Netherlands Commercial Court: English proceedings in The Netherlands
By Friederike Henke, Advocaat & Rechtsanwältin at Buren in Amsterdam The international demand for English language dispute resolution is increasing as the English language is commonly used in...
View ArticleOut now: Issue 4 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) is now available. It contains the...
View ArticleOut now: Journal of Private International Law, Volume 14, Issue 3
Issue 14. 3 of the Journal of Private International Law has just been released. It contains the following articles: Maria Caterina Baruffi, A child-friendly area of freedom, security and justice: work...
View ArticleOut now: Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, Issue 4 (2018)
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Europäische Privatrecht has just been released. It contains the following articles: Thomas Ackermann, Sektorielles EU-Recht und allgemeine Privatrechtssystematik...
View Article4/5 December: Dispute resolution events at University of Antwerp
On 4 and 5 December 2018 the following two events will take place at the University of Antwerp: On 4 December 2018, Dilyara Nigmatullina, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, invites...
View ArticleBlockchain Networks and European Private Internationale Law
Written by Anton S. Zimmermann, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Blockchain technology and its offspring have recently attracted considerable...
View ArticleVacancy at the University of Bremen: Paid PhD-Researcher Position in Private...
The University of BremenLaw School will recruit a doctoral researcher in Private International Law (‘wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ m/w/d), part time 50 per cent, starting in early 2019, for a...
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Call for Papers: Judges in Utopia – Civil Courts as European Courts
We would like to invite young scholars to submit a paper for the upcoming conference entitled ‘Judges in Utopia: Civil Courts as European Courts’, which will take place in Amsterdam on 7 and 8 November...
View ArticleThe renaissance of the Blocking Statute
Written by Markus Lieberknecht, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Quite a literal “conflict of laws” has recently arisen when the EU...
View ArticleAfter the Romans: Private International Law Post Brexit
Written by Michael McParland, QC, 39 Essex Chambers, London On 10 December 2018 the Ministry of Justice published a draft statutory instrument with the pithy title of “The Law Applicable to Contractual...
View ArticleLuxemburg, 22 January 2019: Conference on Third-Party Effects of Assignments...
On 22 January 2019, the Arendt House (Luxembourg) will host a conference organised by The Luxembourg Association of Law Graudates of the University of Louvain (UCL) and the Law Review Le droit des...
View ArticleSweden: New rules on non-recognition of underage marriages
Written by Prof. Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Uppsala University, Sweden On 1 January 2019, new restrictions came into force in Sweden’s private international law legislation in respect of marriages...
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Out now: ZEuP 2019, Issue 1
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht has just been released. It contains the following articles (plus an interesting editorial by Heike Schweizer on the platforms as...
View ArticleThe complexity of the post Brexit era for English LLPs and foreign legal...
Written by Sophie Hunter, University of London (SOAS) In light of the turmoil in the UK Parliament since the start of 2019, the only certain thing about Brexit is that everything is uncertain. The Law...
View ArticleOut now: RabelsZ 83 (2019), Issue 1
The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It contains the following articles: Kutner, Peter, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements – The Common Law’s Jurisdiction Requirement, pp....
View ArticleConflictoflaws.net editor Ralf Michaels appointed Director of the Max Planck...
We are happy to report that one of our editors, Ralf Michaels from Duke University, has been appointed a new Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in...
View ArticleDiversity in Unity: The Succession Regulation in Hungary and Beyond –...
On Friday, 12 April 2019, the EU Justice funded project GoInEu (Governing Inheritance Statutes after the Entry into Force of EU Succession Regulation) and the Hungarian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries’...
View ArticleRegulating International Organisations: What Role for Private International Law?
Written by Dr Rishi Gulati, LSE Fellow in Law, London School of Economics; Barrister, Victorian Bar, Australia The regulation of public international organisations (IOs) has been brought into sharp...
View Article15 April: Event on “Choice of Law in International Contracts”
On 15 April 2019 eleven international publishing will host an event on “Choice of Law in International Contracts” to honor the publication of Dr Gustavo Moser’s book Rethinking Choice of Law in...
View ArticleUK Supreme Court decision in Vedanta: Finding a proper balance between...
Written by Ekaterina Aristova, PhD in Law Candidate at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working towards preparing for submission her thesis on the tort litigation against English-domiciled...
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