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Habitual Residence in European Private International Law
Bettina Rentsch, Humboldt-University Berlin, has authored book about the concept of “habitual residence” in European private international law (Der gewöhnliche Aufenthalt im System des Europäischen...
View ArticleRegister now: How European is European Private International Law? Berlin, 2/3...
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 ArticleInternational and Comparative Law Quarterly 67 (2018), Issue 1
The most recent issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) features two articles relating to private international law: Louise Merrett, The Future Enforcement of Asymmetric...
View ArticleFifty Shades of (Facebook) Blue – ECJ Renders Decision on Consumer...
Written by Tobias Lutzi, DPhil Candidate and Stipendiary Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Yesterday, the ECJ has rendered its decision in Case C-498/16 Maximilian Schrems v Facebook Ireland...
View Article4-6 April 2018, Seville: 60 Years of The New York Convention on the...
On 4-6 April 2018 the Loyola University Andalusia in Seville (Spain) will host a conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign...
View ArticleSave the date: Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures on 15 June 2018
On 15 June 2018 Prof. Dr. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale) will host the 4th round of the Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures. The Lectures take place in the Senatssaal of Humboldt-University and...
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How European is European Private International Law? – Impressions from Berlin
Written by Tobias Lutzi, DPhil Candidate and Stipendiary Lecturer at the University of Oxford Last weekend, more than a hundred scholars of private international law followed the invitation of Jürgen...
View ArticleSave the date: Conference on Punitive Damages and European Private...
On 11 May 2018 the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law of the University of Milan will host a conference on Punitive Damages and European Private International Law: State of the Art and...
View ArticleOut now: Issue 2 of RabelsZ 82 (2018)
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 ArticleSecured Credit in Europe
Teemu Juutilainen from the University of Helsinki has just published an interesting book on “Secured Credit in Europe: From Conflicts to Compatibility” (Hart Publishing, 2018). It sets out to to...
View ArticleThe Belgian Government unveils its plan for the Brussels International...
By Guillaume Croisant (Université Libre de Bruxelles) In October 2017, as already reported in a previous post, the Belgian Government announced its intention to set up a specialised English-speaking...
View ArticleOut now: ZEuP 2018, Issue 2
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Europäische Privatrecht has just been released. It contains the following articles: Dagmar Coester-Waltjen, Die Einführung der gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe in...
View ArticleDoors open for First Hearing of International Chamber at Paris Court of Appeal
Written by Duncan Fairgrieve (BIICL;Université de Paris Dauphine) and Solenn Le Tutour (avocat, Barreau de Paris) When the French Government announced in February this year plans to launch an “English”...
View ArticleWaiting for Brexit: Open issues in the Internal Market and in the Area of...
The University of Milan-Bicocca – School of Law has issued a call for papers for the Academic Conference “Waiting for Brexit: open issues in the internal market and in the area of freedom, security and...
View ArticleThird-party effects of assignments: BIICL event on 3 July 2018
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is organising an event to be held on 3 July on the recent developments pertaining to third-party effects of assignment. Time: 16:30 – 19.00...
View Article26 June 2018: Colloquium on CJEU Achmea Judgment at the University of Amsterdam
On 26 June 2018 the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) together with the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) will host a colloquium on the CJEU’s recent Achmea judgment....
View ArticleTort Litigation against TNCs in the English Courts
Ekaterina Aristova, a PhD in Law Candidate at the University of Cambridge, has made available on SSRN her article “Tort Litigation against TNCs in the English Courts: The Challenge of Jurisdiction”....
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From the editors’ desk: Construction zone ahead
Dear readers, some of you might have noticed that we are currently working to improve conflictoflaws.net. If the site does not look the way it used to look like, that is why. We do our best to keep the...
View ArticleJob Vacancy at the University of Trier (Germany)
The Faculty of Law at the University of Trier is looking for a research fellow (Wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in)) at the Chair for Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law (Prof....
View ArticleThe “Coman” Case (C-673/16): Some Reflections from the Point of View of...
Written by Dr. iur. Baiba Rudevska (Latvia) On 5 June 2018, the ECJ rendered a judgment in the Coman case (C-673/16). For the first time the ECJ had the opportunity to rule, on the concept of ‘spouse’...
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