Out now: ZEuP 2019, Issue 2
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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
Patience is a virtue – The third party effects of assignments in European Private International Law
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten 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
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe 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. […]
15 April: Event on “Choice of Law in International Contracts”
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn 15 April 2019 eleven international publishing will host an event on “Choice of Law in International Contracts” to honor the publication of Dr Gustavo Moser’s book Rethinking Choice of Law in Cross-Border Sales. The event will take place from 1 to 5 pm in the Salon Franz Josef, Hotel Regina, Rooseveltplatz 15, 1090 Vienna, […]
Regulating International Organisations: What Role for Private International Law?
/4 Comments/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Dr Rishi Gulati,
Diversity in Unity: The Succession Regulation in Hungary and Beyond – International conference and workshop on the EU Succession Regulation
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn Friday, 12 April 2019, the EU Justice funded project
Conflictoflaws.net editor Ralf Michaels appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute Hamburg
/in News/by Giesela RuehlWe are happy to report that one of our editors, Ralf Michaels from Duke University, has been appointed a new Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Succeeding Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. must. Jürgen Basedow, who retired in 2016, Ralf assumed the position part-time in January 2019 and […]
Out now: RabelsZ 83 (2019), Issue 1
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It contains the following articles: Kutner, Peter, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements – The Common Law’s Jurisdiction Requirement, pp. 1 et seq The “Dicey Rule” has been treated as canonical in England and elsewhere. However, it has changed over time, it has been based in […]
The complexity of the post Brexit era for English LLPs and foreign legal professionals in EU Member States: a French perspective
/2 Comments/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Sophie Hunter, University of London (SOAS) In light of the turmoil in the UK Parliament since the start of 2019, the only certain thing about Brexit is that everything is uncertain. The Law Society of England and Wales has