The blog of the European Association of Private International Law hosts news on the Association and on private international law, generally. Read the posts here.
About the blog
Apart from providing news on the European Association of Private International Law and its activities, the EAPIL blog reports on developments relating to private international law that are of interest for the European Union and European States, generally, whether they concern normative texts, case law or scholarship. Scientific events, call for papers and similar initiatives relating to private international law are regularly announced. Key developments concerning non-European States are also covered.
The editors
The current editors of the blog are Apostolos Anthimos, Caterina Benini, Gilles Cuniberti (who serves as the managing editor), Konrad Duden, Ugljesa Grusic, Marion Ho-Dac, Matthias Lehmann, Alina Ontanu, Marco Pasqua, Marta Requejo Isidro, Erik Sinander and Anna Wysocka-Bar. Marco Pasqua is also the blog’s (and the Association’s) social media manager. To get in touch with the editors, please write an e-mail to blog@eapil.org.
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The EAPIL blog archive
All posts published since the launch of the EAPIL blog in 2019 can be found here. The website’s search engine (see the magnifying lens icon on the menu bar above) allows for searches in both the site’s static pages and the posts. Over the years, the blog has hosted several “on-line symposia”, i.e., series of posts devoted to recent rulings or other significant topics.
Past on-line symposia are listed below, with a link to the respective inaugural post which includes, in turn, links to other contributions in the series:
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Apple Nederland Store, 18 December 2025
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the ruling of the Court of Justice in Cupriak-Trojan, 8 December 2025
- the English Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on digital assets / ETDs and private international law, 5 November 2025
- the book of Ekaterina Aristova, Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts, Oxford University Press 2024
- the ruling of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30, 18 September 2024
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Air Berlin, 18 April 2024
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Inkreal, 26 February 2024
- the law governing arbitration agreements, 7 September 2023
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in London Steam-Ship, 23 June 2022
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Hrvatske Šume, 10 January 2022
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Effectenbezitters, 21 May 2021
- the implications of Brexit for the 1968 Brussels Convention, 12 February 2021
- the ruling of the Court of Justice in Wikingerhof, 7 December 2020.