorg Sladič is an associate professor of international and European law at the European faculty of law in Ljubljana (Slovenia).Continue Reading
On 21 July 2020 the Unidroit Secretariat released a Note on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and theContinue Reading
Carlos Manuel Vazquez (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Extraterritoriality as Choice of Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: The properContinue Reading
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I have reported earlier on the Commisimpex case and the various decisions of the French Supreme Court on civil andContinue Reading
Following successful events in Bonn and Würzburg, the third iteration of the conference for young German-speaking scholars in private internationalContinue Reading
The author of this post is Giulio Monga, a PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan.Continue Reading
On 14 July 2020, Austria ratified the 1965 Hague Service Convention. The Convention is set to enter into force for AustriaContinue Reading
Kamalia Mehtiyeva (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne School of Law) has just published a monograph on the Concept of Judicial Cooperation basedContinue Reading
Practice shows that we’re far away from a perfect world of cooperation between state authorities in the field of cross-borderContinue Reading
One consequence of the Europeanisation of private international law is the need to examine and characterise certain phenomena, which haveContinue Reading
The Court has delivered its ruling in Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG (Case C-343/19) yesterday. The court rules thatContinue Reading
Toni Marzal (University of Glasgow) has posted From World Actor to Local Community: Territoriality and the Scope of Application ofContinue Reading
In the last decade, the French law of diplomatic immunity has changed numerous times. This is not great for legalContinue Reading
On 7 July 2020, the Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs will vote on the provisional agreement resulting fromContinue Reading
Peer Zumbansen edited The Many Lives of Transnational Law – Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal, published by Cambridge University Press.Continue Reading
Ilaria Viarengo and Pietro Franzina have edited The EU Regulations on the Property Regimes of International Couples – A Commentary, publishedContinue Reading
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached on 30 June 2020 a provisionalContinue Reading
Before the judicial holiday, several decisions will be delivered regarding EU instruments on private international law. The decision of theContinue Reading
Iacyr de Aguilar Vieira and Gustavo Cerqueira have edited a volume on the CISG in the Americas (La Convention deContinue Reading
Still on the application of foreign law (see my previous post here), a second topic has caught my eye: thatContinue Reading
William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) and Wenliang Zhang (Renmin University of China) have posted Reciprocity in China-U.S. JudgmentsContinue Reading
On 22 June 2020, Parliament and Council negotiators reached a deal on the first EU-wide rules on collective redress. TheContinue Reading
While doing some research on the topic of the application of foreign law (frustrating: nothing has happened at the international levelContinue Reading
Aaron D. Simowitz (Willamette University College of Law) has posted Convergence and the Circulation of Money Judgments on SSRN. The abstractContinue Reading
On 28 May 2020, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decided to refer a question for a preliminary ruling toContinue Reading
On 26 May 2020, the European Commission launched a public consultation on cross-border investment within the EU. Why this initiative? First,Continue Reading
In October 2019, Vincent Richard defended a PhD thesis on default judgments in the European judicial area, written under the joint supervision ofContinue Reading
The Centre of Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary University London is publishing a new journal, the Transnational Commercial LawContinue Reading
On 12 May 2020, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales delivered an interesting decision in SAS Institute Inc.Continue Reading
The Hague Academy of International Law announced the extension of the deadline to apply for the 2021 Centre for StudiesContinue Reading
The Russian journal Pravovedenie has issued a call for papers on Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments: problems and prospects. HavingContinue Reading
Jean-Sylvestre Bergé and Giulio Cesare Giorgini have edited Le sens des libertés économiques de circulation – The sense of economic freedomsContinue Reading
In February 2020, the Spanish Constitutional Court ordered the review of a judgment requiring the actor Christopher Lee to pay 710.000 EurosContinue Reading
By a decision of 13 March 2020, the Munich Court of Appeal, having regard to the expected delay in the processing ofContinue Reading
Place of Performance – A Comparative Analysis is the title of a book authored by Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli. ItContinue Reading
The University of Lausanne (LL.M. Programme in International Business Law and CEDIDAC), along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ConnectionContinue Reading
The author of this post is Vincent Richard, Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European andContinue Reading
Cambridge University Press has just published the second edition of the Concise Commentary on the Rome I Regulation edited byContinue Reading
Bertrand Copigneaux, Nikita Vlasov and Emarildo Bani of IDATE DigiWorld, Nikolay Tcholtchev and Philipp Lämmel of Fraunhofer Institute for OpenContinue Reading
On 25 May 2020, the CJEU has resumed its activity. This means hearings will be held again. None is scheduledContinue Reading
The Diesel scandal has produced a wave of litigation word-wide. We are still waiting for the CJEU’s decision on whetherContinue 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 author of this post is Nadia Rusinova, Lecturer in International/European Private Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. This is theContinue Reading
At its fifty-second session, in 2019, UNCITRAL considered a proposal from the European Union on applicable law in insolvency proceedingsContinue Reading
The author of this post is Aygun Mammadzada, PhD Researcher at the Institute of Maritime Law of the University of Southampton. Status quo WithdrawalContinue Reading
The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 is out. It contains one article concerned with privateContinue Reading
In a recently reported ruling (No 423/2018, in Chronicles of Private Law, 2019, p. 204), the Greek Supreme Court (Άρειος Πάγος)Continue Reading
Maud Minois (University Paris Descartes) has published earlier this year a monograph presenting her Research on Characterization in the PrivateContinue Reading
The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) rendered an important ruling on jurisdiction and applicable law in claims against internet portals publishingContinue Reading
Fernando Gascón Inchausti (Complutense University of Madrid) and Burkhard Hess (MPI Luxembourg) have edited The Future of the European LawContinue Reading
William S. Dodge has posted Jurisdiction, State Immunity, and Judgments in the Restatement (Fourth) of US Foreign Relation Law onContinue Reading
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and following a video message of the Secretary General, the Permanent Bureau (PB) ofContinue Reading
The most recent issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé is out. It contains three articles and numerousContinue Reading
Jayne Holliday has written Clawback Law in the Context of Succession. The book is part of the Studies in PrivateContinue Reading
In accordance with its goal to be a pan-European forum for reflection on issues of private international law, the EuropeanContinue Reading
Gisela Rühl (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Humboldt-University of Berlin) has posted Settlement of International Commercial Disputes Post-Brexit, or: United We StandContinue Reading
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee issued on 22 April 2020 a draft report with recommendations to the Commission onContinue Reading
Catherine Kessedjian (Emeritus Paris II University) and Valérie Pironon (University of Nantes) have published the second edition of Catherine Kessedjian’sContinue Reading
The author of this post is Aygun Mammadzada, PhD Researcher at the Institute of Maritime Law of the University of Southampton. This is theContinue Reading
Professor (and co-editor of this blog) Gilles Cuniberti has published a new article on SSRN, entitled Signalling the Enforceability ofContinue Reading
The latest edition of the Brussels Agenda, published by the Joint Brussels Office of the Law Societies, features three interestingContinue Reading
The author of this post is Caterina Benini, a PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart inContinue Reading
Felix M. Wilke has published a well-researched, innovative and thought-provoking book titled A Conceptual Analysis of Private International Law (Intersentia, 2019).Continue Reading
My colleague Hélène Peroz has reported on this interesting judgment delivered on 4 March 4 2020 by the French SupremeContinue Reading
Giesela Rühl (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Humboldt-University of Berlin) has posted Private International Law Post-Brexit: Between Plague and Cholera on SSRN.Continue Reading
Jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments are separate issues in private international law. When arising outside of the context ofContinue Reading
Due to the circumstances, all oral hearings at the CJEU scheduled until 25 May 2020 are postponed to a laterContinue Reading
Tamás Szabados (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) is the author of Economic Sanctions in EU Private International Law, a bookContinue Reading
A collection of essays titled Innovación Docente y Derecho internacional privado (Educational innovation and private international law) has recently been publishedContinue Reading
Edward Elgar has just published Conflict of Laws and the Internet, by Pedro de Miguel Asensio has published. The blurbContinue Reading
Tiago Andreotti is the author of Dispute Resolution in Transnational Securities Transactions, a monograph published by Hart. The Blurb reads:Continue Reading
On 6 April 2020, the High Court of England and Wales handed down its judgment in the VW NOx EmissionsContinue Reading
The author of this post is Eduardo Álvarez-Armas, Brunel University London and Université Catholique de Louvain. As announced in this blog, Anne Peters, SabineContinue Reading
Anatol Dutta and Wolfgang Wurmnest edited a book on European Private International Law and its ramifications with treaties signed byContinue Reading
The sixth edition of Derecho de los Negocios Internacionales, a treatise on international business law authored by José Carlos FernándezContinue Reading
Brexit and its legal consequences was the topic of an earlier post in this blog, suggesting the United Kingdom should joinContinue Reading
On 25 and 26 September 2020, the University of Bonn will host a conference titled The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention: ProspectsContinue 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
On 27 February 2020 the Court of Justice rendered its ruling in Corporis (case C-25/19), a case regarding the interpretationContinue Reading
María Asunción Cebrián Salvat and Isabel Lorente Martínez (both from the University of Murcia) have edited a collection of essaysContinue Reading
Confinement has severely curtailed our freedom of movement, but it has certainly not put an end to disagrements and disputes.Continue Reading
On 2 April 2020, the conclusions of Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona in Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen (Case C-343/19) were published. They addContinue Reading
William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) has published The New Presumption against Extraterritoriality in the Harvard Law Review. CanonsContinue Reading
Springer has recently published a new volume on Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility in the series Ius ComparatumContinue Reading
On 1 April 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Aspen Underwriting Ltd v Credit Europe Bank on the concept ofContinue Reading
The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg has launched a call for applications for PhD scholarships in 2021. Advanced doctoral students workingContinue Reading
Peter Mankowski is the editor of a Research Handbook on the Brussels Ibis Regulation, just published by Edward Elgar. Here’s theContinue Reading
Edoardo Rossi is the author of a monograph in Italian titled La Sharing economy nel diritto internazionale privato europeo (SharingContinue Reading
The author of this post is Giulio Monga, a PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan.Continue Reading
The raising of a problem child The creation of the European Patent Court has been fraught with difficulties. After SpainContinue Reading
A free webinar on Force Majeure and Hardship under Cross-border and Comparative Perspectives will take place on 8 April 2020 at 17.00Continue Reading
April 2020 opened at the Court of Justice with the publication of two AG’s opinions, as announced: AG Saugmandsgaard Øe‘sContinue Reading
On 1 April 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX on the fascinating issue ofContinue Reading
On 21 March 2020 the Fellows of the European Law Institute (ELI) have approved a Report on the Protection of AdultsContinue Reading
Luk De Baere and Frits Blees are the authors of Insurance Aspects of Cross-Border Road Traffic Accidents, published by ElevenContinue Reading
On 2 April 2020, the Hague Academy of International Law announced its decision to postpone the Summer Courses on PublicContinue Reading
Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Sabine Gless (University of Basel), Chris Thomale (Ruprecht-KarlsContinue Reading
If you notice something strange on the EAPIL website today, don’t worry. We’re upgrading some of the site functions, whichContinue Reading
On 26 March 2020, advocate general Tanchev delivered his Opinion on the JE case (case C-249/19) – the first caseContinue Reading
The general course that Catherine Kessedjian (University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas) gave at the Hague Academy of InternationalContinue Reading
Courts in the EU increasingly issue injunctions against anti-suit injunctions, or “anti-anti-suit injunctions”. We have already read in this blogContinue Reading
The author of this post is María Barral Martínez, trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Union. OnContinue Reading
On 26 July 2019, the Greek Supreme Court gave a ruling involving the interpretation of the Brussels II bis RegulationContinue Reading
On 3 March 2020, the international chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed that French courts may issue anContinue Reading
Christoph Schmon is the author of The Interconnection of the EU Regulations Brussels I Recast and Rome I – JurisdictionContinue Reading
On 27 February 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its ruling in BALTA, a caseContinue Reading
Marion Ho-Dac, of the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, has joined the team of editors of this blog. Check her first postContinue Reading
The readers of this blog may have noticed that very little has been published by the Court of Justice lately.Continue Reading
The author of this post is Tomaso Ferando, Research Professor at the University of Antwerp. This is the third inContinue Reading
Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law) has posted Provisional Measures in Family Law and the Brussels II Ter Regulation onContinue Reading
The Department of Law of the University of Aarhus and the European Association of Private International have decided to postponeContinue Reading
Teemu Juutilainen is the author of Secured Credit in Europe – From Conflicts to Compatibility, which is about to be publishedContinue Reading
In May 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation amending the 2001 Evidence Regulation. The name ofContinue Reading
This is the second in a series of posts aimed to explore the impact of the coronavirus crisis on theContinue Reading
The author of this post is Giovanni Chiapponi, research fellow at the MPI Luxembourg. The post is based on a presentationContinue Reading
Olivier Cachard and Paul Klötgen (both University of Nancy) have published a new edition of their manual of private internationalContinue Reading
The author of this post is Marlene Brosch, senior research fellow at the MPI Luxembourg. The first advisory opinion ofContinue Reading
In a judgment delivered on 4 March 2020, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation)Continue Reading
Edward Elgar Publishing has just launched a book series devoted to private international law. The first book in the seriesContinue Reading
On 13 February 2020, the CJEU ruled again on the competence of the court to hear passenger compensation claims underContinue Reading
The first issue of the open-access journal Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional for 2020 is out. It includes more than fifty papers, coveringContinue Reading
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is seeking two legal officers. Candidates are expected toContinue Reading
Johnny Hallyday, born Jean-Philippe Smet, died in 2017 age 74. Over a career of 57 years, he released more thanContinue Reading
On 14 of February 2020 a new law undermining the independence of judiciary in Poland (a so-called “muzzle law“) entered intoContinue 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
No hearings on requests for a preliminary ruling concerning private international law are scheduled for March 2020. Conversely, several opinionsContinue Reading
The European Association of Private International Law will hold its founding conference in Aarhus on 14, 15 and 16 MayContinue Reading
Milana Karayanidi is the author of Rethinking Judicial Jurisdiction in Private International Law, the most recent release in the HartContinue Reading
Following the adoption of the Judgments Convention, on 2 July 2019, the Hague Conference on Private International Law has resumedContinue Reading
Triggered by recent events, notably the Dieselgate scandal, collective redress is now back on the EU civil justice agenda (seeContinue Reading
On 29 January 2020, the Rechtbank Rotterdam (a Dutch court of first instance) ruled on the law applicable to claimsContinue Reading
The proceedings of the symposium held in June 2019 on the Paris international commercial chambers were published in a specialContinue Reading
The fourth research seminar of the IFITIS Research Project, led by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, will take place in Nice on 13 MarchContinue Reading
The first issue of the Journal du droit international for 2020 has just been released. It contains two articles andContinue Reading
On 29 November 2019, the Council of the European Union adopted a general approach regarding the recast of Regulation 1393/2007 on theContinue Reading
The EAPIL founding conference, scheduled to take place in Aarhus on 14, 15 and 16 May 2020, is fast approaching.Continue Reading
Which rules are more important to determine the protection of weaker parties in financial disputes – the Brussels I bisContinue Reading
On 10 February 2020, the European Commission announced its intention to open a process of consultation to get feedback fromContinue Reading
The 12th edition of the leading French treatise on private international law of Prof. Pierre Mayer (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) is out.Continue Reading
Maria Caterina Baruffi and Matteo Ortino (both University of Verona) have edited Trending topics in international and EU law: legal andContinue Reading
Luis de Lima Pinheiro (university of Lisbon) has posted Public Policy and Private International Law – Portugal on SSRN. TheContinue Reading
In 2006 a German patient received, in Germany, defective breast implants manufactured by Poly Implant Prothèse SA (‘PIP’), a FrenchContinue Reading
As reported earlier in this blog, the Queen Mary University of London will host a series of workshops on Private InternationalContinue Reading
On 29 January 2020, the District Court of The Hague dismissed the claim of a Palestinian-Dutch Citizen against the ChiefContinue Reading
Intersentia has recently published a monograph by Ayse Nihan Karadayi Yalim (University of Antwerp) on Interpretation and Gap Filling in InternationalContinue Reading
The author of this post is François Mailhé (University of Picardy – Jules Verne). “Nul n’a de droit à l’enfant”, that is, noContinue Reading
In 2009, AGL, a dual Italian-Israeli citizen, and SRL, an Israeli citizen, married in Milan. The spouses, who were bothContinue Reading
In 2016, an application for the recognition of a judgment rendered by the Southern District Court of New York againstContinue Reading
Symeon Symeonides posted on SSRN the Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases for 2019, now in its 33rd year. ThisContinue Reading
Compared to January (with the hearings I had announced here, plus AG Szpunar’s opinion on Rina, delivered on the 14th), FebruaryContinue Reading
Today, 31 January 2020, at midnight (11 PM GMT), the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. This is aContinue Reading
Symeon Symeonides compiled a bibliography, available on SSRN, of books and articles in English in the field of private internationalContinue Reading
Lydia Lundstedt and Erik Sinander (both Stockholm University) have published Enhancing Critical Thinking in Private International Law in The LawContinue Reading
A collection of essays edited by Elisabetta Bergamini (University of Udine) and Chiara Ragni (University of Milan) has recently beenContinue Reading
The European Order for Payment (EOP) is an efficient tool against recalcitrant debtors. The conditions for the order’s issuance areContinue Reading
We are delighted to announce that Matthias Lehmann, of the University of Bonn, has joined the team of editors ofContinue Reading
On 18 December 2019, the French Supreme Court on private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled on the scopeContinue Reading
The 38th issue of the open access journal Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales was released in December 2019. It includesContinue Reading
On 28 February 2020 the Queen Mary University of London will host the first of four public AHRC (Arts andContinue Reading
Adriani Dori, a research fellow at the MPI Luxembourg, has drawn my attention to a decision to request a preliminaryContinue Reading
AMICABLE, a project co-funded by the European Commission, aims to create Best Practice Tools assisting with the enforceability of mediated agreements in the EU,Continue Reading
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law has published a new volume of The Judges’ Newsletter, a biannualContinue Reading
The main focus of the third issue of the French Revue Critique de Droit International Privé for 2019 is onContinue Reading
The fourth edition of the IAPL-MPI Summer School, organised by the International Association of Procedural Law and the Max PlanckContinue Reading
The post below was written by Martina Mantovani, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. The Schrems II case,Continue Reading
UPDATE – 5 March 2020: the conference has been cancelled. On 23 April 2020, the Catholic University of Milan willContinue Reading
The PAX Moot is a specialised moot court competition focused on Transnational Law and Private International Law issues. Registration isContinue Reading
The Humboldt University of Berlin has issued a call for applications for two doctoral positions in the framework of theContinue Reading
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (University College London), Federico Mucciarelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Edmund-Philipp Schuster (London School of Economics) andContinue Reading
On 4 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union held in UB v. VA, Tiger SCI andContinue Reading
According to a press release published on 9 January 2020, the MEPs can soon start negotiating the final shape thatContinue Reading
The author of this post is François Mailhé (University of Amiens). On 18 December 2019, in three decisions, the French Cour deContinue Reading
The French university Paris II (Panthéon Assas) established the Assas International Law Review (Revue de droit international d’Assas) in 2018.Continue Reading
On 12 December 2019, Judge Bruno Simma and the Drafting Team of The Hague Rules on Business and Human RightsContinue Reading
The European Group of Private International Law (EGPIL-GEDIP) has published the minutes (in French) of its 2019 Meeting in Katowice.Continue Reading
Based on its Implementing Decision of 5 November 2019, on the financing of the Justice Programme, the Commission announced its Work ProgramContinue 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
Private International Law kept the Court busy in 2019 (23 cases were decided only on the “Brussels system”, either byContinue Reading
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international was just released. It contains two articles relating to private internationalContinue Reading
Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (University of Edinburgh) and María Blanca Noodt Taquela (University of Buenos Aires) have edited Diversity and IntegrationContinue 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
By a ruling of 12 December 2019 in ML v Aktiva Finants OÜ (case C-433/18), the CJEU clarified the interpretation ofContinue Reading
Background On 11 April 2018, the Commission published a proposal for a new Directive on representative actions for the protectionContinue Reading
As advertised in a previous post, the founding conference of the European Association of Private International Law will take placeContinue 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 28 November 2019 the European Added Value Unit published a study accompanying the European Parliament’s legislative own-initiative report on Common minimum standardsContinue Reading
On 3 October 2018, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that the resContinue Reading
By a ruling of 14 October 2019, the Munich Court of Appeal decided that an application for temporary relief againstContinue 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
Udo Bux (Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament) has written an In Depth AnalysisContinue Reading
The Department of Law of the University of Aarhus, in Denmark, will host the founding conference of the European AssociationContinue Reading
On 18 September 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on the respective scopes of the Brussels IbisContinue 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