Regulating International Organisations: What Role for Private International Law?
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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
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
Out now: ZEuP 2019, Issue 1
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe 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 […]
Sweden: New rules on non-recognition of underage marriages
/1 Comment/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten 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 […]
Luxemburg, 22 January 2019: Conference on Third-Party Effects of Assignments of Claims
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn 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 […]
After the Romans: Private International Law Post Brexit
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten 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 […]
The renaissance of the Blocking Statute
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Markus Lieberknecht, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Quite a literal “conflict of laws” has recently arisen when the EU reactivated its Blocking Statute in an attempt to deflect the effects of U.S. embargo provisions against Iran. As a result, European parties doing business with Iran are […]