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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

Trending topics in international and EU law

February 10, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Maria Caterina Baruffi (University of Verona) and Matteo Ortino (University of Verona) have edited the book «Trending topics in international and EU law: legal and economic perspectives». It collects the proceedings of the conference 

RabelsZ, Issue 1/2020

January 30, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The first 2020 issue RabelsZ has just been released. It features the following articles: Magnus, Robert, Unternehmenspersönlichkeitsrechte im digitalen Raum und Internationales Privatrecht (Corporate Personality Rights on the Internet and the Applicable Law), pp. 1 et seq Companies can defend themselves against defamatory and business-damaging statements made on the internet. German case law in this area […]

Call for applications: Postdoctoral positions at the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University, Jerusalem

January 30, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

A postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University is available for the academic year of 2020-2021. The position is part of the “Old Identities, New Times: Does the Common Legal Identity Withstand Modernity?”, a research project headed by Dr Sharon Shakargy and funded by the Israeli Science Foundation (grant 835/18). The […]

Master Programme on International Trade Law (InTradeC) at University of Milan

January 30, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The University of Milan announces the first edition of the Master Programme on International Trade Compliance Control (IntTradec) to be held in Milan at the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies, The Programme aims to train professional figures called to work within the Export Control Program, with a specific focus on International Trade Law, Private […]

‘Reasonableness’ Limits in Extraterritorial Regulation: A Public Lecture by Hannah Buxbaum at LSE, 30 January 2020

January 23, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to host a

Conference Report: Conflict of Laws 4.0 (Münster, Germany)

January 14, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Prof. Dr. Stefan Arnold, Thorben Eick and Cedric Hornung, University of Münster Digitization, Artificial Intelligence and the blockchain technology are core elements of a historic transformation of modern society. Such transformations necessarily challenge traditional legal concepts. Hitherto, the academic discourse is much more intense in the area of substantial private law than it […]

Humboldt-University Berlin: PhD positions (fellowships) for private (international) lawyers

January 14, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Graduate Programm “Dynamic Integration” at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt-University Berlin wishes to fill two PhD positions (fellowships), funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Applications from private (international) lawyers are especially welcomed. For more information see

The SHAPE v Supreme Litigation: The Interaction of Public and Private International Law Jurisdictional Rules

January 13, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Dr Rishi Gulati,

European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL)

December 11, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

We are happy to officially announce that the 

Reminder: EAPIL 2020 Conference on Private International Law in Aarhus (Denmark)

December 8, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

As noted earlier on this blog, we will celebrate the forthcoming establishment of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) at a conference to  be held at

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