The third edition of the EAPIL Winter School will take place in Como between 2 and 6 February 2026. The upcoming edition’s general topic is Values in Private International Law.
Day 1 will be about the protection of weaker contractual parties. The concerns surrounding torts will be dealt with in Day 2. Day 3, on “vulnerable people”, will address the current challenges the arise in relation with children and with adults who are unable to protect their interests. Day 4 will revolve around the relationships between the values underlying EU texts and those inspiring developments in other regions and worldwide. On Day 5 the focus will shift to a selection of specific fields, such as poverty, and issues at the crossroads of business and human rights.
Registrations are open until 20 January 2026. Detailed information about the program, the registration process and the fees can be found here.
For further inquiries: eapilws@gmail.com.
The Seminar: A Report
Silvia Marino, the Coordinator of the School, made a general presentation of the initiative.
Gilles Cuniberti (Methods in Private International Law: Protecting People and Values) introduced a provocative scene, where the traditional neutrality of private international law will be confronted with the more recent trends of colouring it with new values.
Javier Carrascosa González and Maria Asunción Cebrian Salvat (Consumer) distinguished between ‘traditional’ consumer contracts and ‘new consumers’, including so-called ‘professional consumers’, that represents a challenge to the traditional protective approach.
For Erik Sinander (Worker and Collective Rights) the differences in national laws question the potential role of private international law in the fragmentation and on its methods and advanced possible litigation strategies in industrial actions, where the harm is not accidental, but on purpose.
Anna Wysocka-Bar (Passenger) recalled the high number of legal acts regulating the right of the passengers, and their diverse natures, the consequential difficulties in coordination and in the identification of the role of the Rome I regulation.
Thomas Kadner Graziano (Torts Victims as Vulnerable Parties? and Product Liability) spoke about the protection of the victims of torts. Challenging the interpretation of the Court of Justice of the European Union of Article 7 point 2 of the Brussels I bis regulation, in personality rights the identification of the person and the right to be protected is not immediate, thus weakening the traditional views of tortfeasors and victims. Under the products liability, he disclosed the discussion of real cases related to the role of consumer protection in Article 7 point 2 of the regulation.
Eva-Maria Kieninger (Environmental Claims) shed some light on the importance of choice of law in environmental claims due to the different liability (strict of by fault) that can be envisaged in national legislations and announced a discussion on the current practice in climate change litigation.
Cristina González Beilfuss (Vulnerable Adults) previewed a discussion of the EU proposals on the protection of vulnerable adults, in the light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities triggering a favourable approach to voluntary measures.
Sara De Vido (Women) proposed a critical conversation on private international law categories, making use of feminist and gender theories to imbalance the person. Discussing the very same term woman, she faces cross-border cases on violence.
For Laura Carpaneto (Children and Parenthood) the developing concept of parentage/parenthood/filiation questions its very foundations, starting from the principle that identity of the mother of a child is always certain. In the reproductive market, the risk of commodification of children is real.
Javier Carrascosa González (Mothers and Children in Surrogacy) followed this path, stressing that the legal protection that private international law shall offer mechanisms to prevent children from being treated as objects and the exploitation and deception of the women involved.
Hans van Loon (The EU in the HCCH) opened the presentation of Day 4, illustrating the main features of the impact of the EU private international law in the HCCH Conventions. After the accession of other non-European countries, more synergy and complementarity between global and regional are needed.
In a similar vein, Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (The EU and Third Countries) focussed on the conceptualisation of private international law in other regions, such as South America and Asia. The connections must be global and regional, so that the values discussed in other regional system can develop a global private international law shape.
A common point can be the legal treatment of immigrants and the quest for integration. Hans van Loon and Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (Migrants and Integration) distinguished different kind of immigration, asylum seekers and refugees, protected by international conventions, and labours migrants, in need of a different system of protection.
Recalling the fundamental values enshrined in Article 2 TEU, Johan Meeusen (Minorities: Equality through Private International Law) stressed the significance of equality for conflict of laws in a broad sense. In the lecture, he aims to analyse the inclusion of minority groups through adequate private international law instruments.
Geert van Calster (Business and Human Rights) discussed forum shopping and applicable law as a clear help in business and human rights litigation, as the recent English judgment in Municipio shows. At the same time, jurisdictional battles bleed claimants in human rights cases of scarce resources when they cannot have their claim funded.
Stefano Dominelli (The Right of Nature) showed new frontiers, related to the attribution to legal personality to the nature, or to some parts of it. The potential recognition of a legal status imposes original solutions in the cross-border protection of the environment, that can lead to extraterritoriality.
Finally, Cristina González Beilfuss showed a macro perspective to the topic of Poverty in Private International Law. She left us three questions for future discussion: whether the theme is present in the private international law-related aspects reflections; whether conflict of laws can fight poverties, for example with measures in cooperation with authorities; whether it is partly responsible for inequality and poverty.
— Attendees and lecturers of the second edition.
Still Unsure whether to Attend? See What a Past Attendee Thinks of His Experience!
Paul Lorenz Eichmüller, who took part in the 2025 edition, speaks of the EAPIL Winter School as an opportunity to meet an “enormous variety of speakers with their diverse expertise”, and “devote fully to private international law for an entire week”.
This is, he adds, an “experience which I can definitely recommend to everyone who wants to take their private international la skills to the next level”.
— Paul Lorenz Eichmüller and Fabian Pollitzer on the shores of Lake Como
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A webinar of the 
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On 21 November 2024, the concluding workshop of the fourth project of the 
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The University of Luxembourg will host an event to present a newly released book, 
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On 12 December 2024 the University of Milan will host a conference, in English, titled The Enforcement of the ESG Principles in a Transnational Dimension: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, under the scientific direction of Stefania Bariatti, Luigi Fumagalli, Zeno Crespi Reghizzi, Michele Grassi, Anna Liebman.
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As already noted on this 
On 9 December 2024, at 13.00 CET, UNIDROIT will host a live webinar celebrating the 
On 26 and 27 September 2024, an
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.
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.
On 17 October 2024, a conference on ‘The Anglo-French Approaches to Arbitration’ will take place at King’s College London, UK. This conference will discuss how the French and English approaches differ when dealing with corruption in arbitration and anti-suit injunctions, particularly in light of the recent UK Supreme Court decision in 
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On 8 October 2024, Jeremy Heymann and Marylou Françoise will host a conference on 
The 115th Annual Conference of the 
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The 
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An international conference on the recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation will take place at the Skylounge of the University of Vienna on 12 April 2024.
The question which law applies to the blockchain and assets recorded thereon, such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins or other token, is one of the most hotly debated issues in the conflict of laws (see e.g. the recent book 
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On 8 and 9 March 2024 a conference will be held at the University of Augsburg, organized by Tobias Lutzi, to discuss current developments in connection with punitive damages.
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The Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations (
A new book entitled Blockchain and Private International Law has been published by Brill. It is available in open access and may be downloaded 
The virtual book launch of 
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The 
On 4 December 2023, at 6 p.m. CET, a free webinar will take place in preparation of the 2024 inaugural edition of the 
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On 19 and 20 October 2023, the 
On 21 September 2023 at 17 CET Lex&Forum, in collaboration with 
The European Association of Private International Law, toge
On 13 April 2023, the University Paris Dauphine hosted 
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Registration is open for the 9th Journal of Private International Law Conference.
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The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne will host its 34th
Within the framework of the Jean Monnet Module “CoRiMaR” (2020-2023), the University of Udine, in cooperation with a consortium of European universities, now including University of Essex , De Montfort University, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, East Anglia University, University of Rijeka, University of Belgrade and University of Szeged, organizes the 16th edition of the Summer School on Consumer’s Rights and Market Regulation in the European Union, to be held 12-21 July 2023 in Udine.
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Judge François Ancel (Cour de cassation) and Professor Gustavo Cerqueira (University of Nice) are the editors of a book on the Respective Roles of (French) Courts and Parties in the Application of Choice of Law Rules (
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A conference on The Law of Treaties as Applied to Private International Law is scheduled to take place in Milan on 5 and 6 May 2023, under the auspices of the 
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On 20 January 2023, the 
The University of Coimbra will host, on 27 and 28 January 2023, a conference in English on the Brussels II ter Regulation.
The 
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The Research Group on Private International Law of the University of Silesia (Poland) organizes a conference titled Ukraine-Poland. The Choice of Law Aspects of War and Forced Displacement.
The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the 
Prompted by a kind invitation to participate in the 
On Friday, 2 December 2022, at 4 pm, EAPIL will hold an online seminar on the 
The 9th Annual International Arbitration Lecture organised by Roma Tre University and Unidroit, will be held at Unidroit, in Rome, and online on 30 September 2022.
The 
On 13 September 2022, the French Société de législation comparée will hold a 
The yearly 
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The JUDGTUST Project (Regulation BIa: a standard for free circulation of judgments and mutual trust in the EU) conducted by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in cooperation with Universität Hamburg, University of Antwerp and Internationaal Juridisch Instituut has come to its completion. The findings of the this research are available online 
Ilaria Pretelli
Private International Law areas of knowledge of the Universities Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), Barcelona and Lleida have organised the 
On 23 and 24 February 2023, the fourth 
The Ravenna Campus of the Department of Juridical Sciences of the University of Bologna (Italy) has organised in Ravenna (and online), between 18-23 July 2022, a Summer School on 
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Within the activities of the Jean Monnet Module “CoRiMaR” (Consumer’s Rights and Market Regulation in the European Union), the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Udine (Italy), together with a consortium of European universities including the University of Essex, De Montfort University, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, East Anglia University, University of Belgrade and University of Rijeka, organises the 15th edition of the 
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The Radboud University Nijmegen is organising a hybrid conference on 9-10 June 2022 dedicated to The Role of Courts and Access to Justice in the Digital Era. The programme of the event can be consulted 
Since the Millennium, public interest litigation has become a growing phenomenon in civil courts. Activists and NGOs are filing civil lawsuits, both domestic and cross-border, in order to promote societal and political shifts.
The EAPIL 
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 
The EAPIL Young Research Network is looking forward to welcoming the academic and research community to the beautiful city of Dubrovnik on 14 and 15 May 2022 for a closing conference on the EAPIL Young Research Network’s third research project with the title: Jurisdiction Over Non-EU Defendants – Should the Brussels Ia Regulation be Extended?
There is no fee for attending the conference and we are providing limited assistance in booking the most appropriate accommodation (as explained in the application form).
A series of webinars have taken place since June this year to celebrate European Law Institute’s 10th anniversary. The latest in the series is about the ELI project on the 
DXB – Identities on the move – Documents cross borders
Louis d’Avout (University Paris II Panthéon-Assas) has posted a short paper in French on the Resurgence of the 1934 Franco-British Convention on the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (
On 1 December 2021, at 3 pm CET, the University of Catania will host a webinar, in French, titled Différences culturelles et droit international privé de la famille (Cultural differences and Private International Law in Family Matters), organised by Pasquale Pirrone.
The 
Ghent University (Belgium) and its 
The University of Strasbourg will host a conference on Mutual Trust in the Area of Justice, Freedom and Security (La confiance mutuelle dans l’Espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice : crise(s) et perspectives) on 7-8 October 2021.
The University of Udine, in Italy, will host on 16 and 17 September an on-line conference under the title European Union and Third Countries: Issues on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Foreign Judgments.
On 23 and 24 September 2021, the
On 9 and 10 September 2021, the 
The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the 
Louis Perreau-Saussine and Sophie Lemaire (Université Paris Dauphine) are the editors of a new book on International Mandatory Rules in International Business Law (
The conference titled Child-friendly procedures in cases of international child abduction will take place online on 24 and 25 June 2021. The conference will present the results of research conducted with the 
From 9 to 11 September 2021, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host a conference titled 
On 17 May 2021 (from 5 to 7 pm CET), the 
The Department of Juridical Sciences of the University of Bologna (Italy), Ravenna Campus, is organising a Summer School on Transnational jurisdiction: current issues in civil and commercial matters. This will be held in Ravenna (and online) between 19-23 July 2021.
On 15 and 16 April 2021, the
Based on the priorities defined for the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the area of Justice, the Ministry of Justice of Portugal will host on 30 March 2021 a conference under the title Protecting Vulnerable Adults Across Europe – The Way Forward.
On 5 February 2021, a seminar entitled 
Charlemagne Dagbedji (University of Corsica) organises a webinar (in French) titled “Effective Recognition of Non-Judicial Divorce” (L’efficacité internationale du divorce sans juge).
On 11 January 2021, the Tax and Law Department of HEC Paris will host an online workshop titled What future for Cross-Border Small Claims?
The 2020 Annual Conference of the French Association for European Studies (
As announced earlier on this blog, EAPIL will hold its first Virtual Seminar on 11 December 2020, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (MET).
On 16 November 2020, the JURI Committee of the European Parliament will vote on the draft recommendations for second reading on the proposed 
On 6 November 2020 (13:30 – 16:30 CET) the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR) will be holding its Annual Meeting online via Zoom. This year the invited legal experts will be focusing on the theme of adaptability of (private) international law to the digital environment. 
The 
A free webinar on Force Majeure and Hardship 
Triggered by recent events, notably the 
The proceedings of the symposium held in June 2019 on the 
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On 28 February 2020 the Queen Mary University of London will host the first of four public AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) workshops on Private International Law after Brexit.
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, and a Model for incorporating mediation into child abduction proceedings.
The fourth edition of the 