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• Chinese court refuses enforcement of an IFTA Arbitration award

  Shawn He reported recently on a Chinese judgment refusing the declaration of enforceability of an arbitral award issued by the Independent Film & Television Alliance Arbitration Court. The Tianjin Intermediate People’s Court dismissed the application on two grounds: No standing… Read more…

  Posted by Apostolos Anthimos | Published on August 6, 2020

• Job Offer at the University of Bayreuth

  by Professor Dr Robert Magnus The chair of civil law III at the Faculty of law and economics of the University of Bayreuth offers a position as a Doctoral researcher / PhD Student (m/w/d) which should be filled as soon… Read more…

  Posted by Matthias Weller | Published on August 5, 2020

• Marshall Islands: A Pacific island-country joins the HCCH Service Convention (updated)

  On 31 July 2020, the Depositary (i.e. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) notified that the Marshall Islands acceded to the HCCH Service Convention. A six-month period for filing objections has been set to run… Read more…

  Posted by Mayela Celis | Published on August 2, 2020

• Nagy on collective actions in EU

  Recently published paper The Reception of Collective Actions in Europe: Reconstructing the Mental Process of a Legal Transplantation, authored by Csongor István Nagy, Professor at the University of Szeged, is a must read for those studying collective actions in EU.… Read more…

  Posted by Ivana Kunda | Published on July 31, 2020

• New text: The Conflict of Laws in New Zealand

  Readers of this blog may be interested to hear of a new textbook on private international law, recently published by LexisNexis. The Conflict of Laws in New Zealand is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject from a New Zealand perspective. Drawing… Read more…

  Posted by Maria Hook | Published on July 30, 2020

• Political Agreement on the Reform of the Evidence and the Service Regulation

  After years of discussion the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have finally reached agreement on the reform of the Evidence and the Service Regulation. The new rules aim to improve the cross-border taking of evidence as… Read more…

  Posted by Giesela Ruehl | Published on July 30, 2020

• CJEU on the deceased’s habitual residence

  Written by Vito Bumbaca, University of Geneva On 16 July the CJEU issued its preliminary ruling in case E.E. & K.-D. E. (CJEU, C-80/19, ECLI:EU:C:2020:569, not yet available in English). The case concerned, inter alia, the assessment of the deceased’s… Read more…

  Posted by Thalia Kruger | Published on July 30, 2020

• Soft launch of the Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

  In January 2018, we reported on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia, a publication by the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI). The sequel to this publication, the Asian Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments,… Read more…

  Posted by Adeline Chong | Published on July 30, 2020

• postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute

  For the earliest possible starting date, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and Private International Law in Hamburg  is offering up to two positions as a Research Fellow (m/f/d) (post-doctoral or Habilitation) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ralf… Read more…

  Posted by Ralf Michaels | Published on July 28, 2020

• New conflict of laws rule for minimum wages in road transport: UPDATE

  Written by Fieke van Overbeeke, Legal Counsel at the International Institute for International and Foreign Law  - the Netherlands and research fellow at the University of Antwerp – Belgium On 10 June conflictoflaws.net posted a piece about ‘new conflict of… Read more…

  Posted by Thalia Kruger | Published on July 28, 2020