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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

China’s innovative Internet Courts and their use of blockchain backed evidence

May 28, 2019/1 Comment/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Sophie Hunter Since 2017, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) has established three internet courts in Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou which are major hubs for e-commerce, the internet industry and the headquarters of giant internet companies like Alibaba and Baidu. With an

Job Vacancy at Riga Graduate School of Law

May 28, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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

May 27, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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

May 17, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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

May 10, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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, […]

Out now: ZEuP 2019, Issue 2

May 9, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The latest issue of ZEuP (

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

May 6, 2019/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

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

April 30, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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. […]

UK Supreme Court decision in Vedanta: Finding a proper balance between Brussels I and the English common law rules of jurisdiction

April 24, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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15 April: Event on “Choice of Law in International Contracts”

April 12, 2019/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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, […]

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