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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

The renaissance of the Blocking Statute

December 12, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written 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 […]

Call for Papers: Judges in Utopia – Civil Courts as European Courts

December 11, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

Vacancy at the University of Bremen: Paid PhD-Researcher Position in Private International Law

November 26, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

Blockchain Networks and European Private International Law

November 26, 2018/2 Comments/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

4/5 December: Dispute resolution events at University of Antwerp

November 20, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

On 4 and 5 December 2018 the following two events will take place at the University of Antwerp: On 4 December 2018,

Out now: Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, Issue 4 (2018)

November 12, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The latest issue of the

Out now: Journal of Private International Law, Volume 14, Issue 3

November 8, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Issue 14. 3 of the Journal of Private International Law has just been released. It contains the following articles: Maria Caterina Baruffi, 

Out now: Issue 4 of RabelsZ 82 (2018)

November 5, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

Netherlands Commercial Court: English proceedings in The Netherlands

October 25, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

Alexander Vik v Deutsche Bank AG: the powers of the English court outside of the jurisdiction in contempt of court proceedings

October 23, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

By Diana Kostina The recent Court of Appeal judgment in

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