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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

London, 6/7 September 2018: Environmental Dispute Resolution and Small States

August 2, 2018/1 Comment/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The 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

July 31, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The 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

July 30, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Gustavo Moser has authored a new book on

Out now: Issue 3 of RabelsZ 82 (2018)

July 15, 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) has now available. It contains the following articles:

Job Vacancy at the University of Mannheim (Germany)

July 13, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Faculty of Law at the University of Mannheim is looking for a research fellow (akademische Mitarbeiterin / akademischer Mitarbeiter) at the Chair for Private Law, International and European Business Law (Prof. Dr. Moritz Renner) on a part-time basis (50 %, E 13 TV-L) as of 1 September 2018 or later. His/her tasks will include supporting […]

Advanced Introduction to Private International Law and Procedure

July 11, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Peter Hay (Emory University, School of Law, USA) has recently published a new book on 

The “Coman” Case (C-673/16): Some reflections from the point of view of private international law

July 2, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Dr. iur. Baiba Rudevska (Latvia) On 5 June 2018, the ECJ rendered a judgment in the Coman case (C-673/16). For the first time the ECJ had the opportunity to rule, on the concept of ‘spouse’ within the meaning of the Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the […]

Job Vacancy at the University of Trier (Germany)

June 30, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Faculty of Law at the University of Trier is looking for a research fellow (Wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter(in)) at the Chair for Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Jens Kleinschmidt, LL.M. (Berkeley)) on a part-time basis (50 %) as soon as possible. The position will be paid according to the salary scale E 13 […]

From the editors’ desk: Construction zone ahead

June 29, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Dear readers, some of you might have noticed that we are currently working to improve conflictoflaws.net. If the site does not look the way it used to look like, that is why. We do our best to keep the blog up and running while we are working on it, but ask for your understanding if […]

Tort Litigation against TNCs in the English Courts

June 22, 2018/in News/by Giesela Ruehl
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