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
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 […]
Habitual Residence in European Private International Law
/in News/by Giesela RuehlBettina Rentsch, Humboldt-University Berlin, has authored book about the concept of “habitual residence” in European private international law (Der gewöhnliche Aufenthalt im System des Europäischen Kollisionsrechts, ISBN 978-3-16-155172-7). Published by
Job Vacancy: Research Assistant (50%) at the University of Bonn, Germany
/1 Comment/in News/by Giesela RuehlProfessor Dr. Nina Dethloff, Institute for German, European and International Family Law, University of Bonn, Germany, is looking for a research assistant (WissMit) on a part-time basis (50%) as of 1 January 2018 or later. The candidate should hold a first law degree (as the German First State Exam) and be interested in the international […]
CJEU on the place of the damage under Article 7(2) of Brussels Ia as regards violation of personality rights of a legal person
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlFirst personal impressions presented by Edina Márton, LLM, PhD (Saarbruecken) For jurisdictional purposes, the localisation of cross-border violations of personality rights under European instruments, such as Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia), has attracted the attention of a considerable number of scholars and often led to different legal solutions in the national judicial practice. At […]
Out now: Issue 4 of RabelsZ 81 (2017)
/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: Marc-Philippe Weller, Vom Staat zum Menschen: Die Methodentrias des Internationalen Privatrechts unserer Zeit (Referral, Recognition and Consideration: New Methodological Approaches in Private International Law): This […]