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Just published: RabelsZ Vol. 81 No. 2 (2017)
The second issue of Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) Vol. 81 (2017) has just been published: Wolf-Georg Ringe, Das Beschlussmängelrecht in Großbritannien...
View ArticleBrexit: EU Position Paper on Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial...
The European Commission Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU has submitted a Position Paper on Judicial Cooperation in Civil and...
View ArticleThe law applicable to agency: German legislature adopts choice of law rule
On June 11 the German legislature has adopted a new choice of law rule for the law of agency. It is largely based on a proposal of the 2nd Commission of the German Council for Private International Law...
View ArticleThe new German choice-of-law rule for agency: Improved translation
Readers of our blog will recall that we posted a translation of the new German choice-of-law rule for agency last week. That translation, however, was misleading because it referred to the law...
View ArticleSave the date! Conference on the “Europeanness” of European Private...
Over the course of the last decades the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law (including civil procedure). The resulting substantial degree...
View Article10/11 November 2017: Investment Protection, Arbitration and the Rule of Law...
Investment arbitration forms a part of the international litigation arena. And it is a subject which is legally demanding and politically explosive. The 23rd Würzburg Days of European Law (“23....
View ArticleSave the date: unalex-Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 24...
On 24 November 2017 Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwartze from the University of Innsbruck will host the final conference of the EU-project “unalex – multilingual information for the uniform interpretation of...
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Out now: Issue 3 of RabelsZ 81 (2017)
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 ArticleValencia, 8 September 2017: 4th unalex Conference on the EU Matrimonial and...
The University of Valencia (Spain) will be organising a conference on 8 September 2017 on selected issues regarding the new Regulations 2016/1103 and 2016/1104. The conference is part of the project...
View ArticleA.G. Saugmandsgaard on the recognition of private (Sharia) divorces under...
It does not happen too often that (the notion of) European Private International Law hits the front pages of the daily news. But on Friday it happened: Germany’s foremost (conservative) newspaper, the...
View ArticleCall for Papers: “60 Years of the New York Convention on the Recognition and...
On 5/6 April 2018 Dr. Ana Mercedes López Rodríguez, Ph.D. and Dr. Katia Fach Gómez, LL.M will convene a conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and...
View ArticleChild & Family Law Quarterly: Special Brexit Issue
Back in March the Child & Family Law Quarterly together with Cambridge Family Law hosted a conference on the impact of Brexit on international family law (see our previous post). Some of the...
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Conflict of Laws.net selected as one of the “Top 100 UK Law Blogs”
We are pleased to report that Conflict of Laws.net has recently been selected as one of the Top 100 UK Law Blogs on the web. As you can see here, we have been ranked 33th. We thank all our editors and...
View Article24 November: unalex-Conference at the University of Innsbruck
Readers of our blog will recall that Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwartze from the University of Innsbruck will host the final conference of the EU-project “unalex – multilingual information for the uniform...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal allows in England claims against English-based multinational...
Written by Ekaterina Aristova, PhD in Law Candidate, University of Cambridge On 14 October 2017, the London’s Court of Appeal passed its long awaited decision in Lungowe v Vedanta confirming that...
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Out now: Encyclopedia of Private International Law!
Hard to believe, but true: The Encyclopedia of Private International Law, published by Edward Elgar and edited by Jürgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute Hamburg), Franco Ferrari (NYU Law School), Pedro...
View ArticleHumboldt Consumer Law Clinic: Opening Ceremony on 15 December 2017
On Friday, 15 December 2015, the Opening Ceremony of the Humboldt Consumer Law Clinic’s fifth cycle will take place. The ceremony will focus on current developments in the law of general terms and...
View ArticleOut now: Issue 4 of RabelsZ 81 (2017)
The new issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabels Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has just been released. It contains...
View ArticleCJEU on the place of the damage under Article 7(2) of Brussels Ia as regards...
First personal impressions presented by Edina Márton, LLM, PhD (Saarbruecken) For jurisdictional purposes, the localisation of cross-border violations of personality rights under European instruments,...
View ArticleJob Vacancy: Research Assistant (50%) at the University of Bonn, Germany
Professor Dr. Nina Dethloff, Institute for German, European and International Family Law, University of Bonn, Germany, is looking for a research assistant (WissMit) on a part-time basis (50%) as of 1...
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