Entries by Giesela Ruehl

JPIL Conference: Registration now open!

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Building on the successful conferences held in Aberdeen (2005), Birmingham (2007), New York (2009), Milan (2011), Madrid (2013), Cambridge (2015) and Rio (2017) the Journal of Private International Law will be holding its

Job Vacancy at Riga Graduate School of Law

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Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) calls for applications for the following academic vacancy: Docent in Private Law with additional specialization in Private International Law or International Commercial Law or Comparative Contract Law, for election term of 6 years. Requirements for applicants: Compliance with the requirements of the Regulations on Academic and Administrative Personnel Positions […]

14 June 2019: Symposium on the Attractiveness of the Paris International Commercial Chambers

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The Paris Court of Appeal will host a symposium on “L’attractivité de la place de Paris: Les chambres commerciales internationales: fonctionnement et trajectoire” (The attractiveness of Paris’s jurisdiction. The international Commercial Chambers: functioning and future trends) on June 14, 2019 (2pm-6pm).   Readers of this blog will remember that on February 7, 2018, the International Commercial Chamberof the Paris Court […]

Rethinking Choice of Law and International Arbitration in Cross-border Commercial Contracts

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Written by Gustavo Becker*   During the 26th Willem C. Vis Moot, Dr. Gustavo Moser, counsel at the London Court of International Arbitration and Ph.D. in international commercial law from the University of Basel, coordinated the organization of a seminar regarding choice of law in international contracts and international arbitration. The seminar’s topics revolved around Dr. Moser’s […]

29 May: Forum Conveniens Annual Lecture at the University of Edinburgh

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This year’s Forum Conveniens Annual Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be held on Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 5.30 – 7 pm. The speaker is Prof. Marta Pertegás Sender, Maastricht University/ University of Antwerp , on the topic: “A New Judgments Convention in Times of Decaying Multilateralism?”. The venue is Raeburn Room, Old College, South Bridge, […]

Patience is a virtue – The third party effects of assignments in European Private International Law

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Written by Leonhard Huebner, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg University) The third-party effects of the assignment are one of the “most discussed questions of international contract law” as it concerns the “most important gap of the Rome I Regulation”. This gap is regrettable not only for dogmatic reasons, […]

Out now: RabelsZ 83 (2019), Issue 2

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The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It focuses on “legal methodology” and contains the following articles: Reinhard Zimmermann, Reinhard, Juristische Methodenlehre in Deutschland (Legal Methodology in Germany), pp. 241 et seq The existence of a method, and thus also of a methodology, is very widely regarded as essential for an academic discipline. […]