German Federal Labor Court refers Questions relating to Art. 9 and 28 Rome I...
On February 25, the German Federal Labor Court referred three questions relating to the interpretation of Art. 9 and 28 Rome I Regulation to the CJEU. They relate to the temporal scope of application...
View ArticleLatest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 79 No 2 (2015)
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has recently been released. It...
View Article2nd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture and Kosmos-Dialogue
On June 1, 2015, the Yale – Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture will be held for the second time at Humboldt-University Berlin. In this annual lecture series, up to three scholars from Yale Law School and...
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Dicke on Capital Market related Transactions with Consumers under the Rome I...
Andrea Isabell Dicke, attorney at law in Berlin, has authored a book on capital market related financial transactions with consumers under the Rome I Regulation (“Kapitalmarktgeschäfte mit Verbrauchern...
View ArticleLatest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 79 No 3 (2015)
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has recently been released. It...
View ArticleFestschrift for Dagmar Coester-Waltjen
The publishing house Gieseking has recently released the “Festschrift für Dagmar Coester-Waltjen” (for more information see the publisher’s website). Edited by Katharina Hilbig-Lugani, Dominique Jakob,...
View ArticleGedächtnisschrift for Hannes Unberath
The publishing house C.H. Beck has recently released the “Gedächtnisschrift für Hannes Unberath”. Edited by Stefan Arnold and Stephan Lorenz the volume contains, among others, four German language...
View ArticleEuropean Succession Regulation in Force
On 17 August 2015 the European Succession Regulation has entered into force. It provides for uniform rules on the applicable law as well as recognition and enforcement of decisions in matters of...
View ArticleRequest for preliminary ruling on Art. 5 No. 1 Brussels I Regulation
On 18 August 2015, the German Federal Supreme Court referred the following questions relating to the interpretation of Article 5 No. 1 of the Brussels I Regulation to the CJEU (my translation): 1. Must...
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Now available: New edition of Volumes 10 and 11 of the „Münchener Kommentar“...
It has not yet been mentioned on this blog that Volumes 10 and 11 of the Munich Commentary on the German Civil Code (Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch), are now available in their sixth...
View ArticleDuden on Surrogate Motherhood in Private International Law and the Law of...
Konrad Duden from the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg has authored a book (in German) on surrogate motherhood in private international law and the law of international civil procedure...
View ArticleDeren on Expropriation in Private International Law
Deniz Halil Deren has authored a book (in German) on expropriation in private international law (“Internationales Enteignungsrecht – Kollisionsrechtliche Grundlagen und Investitionsschutzfragen”)....
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Out now: Commentary on the EU Succession Regulation
Ulf Bergquist, Domenico Damascelli, Richard Frimston, Paul Lagarde, Felix Odersky and Barbara Reinhartz have written an article-by-article commentary on the new EU Succession Regulation that recently...
View ArticleLehmann on “Recognition as a Substitute for Conflict of Laws?”
Matthias Lehmann, University of Bonn, has posted ‘Recognition as a Substitute for Conflict of Laws?’, a chapter in a forthcoming book on ‘General Principles of European Private International Law’...
View ArticleOut now: RabelsZ, Vol. 79 No 4 (2015)
The new issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has just been released. It contains...
View ArticlePublic hearing on the Reform of the Brussels IIa Regulation
On 12 October 2015, the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament held a public hearing on the reform of the Brussels IIa Regulation. A video of the hearing is available here. Further...
View ArticleSave the date: Conference on the Succession Regulation on 19 November 2015
The European Commission and the Council of the Notariats of the European Union will host a joint conference on the Succession Regulation. The event will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on 19 November...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament: Legislative Resolution on the Amendment of the Small...
It has not yet been noted on this blog that the European Parliament, on 7 October 2015, adopted at first reading a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation amending Regulation (EC) No...
View ArticleSave the Date: 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture on 6 June 2016
On 6 June 2016, the 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture will take place at Humboldt-University Berlin. This year’s speaker will be Professor Richard Brooks (Yale Law School/Columbia Law School),...
View ArticleLatest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 80 No. 1 (2016)
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has just been released. It...
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