The University of Luxembourg is seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher with a strong interest in international and comparative civil procedure.
Interested candidates should contact me by mid June at gilles.cuniberti@uni.lu.
The University of Luxembourg is seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher with a strong interest in international and comparative civil procedure.
Interested candidates should contact me by mid June at gilles.cuniberti@uni.lu.
Now available online: RabelsZ, Issue 2/2020
The second 2020 issue of RabelsZ is now available online. It features two essays as well as the contributions to a Symposium on career paths into legal academia held at the Max Institute in June 2019: Lord Hodge, The Scope of… Read more…
Posted by Giesela Ruehl | Published on April 8, 2020
The VW NOx Emissions Group Litigation, [2019] EWHC 783(QB), and (some aspects of) CoL
Yesterday, the High Court of London decided two preliminary issues in a large group action, certified as a Group Litigation Order (sub no. 105), brought by about 91,000 owners or lessees of VW, Audi, Skoda and SEAT cars. The claim… Read more…
Posted by Matthias Weller | Published on April 7, 2020
Dear CoL Readers, You will have experienced a few irregularities during the last week: Some posts had disappeared for a few days and were then re-posted and, as such, sent out again. This was due to the transfer of CoL… Read more…
Posted by Matthias Weller | Published on April 7, 2020
Webinar on COVID-19 and international child abduction
A free webinar to hear experts of MK Family Law (Washington) and Grotius Chambers (The Hague) discuss pertinent issues relating to international child abduction in times of COVID-19. Date: 8 April 2020 Time: 3 pm (CET Amsterdam) COVID-19 has a… Read more…
Posted by Thomas John | Published on April 6, 2020
A Textbook Example of Art 17 Rome II: Higher Regional Court of Cologne, 27 March 2020
Art. 17 of the Rome II Regulation, which transposes an element of US conflicts theory (the concept of local data) into a European choice-of-law instrument, is certainly one of the more controversial provisions of the Regulation. It stipulates that [i]n… Read more…
Posted by Tobias Lutzi | Published on April 5, 2020
In this case, a Czech passenger entered into a package travel contract with a Czech travel agency on a flight from Prague to Keflavik in Iceland and on accommodation there. The flight was operated by the Danish air carrier Primera… Read more…
Posted by Matthias Weller | Published on April 5, 2020
A New Interesting Book on PIL Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility
A book edited by Catherine Kessedjian & Humberto Cantú Rivera and titled "Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility" has just been released electronically and in hard copy. As said in the abstract of the book, "This book addresses… Read more…
Posted by Guangjian Tu | Published on April 5, 2020
Hague Academy Postpones Summer Courses 2020
The Hague Academy has canceled its summer courses for 2020 and will hold them in the summer of 2021. The announcement, including a video message from the Secretary-General, is here. Moving the program online was rejected because students would not… Read more…
Posted by Ralf Michaels | Published on April 2, 2020
In his today’s Opinion, Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe addresses the question that has recently inspired much debate, already reported to our readers this January by Rishi Gulati. At point 5, the Opinion clarifies that – at the request of the… Read more…
Posted by Krzysztof Pacula | Published on April 2, 2020
A non-profit consumer protection association established in Austria is bringing an action before the Austrian courts against a motor vehicle manufacturer with its registered office in Germany. The association asserts claims for damages, assigned to it by the purchasers of… Read more…
Posted by Krzysztof Pacula | Published on April 2, 2020
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