Category: Articles

Anabela Susana de Sousa Gonçalves (University of Minho) has posted The material limits of the European Succession Regulation on SSRN.Continue Reading

The author of this post is Chukwuma Okoli, Assistant Professor in Commercial Conflict of Laws at the University of Birmingham,Continue Reading

Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School) has published the lecture that she gave as the 18th Rabel Lecture inContinue Reading

Florence Guillaume (Professor of Private International Law at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and Founder of the LexTech Institute) hasContinue Reading

Joseph Singer (Harvard Law School) has posted Conflict of Abortion Laws on SSRN. The abstract reads: When a resident of an anti-abortionContinue Reading

Lawrence Collins (UCL, former Justice of the UK Supreme Court) has posted Reflections on the Law Governing Confidentiality in ArbitrationContinue Reading

Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna) has made available on SSRN a new paper with the title Who Owns Bitcoin? PrivateContinue Reading

Luís de Lima Pinheiro (University of Lisbon) has posted Laws Applicable to International Smart Contracts and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOS)Continue Reading

Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv University) and Sagi Peari (University of Western Australia) have posted on Choice of Law Meets PrivateContinue Reading

Ralf Michaels (Max Planck Institute Hamburg) has posted Private International Law and the Legal Pluriverse on SSRN. The abstract reads:Continue Reading

Tobias Lutzi (Junior Professor for Private Law at the University of Augsburg) made available on SSRN a pre-print short contributionContinue Reading

Marco Biasi (Università degli Studi di Milano) has published Decent Work and the Virtual Dimension: Reflections about the Regulation ofContinue Reading

Nikitas Hatzimihail (University of Cyprus) has published on SSRN an article titled Private International Law Matters involving Non-Recognized States: TheContinue Reading

Burcu Yüksel Ripley (University of Aberdeen) has posted on SSRN a paper titled Cryptocurrency Transfers in Distributed Ledger Technology-Based SystemsContinue Reading

Uglješa Grušić has published on SSRN a policy brief titled Remote working and European private international law. The brief was preparedContinue Reading

Aukje A.H. Van Hoek (University of Amsterdam) has posted The Declaratory Judgment – Between Remedy and Procedural Technique on SSRN.Continue Reading

Michiel Poesen has published an interesting article in the Common Market Law Review (issue 6 of 2022), titled Civil LitigationContinue Reading

Symeon Symeonides (Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law at Willamette University – College of Law) has made available onContinue Reading

Symeon Symeonides (Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law at Willamette University – College of Law) has made available onContinue Reading

Luís de Lima Pinheiro (University of Lisbon) has posted The Spatial Reach of Injunctions for Privacy and Personal Data ProtectionContinue Reading

Georgina Garriga Suau and Christopher Whytock have recently published a paper on SSRN, entitled “Choice of Law for Immovable PropertyContinue Reading

Florence Guillaume and Swen Riva (University of Neuchatel) have posted Blockchain Dispute Resolution for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: The Rise ofContinue Reading

GRUR International (Journal of European and International IP Law) has recently published an article by Pedro De Miguel Asensio titledContinue Reading

Alex Mills (University College London) published a working paper on the role of territoriality in Private International Law. This isContinue Reading

Stephan Madaus (Professor at Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg) has made available on SSRN an interesting paper under the title The Cross-BorderContinue Reading

Guido Westkamp (Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute) has posted In it for the Money? Academic Publishing, Open Access andContinue Reading

Christopher A. Whytock (University of California at Irvine School of law) has posted Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts: A Theoretical andContinue Reading

Toni Marzal and George Pavlakos (both from University of Glasgow) posted recently on SSRN their article titled A Relations-First ApproachContinue Reading

Ansgar Ohly (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) wrote an interesting article addressing matters of jurisdiction and choice of law in tradeContinue Reading

Francesco Parisi (Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, Law School and a Professor of Economics at the UniversityContinue Reading

The new issue of International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 71, Issue 1) is out. Some of articles concern directly or indirectlyContinue Reading

Samuel P. Baumgartner (University of Zürich) and Christopher A. Whytock (University of Irvine) have posted Enforcement of Judgments, Systematic Calibration,Continue Reading

Daria Levina (European University Institute) posted on SSRN a paper titled The Law Governing Enforceability of Forum Selection Agreements. TheContinue Reading

Antonio Leandro (University of Bari) has posted Asset Tracing and Recovery in European Cross-border Insolvency Proceedings on SSRN. Tracing and recoveringContinue Reading

John F. Coyle from the University of North Carolina has published on SSRN an article titled The Mystery of theContinue Reading

Koji Takahashi from Doshisha University Law School published on SSRN an article titled Blockchain-based Negotiable Instruments (with Particular Reference toContinue Reading

Daniel B. Listwa (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and Lea Brilmayer (Yale Law School) have posted Jurisdictional Problems, Comity Solutions: Lessons forContinue Reading

This post introduces the paper by Fernando Gascón and Guillermo Schumann published in Ius Dictum, 5, 2021, The rules on lis pendens andContinue Reading

Marketa Trimble (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law) has posted The Public Policy Exception and International IntellectualContinue Reading

Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law; University of Urbino) has posted Three Patterns, One Law – Plea for a ReinterpretationContinue Reading

Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna) has posted National Blockchain Laws as a Threat to Capital Markets Integration on SSRN. The paper,Continue Reading

Monika Zalnieriute (University of New South Wales) has posted Data Transfers after Schrems II: The EU-US Disagreements Over Data PrivacyContinue Reading

The latest edition of the Spanish journal La Ley (No 90 March 2021) contains an interesting article about the contractContinue Reading

Juan J. Garcia-Blesa (Fern University) has posted Indeterminacy, Ideology and Legitimacy in International Investment Arbitration: Controlling International Private Networks of Legal Governance? on SSRN.Continue Reading

Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, University of Urbino) has posted Protecting Digital Platform Users by Means of Private International LawContinue Reading

Kurt Siehr (formerly MPI Hamburg) has posted Mandatory Rules of Third States: from Ole Lando to Contemporary European Private International Law onContinue Reading

Melissa Durkee (University of Georgia School of Law) has posted Interpretive Entrepreneurs on SSRN. The abstract reads: Private actors interpret legalContinue Reading

Tamás Szabados (Eötvös Loránd University) published Constitutional identity and judicial cooperation in civil matters in the European Union – AnContinue Reading

Irit Mevorach (Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham and Co-Director of the University of Nottingham CommercialContinue Reading

Mateusz Grochowski (European University Institute) and Katarzyna Południak-Gierz (Jagiellonian University) have posted EU Private International Law in Internet-Related Disputes: The Polish Case LawContinue Reading

Marta Pertegás (Maastricht University) has posted The 2019 Judgments Convention: the Road Ahead on SSRN. The abstract reads: In TheContinue Reading

Tamás Szabados (Eötvös Loránd University) published In Search of the Holy Grail of the Conflict of Laws of Cultural Property: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

Giancarlo Frosio (University of Strasbourg) has posted Enforcement of European Rights on a Global Scale on SSRN. The abstract reads:Continue Reading

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (University College London & European Corporate Governance Institute – ECGI), Federico M. Mucciarelli (Università degli studi di ModenaContinue Reading

John Coyle (University of North Carolina) has posted Cruise Contracts, Public Policy, and Foreign Forum Selection Clauses on SSRN. TheContinue 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

Stephen Park (University of Connecticut School of Business) and Tim Samples (University of Georgia School of Business) have posted Distrust,Continue Reading

Mark C. Weidemaier (University of North Carolina School Law) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke Law School) have posted Unlawfully-Issued SovereignContinue Reading

Franco Ferrari (New York University Law School) has posted A New Paradigm for International Uniform Substantive Law Conventions on SSRN. TheContinue Reading

Csongor István Nagy (University of Szeged), has posted on SSRN a paper titled The Reception of Collective Actions in Europe:Continue Reading

Apostolos Anthimos has posted on SSRN a paper titled Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the Field of BilateralContinue Reading

Carlos Manuel Vazquez (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Extraterritoriality as Choice of Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: The properContinue Reading

Toni Marzal (University of Glasgow) has posted From World Actor to Local Community: Territoriality and the Scope of Application ofContinue Reading

William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) and Wenliang Zhang (Renmin University of China) have posted Reciprocity in China-U.S. JudgmentsContinue Reading

Aaron D. Simowitz (Willamette University College of Law) has posted Convergence and the Circulation of Money Judgments on SSRN. The abstractContinue Reading

Christopher Marsden (University of Sussex) has posted Transnational Internet Law on SSRN. The greatest, and certainly to a Westphalian nation-state-centeredContinue Reading

William S. Dodge has posted Jurisdiction, State Immunity, and Judgments in the Restatement (Fourth) of US Foreign Relation Law onContinue 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

Professor (and co-editor of this blog) Gilles Cuniberti has published a new article on SSRN, entitled Signalling the Enforceability ofContinue 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

Giesela Rühl (University of Jena) has posted Smart (Legal) Contracts, or: Which (Contract) Law for Smart Contracts? on SSRN. TheContinue Reading

William S. Dodge (University of California, Davis) has published The New Presumption against Extraterritoriality in the Harvard Law Review. CanonsContinue Reading

Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Sabine Gless (University of Basel), Chris Thomale (Ruprecht-KarlsContinue Reading

Luis de Lima Pinheiro (university of Lisbon) has posted Public Policy and Private International Law – Portugal on SSRN. TheContinue Reading

Symeon Symeonides posted on SSRN the Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases for 2019, now in its 33rd year. ThisContinue Reading

Symeon Symeonides compiled a bibliography, available on SSRN, of books and articles in English in the field of private internationalContinue Reading