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.
On 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, […]
Written by Dr Rishi Gulati,
On Friday, 12 April 2019, the EU Justice funded project
We 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 […]
The 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 […]
Written 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
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht has just been released. It contains the following articles (plus an interesting editorial by Heike Schweizer on the platforms as “private regulators”): Francisco Garcimartín: The EU Regime on Securitisation: coordination between the regulatory framework and the conflict of law rules This article analyses the relationship between […]
Written by Prof. Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Uppsala University, Sweden On 1 January 2019, new restrictions came into force in Sweden’s private international law legislation in respect of marriages validly concluded abroad. The revised rules are found in the Act (1904:26 p. 1) on Certain International Relationships on Marriage and Guardianship, Chapter 1 § 8a, as amended by […]
On 22 January 2019, the Arendt House (Luxembourg) will host a conference organised by The Luxembourg Association of Law Graudates of the University of Louvain (UCL) and the Law Review Le droit des affaires – Het ondernemingsrecht (DAOR) on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law […]
Written by Michael McParland, QC, 39 Essex Chambers, London On 10 December 2018 the Ministry of Justice published a draft statutory instrument with the pithy title of “The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018”. This indicates the current intended changes to retained EU private international law of […]