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.
We would like to invite young scholars to submit a paper for the upcoming conference entitled ‘Judges in Utopia: Civil Courts as European Courts’, which will take place in Amsterdam on 7 and 8 November 2019. The conference’s aim is to reflect with legal scholars and practitioners on the reconceptualization of the role of civil […]
The University of BremenLaw School will recruit a doctoral researcher in Private International Law (‘wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ m/w/d), part time 50 per cent, starting in early 2019, for a duration of 36 months. The researcher will work on the project ‘Rome Regulations. Commentary, 3rded. (Calliess/Renner eds.)’. In addition, there is a teaching obligation of 2 hours/week, 28 weeks/year […]
Written by Anton S. Zimmermann, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Blockchain technology and its offspring have recently attracted considerable attention in both media and scholarship. Its decentralised nature raises several legal questions. Among these are, for example, the challenges that blockchain technology poses to data protection laws and […]
On 4 and 5 December 2018 the following two events will take place at the University of Antwerp: On 4 December 2018,
The latest issue of the
Issue 14. 3 of the Journal of Private International Law has just been released. It contains the following articles: Maria Caterina Baruffi,
The new issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabels Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) is now available. It contains the following articles (summaries provided for non-English language) : Mathias Reimann,European Advantages in Global Lawyering, pp. 885-921 Jürgen Basedow, The Hague Conference and the Future of Private International […]
By Friederike Henke, Advocaat & Rechtsanwältin at Buren in Amsterdam The international demand for English language dispute resolution is increasing as the English language is commonly used in international trade and contracts as well as correspondence, not only between the trading partners themselves, but also by international parties, their legal departments and their advisors. Use of […]
By Diana Kostina The recent Court of Appeal judgment in
The Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law and the German Society of International Law are pleased to invite the submission of papers for a conference on Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public and Private International Law as well as European Law 6 – 7 September 2019, Freie Universität Berlin. Contributions […]