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.
The latest issue of RabelsZ is out. It contains the following articles: Kai-Oliver Knops: Die unionsrechtlichen Voraussetzungen des Rechtsmissbrauchseinwands – am Beispiel des Widerrufs von Verbraucherdarlehens- und Versicherungsverträgen (The Requirements of EU Law on Abuse of Law and Abuse of Rights – the Example of the Right to Withdraw from Credit Agreements and Insurance Contract), Volume 85 […]
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Written 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 […]
Gustavo Moser and Michael McIlwrath have just published “Negotating International Commercial Contracts” (with Eleven publishers). More information is available on the
The 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 […]
Issue 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…
The 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 […]
We are glad to announce that registration for the first (Virtual) Seminar of the
The 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 […]
On 11 December 2020, from 11 am to 1 pm (MET), the