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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
German Supreme Court refuses to enforce Polish judgment for violation of the German ordre public
/10 Comments/in Views/by Giesela RuehlIt doesn’t happen too often that a Member State refuses enforcement of a judgment rendered in another Member State for violation of the ordre public. But in a decision published yesterday exactly this happened: The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) refused to recognize and enforce a Polish judgment under the Brussels I Regulation (before […]
Consequences of Brexit for Private International Law and International Civil Procedure Law
/2 Comments/in News/by Giesela RuehlWhat are the consequences of Brexit for Private International Law and International Civil Procedure Law? In the very first monograph in German concerning the legal ramifications of Brexit, Michael Sonnentag discusses these questions (
Towards a European Commercial Court?
/2 Comments/in Views/by Giesela RuehlThe prospect of Brexit has led a number of countries on the European continent to take measures designed to make their civil justice systems more attractive for international litigants: In Germany, the so-called “Justice Initiative Frankfurt”, consisting of lawyers, judges, politicians and academics, has resulted in the creation of a special chamber for commercial matters […]
From the editors’ desk: Relaunch of conflictoflaws.net!
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlDear readers, Conflictoflaws.net has been around for 12 years by now. It has developed into one of the most relevant platforms for the exchange of information and the discussion of topics relating to conflict of laws in a broad sense. And while the world has changed a lot during the past 12 years the look […]
Out now: ZEuP, Issue 3/2018
/in News/by Giesela RuehlIssue 3 of the
London, 6/7 September 2018: Environmental Dispute Resolution and Small States
/1 Comment/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe aim of this two-day conference is to bring together representatives of Small States, government officials, academics and NGOs, as well as lawyers who are involved in dispute resolution in or for Small States (defined as those states with a population of 1.5 million or less). Conference participants will explore how (international) environmental dispute resolution […]
Verona, 23/24 May 2019: Trending International Law Topics – #TILT
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe Law Department of the University of Verona (Italy), in cooperation with the Ph.D. School of Law and Economics and the European Documentation Centre, welcomes submission to the #TILT Young Academics Colloquium, to be held on 23-24 May 2019. It is the first meeting involving early career scholars on trending international and EU law topics to […]
Book Launch: Rethinking Choice of Law in Cross-Border Sales
/in News/by Giesela RuehlGustavo Moser has authored a new book on
Out now: Issue 3 of RabelsZ 82 (2018)
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe new issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabels Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has now available. It contains the following articles: