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
Secured Credit in Europe
/in News/by Giesela RuehlTeemu Juutilainen from the University of Helsinki has just published an interesting book on “Secured Credit in Europe: From Conflicts to Compatibility” (Hart Publishing, 2018). It sets out to to develop an optimal division of labour between private international law and substantive unification or harmonisation in the area of security rights over tangible movables and receivables: […]
Out now: Issue 2 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 just been released. It contains the following articles:
Save the date: Conference on Punitive Damages and European Private International Law in Milan, 11 May 2018
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn 11 May 2018 the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law of the University of Milan will host a conference on Punitive Damages and European Private International Law: State of the Art and Future Developments, in cooperation with the Interest Group on Private International law of the Italian Society of International Law and with the […]
Save the date: Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures on 15 June 2018
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn 15 June 2018 Prof. Dr. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale) will host the 4th round of the Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lectures. The Lectures take place in the Senatssaal of Humboldt-University and start at 2pm. This year’s speakers are: Prof. Robert C. Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School Prof. Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor […]
4-6 April 2018, Seville: 60 Years of The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOn 4-6 April 2018 the Loyola University Andalusia in Seville (Spain) will host a conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Jointly organized by The United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Loyola University Andalusia, the University of Zaragoza and […]
International and Comparative Law Quarterly 67 (2018), Issue 1
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe most recent issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) features two articles relating to private international law: Louise Merrett, The Future Enforcement of Asymmetric Jurisdiction Agreements, ICLQ 67 (2018), pp. 37-71: Asymmetric jurisdiction clauses are clauses which contain different provisions regarding jurisdiction for each party. They are widely used in international financial […]
Register now: How European is European Private International Law? Berlin, 2/3 March 2018
/in News/by Giesela RuehlOver the course of the last decades the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law (including civil procedure). The resulting substantial degree of legislative unification has been described as the first true Europeanisation of private international law and even as a kind of “European Choice of […]