Category: Books

A book by Alexander DJ Critchley, titled The Application of Foreign Law in the British and German Courts, has beenContinue Reading

Pablo Quinzá Redondo, Lecturer of Private International Law at the University of Valencia, is the author of this monograph publishedContinue Reading

Two relatively new Scandinavian free online law library projects ease the accessibility of older legal writings, which opens new possibilitiesContinue Reading

The Commentary on the Brussels II ter Regulation, edited by Ulrich Magnus and the late Peter Mankowski, part of theContinue Reading

El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea y el Derecho Internacional Privado (The Court of Justice of the EuropeanContinue Reading

The new edition of the Commentary on the Brussels I bis Regulation, edited by Ulrich Magnus and the late PeterContinue Reading

As the Matrimonial Property Regimes Regulation and the Property Regimes of Registered Partnerships have celebrated their fourth anniversary of application recently (namelyContinue Reading

The number of States which, pressed by the need to relieve and speed up the work of the courts, haveContinue Reading

Morten Midtgaard Fogt (Aarhus University, Denmark) has had a book titled Choices, Limits and Consequences of Harmonisation of Commercial Law published.Continue Reading

Asif Efrat (Reichman University, Israel) authored a book titled Intolerant Justice – Conflict and Cooperation on Transnational Litigation, with Oxford UniversityContinue Reading

The rules on negotorium gestio in Article 11 Rome II Regulation have received little attention so far and are rarelyContinue Reading

La sustracción internacional de menores en el espacio jurídico europeo (International Child Abduction in the European Union), a monograh by PILContinue Reading

Ronán Feehily authored International Commercial Mediation – Law and Regulation in Comparative Context, recently published by Cambridge University Press. InContinue Reading

Naivi Chikoc Barreda (University of Ottawa) authored a book titled Succession internationale et dispositions spéciales de la lex rei sitae – ContributionContinue Reading

Nazia Yaqub (Leeds Beckett University, UK) authored a book titled Parental Child Abduction to Islamic Law Countries – A Child RightsContinue Reading

The proceedings of the Conference on the Notary’s Role in Private International Law (L’office du notaire en droit international privé)Continue Reading

Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Adam Mickiewicz, Giorgio Fabio Colombo, and Joshua Karton have edited a collection of essays titledContinue Reading

The third edition of Talia Einhorn’s textbook on Private International Law in Israel is out, published by Wolters Kluwer. ThisContinue Reading

The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration – A Commentary, authored by Gilles Cuniberti, has just been published byContinue Reading

Filip Šaranović (Queen Mary University of London) is the author of Freezing Injunctions in Private International Law, recently published byContinue Reading

Jonathan Harris and Campbell McLachlan are the editors of Essays in International Litigation for Lord Collins (OUP, 2022). As itsContinue Reading

Sierd J. Schaafsma (Justice of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands) is the author of Intellectual Property in the ConflictContinue Reading

José Angelo Estrella Faria (UNCITRAL) has published his Hague Lectures on the protection of religious cultural property in public internationalContinue Reading

Priskila Pratita Penasthika (Assistant Professor in Private International Law at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia) has just published herContinue Reading

A collection of essays in honour of Haimo Schack (Ius Vivum: Kunst – Internationales – Persönlichkeit: Festschrift für Haimo Schack zum 70. Geburtstag)Continue Reading

A monograph titled Cross-Border Recognition of Formalized Same-Sex Relationships. The role of ordre public, written by Laima Vaige, a senior lecturerContinue Reading

Olaf Meyer (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences) edited a book titled Public Policy and Private International Law – A ComparativeContinue Reading

Cross-Border Litigation in Central Europe – EU Private International Law Before National Court, is the tile of a collection of essays,Continue Reading

A book titled Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction. The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings edited by Katarina Trimmings,Continue Reading

Oxford University Press has recently published the secondo edition of European Cross-Border Insolvency Law, by Reinhard Bork and Renato Mangano. The blurbContinue Reading

Professor Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg has retired after having been professor in private international law at Uppsala University in Sweden for 23Continue Reading

Elena D’Alessandro and Fernando Gascón Inchausti are the editors of The European Account Preservation Order – A Commentary on Regulation (EU)Continue Reading

Michael Karayanni (Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) published the special course heContinue Reading

Matthias Weller (University of Bonn) has published the special course that he gave at the Hague Academy in Volume 423Continue Reading

Edward Elgar has recently published the second edition of Gilles Cuniberti’s Conflict of Law – A Comparative Approach. Now inContinue Reading

In his PhD thesis Normen als tatsächliche Umstände (Rules as factual circumstances), published in 2021, Alexander Kronenberg analysis how overriding mandatory provisionsContinue Reading

Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca (University Carlos III of Madrid) and Javier Carrascosa González (University of Murcia), together with the other authorsContinue Reading

Paul Beaumont and Jayne Holliday have edited A Guide to Global Private International Law. The book has just been published by Hart /Continue Reading

A new book on civil enforcement entitled Civil Enforcement in a Comparative Perspective by Wendy Kennett (Senior Lecturer in Law atContinue Reading

This post was contributed by Yuliya Chernykh, who is associate professor in law at the Inland Norway University of AppliedContinue Reading

Cedric Hornung has published an inspiring book , titled Internationales Privatrecht zwischen Wertneutralität und Politik (Mohr Siebeck, 2021), about a fundamental tension underlyingContinue Reading

Guillaume Laganière – Professor of Law at the Université du Québec à Montréal – has recently published a monograph (basedContinue Reading

This post was contributed by Guillaume Payan, who is Law Professor at the University of Toulon. Under the direction ofContinue Reading

Stefan Grundmann (Professor of Transnational Law and Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and Professor of Private and BusinessContinue Reading

Shuai Guo (China University of Political Science and Law of Beijing) authored a book titled Recognition of Foreign Bank Resolution Actions,Continue Reading

Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg) and Sara Migliorini (University of Macau) have published a commentary in French on Regulation 655/2014Continue Reading

Marc Schmitz, President of the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ) and Patrick Gielen, Chairman of the joint appointment commissionsContinue Reading

Giovanni Zarra (University of Naples) authored a book titled Imperativeness in Private International Law – A View from Europe, with Springer/T.M.C.Continue Reading

Ralf Michaels, Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Hans van Loon have edited The Private Side of Transforming our World – UNContinue Reading

Kazuaki Nishioka (visiting Research Fellow at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich) and Yuko Nishitani (Professor of InternationalContinue Reading

The new edition of the Commentary on EU-Zivilprozessrecht: EuZPR authored by Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Schlosser, Emeritus at the LudwigContinue Reading

Magdalena Pfeiffer, Jan Brodec, Petr Bříza and Marta Zavadilová have edited a collection of essays in honour of professor MonikaContinue Reading

Pilar Jimenez Blanco (University of Oviedo) has published a monograph on cross border matrimonial property regimes (Regímenes Económicos Matrimoniales Transfronterizos).Continue Reading

Volume 415 of the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law published with Brill is dedicated to Mr.Continue Reading

Routledge published a new book by Johanna Hoekstra (lecturer in Law at the University of Essex, UK) on non-state rulesContinue Reading

I am delighted to announce the publication of the last edition of the Code de droit international privé luxembourgeois. TheContinue Reading

The proceedings of the conferences held under the aegis of the French Committee of Private International Law for the periodContinue Reading

The forth edition of Prof. Dan Jerker B. Svantesson’s book on Private International Law and the Internet is being publishedContinue Reading

Jens M. Scherpe and Elena Bargelli are the editors of a collection of essays titled The Interaction between Family Law, SuccessionContinue Reading

Andrew Dickinson and Edwin Peel are the editors of A Conflict of Laws Companion – Essays in Honour of AdrianContinue Reading

Ilya Kokorin (PhD Researcher at Leiden University) and Bob Wessels (Professor Emeritus of International Insolvency Law at Leiden University andContinue Reading

Malik Laazouzi (Paris II University) is the editor of a new book on choice of court agreements (Les clauses attributivesContinue Reading

Ludovic Pailler (University of Lyon 3)  has just published a monograph on respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of theContinue Reading

Jan von Hein and Thalia Kruger are the editors of a new volume published with Intersentia on Informed Choices inContinue Reading

José R. Mata Dona (Independent Practitioner and Member of the Brussels and Caracas Bars) and Nikos Lavranos (Guest Professor atContinue Reading

Daniel Girsberger, Thomas Kadner Graziano and Jan L. Neels are the editors of Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts,Continue Reading

The public policy exception is used as a shield to protect fundamental domestic values in case of a contradiction betweenContinue Reading

As announced in this blog (here), Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (University of Côte d’Azur and French University Institute) has just published a monographContinue Reading

Laura Carpaneto, Stefano Dominelli and Chiara Enrica Tuo (all University of Genova) have edited Brussels I bis Regulation and SpecialContinue Reading

Andrea Bonomi and Patrick Wautelet have authored an article-by-article commentary, in French, of Regulations 2016/1103 and 2016/1104 on the propertyContinue Reading

Gustavo Cerqueira and Nicolas Nord have edited a collection of essays, mostly in French, on the ascertainment of foreign law,Continue Reading

Cecilia Rizcallah (ULB & University of Saint-Louis, Belgium) has just published a monograph on the principle of mutual trust inContinue Reading

Horatia Muir Watt, Lucia Biziková, Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Diego P. Fernández Arroyo and Megan Ma (Sciences Po Law School)Continue Reading

Private International Law in Poland has been recently released by Wolters Kluwer. The monograph is written by Ewa Kamarad andContinue Reading

Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg) has published the second edition of his treatise on European Civil Procedural Law (EuropäischesContinue Reading

Noëmie Reichling (PhD, Avocat à la Cour, France) has just published a monograph on Fundamental Principles of Civil Litigation inContinue Reading

Cedric Ryngaert, Professor of Public International Law at the Utrecht University, has kindly accepted to provide a presentation of hisContinue Reading

Massimo Benedettelli (University of Bari) is the author of International Arbitration in Italy, which has just been published by WoltersContinue Reading

The course Party Autonomy in International Family Law given by Cristina González Beilfuss at the Hague Academy of International Law inContinue 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

A book titled International Commercial Arbitration in the European Union, by Chukwudi Ojiegbe, has recently been published by Edward Elgar.Continue Reading

Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) is the editor of a new book offering commentaries of the most important ofContinue Reading

The Multiple Uses of the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts: Theory and Practice is the title of a bookContinue Reading

Tobias Lutzi (University of Cologne) is the author of Private International Law Online – Internet Regulation and Civil Liability in theContinue Reading

Emmanuel Guinchard (Northumbria University) edited Rome I and Rome II in Practice, just published by Intersentia. The publisher’s blurb readsContinue 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

In May 2019 a seminar took place in Madrid on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of UNIDROIT. A bookContinue Reading

A collection of essays edited by Florian Heindler (Sigmund Freud University, Vienna) has recently been published by Jan Sramek Verlag,Continue Reading

A new commentary on the Brussels I bis Regulation, in Greek, has recently been published. The book is edited byContinue Reading

Ilaria Viarengo and Francesca Villata (both University of Milan) have edited Planning the Future of Cross Border Families – A PathContinue Reading

Serena Forlati (University of Ferrara) and Pietro Franzina (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) are the editors of aContinue Reading

Hélène Péroz (University of Nantes) has edited a commentary of Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 of 6 July 2016 on promoting the freeContinue Reading

Guillaume Payan (University of Toulon, France) edited a Compendium of the Hague Conventions and Protocols enriched by case law from Belgian,Continue Reading

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

Ioannis Revolidis, a lecturer at the University of Malta and a visiting lecturer at the Frederick University Cyprus, has recentlyContinue 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

Vesna Rijavec, Katja Drnovsek, C.H. van Rhee have edited Cross-border enforcement in Europe: national and international perspectives, published by Intersentia. TheContinue Reading

Rebecca Legendre (University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas) has just published a monograph on fundamental rights and private international Law basedContinue Reading

Woo-jung Jon is the author of Cross-border Transfer and Collateralisation of Receivables – A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Legal Systems, publishedContinue Reading

Kamalia Mehtiyeva (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne School of Law) has just published a monograph on the Concept of Judicial Cooperation basedContinue 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

Iacyr de Aguilar Vieira and Gustavo Cerqueira have edited a volume on the CISG in the Americas (La Convention deContinue Reading

Jean-Sylvestre Bergé and Giulio Cesare Giorgini have edited Le sens des libertés économiques de circulation – The sense of economic freedomsContinue Reading

Cambridge University Press has just published the second edition of the Concise Commentary on the Rome I Regulation edited byContinue Reading

Maud Minois (University Paris Descartes) has published earlier this year a monograph presenting her Research on Characterization in the PrivateContinue Reading

Fernando Gascón Inchausti (Complutense University of Madrid) and Burkhard Hess (MPI Luxembourg) have edited The Future of the European LawContinue Reading

Jayne Holliday has written Clawback Law in the Context of Succession. The book is part of the Studies in PrivateContinue Reading

Catherine Kessedjian (Emeritus Paris II University) and Valérie Pironon (University of Nantes) have published the second edition of Catherine Kessedjian’sContinue 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

Tamás Szabados (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) is the author of Economic Sanctions in EU Private International Law, a bookContinue 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

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

María Asunción Cebrián Salvat and Isabel Lorente Martínez (both from the University of Murcia) have edited a collection of essaysContinue Reading

Springer has recently published a new volume on Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility in the series Ius ComparatumContinue 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

Luk De Baere and Frits Blees are the authors of Insurance Aspects of Cross-Border Road Traffic Accidents, published by ElevenContinue Reading

The general course that Catherine Kessedjian (University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas) gave at the Hague Academy of InternationalContinue Reading

Christoph Schmon is the author of The Interconnection of the EU Regulations Brussels I Recast and Rome I – JurisdictionContinue Reading

Teemu Juutilainen is the author of Secured Credit in Europe – From Conflicts to Compatibility, which is about to be publishedContinue Reading

Edward Elgar Publishing has just launched a book series devoted to private international law. The first book in the seriesContinue Reading

Dário Moura Vicente (University of Lisbon) has published the second edition of his monograph on international intellectual property (A TutelaContinue Reading

Milana Karayanidi is the author of Rethinking Judicial Jurisdiction in Private International Law, the most recent release in the HartContinue 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

Intersentia has recently published a monograph by Ayse Nihan Karadayi Yalim (University of Antwerp) on Interpretation and Gap Filling in InternationalContinue Reading

A collection of essays edited by Elisabetta Bergamini (University of Udine) and Chiara Ragni (University of Milan) has recently beenContinue Reading

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (University College London), Federico Mucciarelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Edmund-Philipp Schuster (London School of Economics) andContinue Reading