About Giesela Ruehl
Giesela is a Professor of Private International Law at Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany). She has been an editor of conflictoflaws.net since 2011. From 2017 to 2019 she was general editor of the blog.
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ILA “Kyoto Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law” published with comments
April 14, 2021 in Views /by Giesela RuehlWritten by Toshiyuki Kono, Pedro de Miguel Asensio and Axel Metzger The International Law Association’s Committee on “Intellectual Property and Private International Law” has finished its work with the adoption and publication of the “Kyoto Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law”. The Guidelines are the outcome of an international cooperation of a group of 36 scholars […]
Moser and McIlwrath: Negotiating International Commercial Contracts
February 17, 2021 in News /by Giesela RuehlGustavo Moser and Michael McIlwrath have just published “Negotating International Commercial Contracts” (with Eleven publishers). More information is available on the
Digital teaching of Private International Law: Second EAPIL (Virtual) Seminar on January 27, 2021
January 19, 2021 in News /by Giesela RuehlThe European Association of Private International (EAPIL) will host its Second Virtual Seminar on 27 January 2021, 5 to 7 pm (MET). Devoted to the digital teaching of Private International Law and its challenges in Corona times, the Seminar will present tools that may help to improve the digital teaching of our discipline and discuss pervasive problems […]
Out now: RabelsZ 1/2021
January 15, 2021 in News /by Giesela RuehlIssue 1/2021 of RabelsZ is now available online! It contains the following articles: Reinhard Zimmermann (Hamburg): Zwingender Angehörigenschutz im Erbrecht - Entwicklungslinien jenseits der westeuropäischen Kodifikationen (Mandatory Family Protection in the Law of Succession), RabelsZ 85 (2021) 1–75 – DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2020-0092 Read more…
Cross-Border Families under Covid-19: Call for Papers
December 15, 2020 in News /by Giesela RuehlThe Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University will host an international socio-legal (zoom-) workshop on 22-23 June 2021 to explore the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and its regulation on cross-border families: Cross-border families (also known as transnational and globordered families) are a growing and diverse phenomenon. People around the globe create bi-national spousal […]
Brexit and Private International Law: Registration for the first EAPIL Virtual Seminar is now open
November 23, 2020 in News /by Giesela RuehlWe are glad to announce that registration for the first (Virtual) Seminar of the
Request for preliminary ruling from Bulgaria: Recognition of foreign birth certificate
November 18, 2020 in News /by Giesela RuehlThe Administrative Court of the City of Sofia, Bulgaria, has recently submitted a request for a preliminary ruling revolving around the recognition of a foreign birth certificate issued by another EU Member State (Case C-490/20): The case concerns a refusal of a municipality in Sofia to issue a Bulgarian birth certificate to a child of […]
First EAPIL (Virtual) Seminar on 11 December 2020: Brexit and Private International Law – What now?
November 4, 2020 in News /by Giesela RuehlOn 11 December 2020, from 11 am to 1 pm (MET), the
Out now: RabelsZ 4/2020
November 3, 2020 in News /by Giesela RuehlIssue 4 of RabelsZ is now available online and in print. It contains the following articles: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT, Die Frühehe im Rechtsvergleich: Praxis, Sachrecht, Kollisionsrecht (Early Marriage in Comparative Law: Practice, Substantive Law, Choice of Law), pp. 705–785 Read more…