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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.

Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Corporate responsibility in (public) international law

May 12, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Oliver Dörr, University of Osnabrück Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Corporate responsibility and private (international) law

May 10, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Giesela Rühl, University of Jena/Humboldt-University of Berlin Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of all contributions published in

Jurisdiction unbound: extraterritorial measures to ensure corporate responsibility

May 9, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Nico Krisch, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of all contributions published in

Jurisdiction for claims against transnational companies for human rights violations

May 8, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Anatol Dutta, University of Munich Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

German Society of International Law: Corporate social responsibility and international law

May 7, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

In April 2019 the

Conflict of Laws and the Internet

May 1, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Pedro de Miguel Asensio from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid has published a book on

Sharing Economy in EU Private International Law

April 29, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Edoardo Rossi has published (in Italian) a book on the Sharing Economic in EU Private International Law (“La Sharing Economy nel diritto internazionale privato europeo”). The author has kindly provided us with an abstract: In the current economic and social context new and controversial sharing practices, offering anyone the opportunity to search for or make available […]

Foreign Limitation Periods in England & Wales: Roberts v SSAFA

April 28, 2020/4 Comments/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Elijah Granet When a British woman gives birth in a German hospital staffed with British midwives on a contract from the British ministry of defence, what law applies and to what extent? This seemingly simple question took Mrs Justice Foster, in the English and Welsh High Court of Justice, 299 paragraphs to answer in […]

The Hague Convention on Child Abduction and UK Overseas Territories: VB v TR

April 14, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Elijah Granet In a recent decision of the Family Division of the English and Welsh High Court—VB v TR (Re RR)

Competition Law and COVID 19

April 9, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Sophie Hunter With more than 200 countries affected to date, the current crisis presents far reaching implications for competition law and policy on a global scale. This crisis is affecting developed and developing countries alike, especially by putting young competition authorities under a stress test of the resilience of their competition rules.  As […]

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