Save the date: unalex-Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 24 November 2017
On 24 November 2017 Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwartze from the University of Innsbruck will host the final conference of the EU-project “
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
10/11 November 2017: Investment Protection, Arbitration and the Rule of Law in the EU
/in /by Giesela RuehlInvestment arbitration forms a part of the international litigation arena. And it is a subject which is legally demanding and politically explosive. The 23rd Würzburg Days of European Law (“23. Würzburger Europarechtstage”) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany aim at an academically sound, open and maybe controversial debate of this topical issue. They will take […]
Save the date! Conference on the “Europeanness” of European Private International Law: 2/3 March 2018, Berlin
/1 Comment/in /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 […]
The new German choice-of-law rule for agency: Improved translation
/in /by Giesela RuehlReaders of our blog will recall that we posted a translation of the new German choice-of-law rule for agency
The law applicable to agency: German legislature adopts choice of law rule
/in /by Giesela RuehlOn June 11 the German legislature has adopted a new choice of law rule for the law of agency. It is largely based on a proposal of the 2nd Commission of the German Council for Private International Law headed by our co-editor Jan von Hein. The new Article 8 of the German Introductory Law to […]
Brexit: EU Position Paper on Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe European Commission Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU has submitted a Position Paper on Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters on 28 June 2017. It claims to contain the main principles of the EU position in this regard. A closer look, […]
Just published: RabelsZ Vol. 81 No. 2 (2017)
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe second issue of Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) Vol. 81 (2017) has just been published: Wolf-Georg Ringe, Das Beschlussmängelrecht in Großbritannien (Contesting Shareholder Resolutions in Great Britain) The contestability of shareholder resolutions is a perennial problem in corporate law – effective minority protection needs to be carefully balanced with the risk of abuse. […]
Save the date: LSE-Workshop on International Finance, Party Autonomy and Public Interest
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe LSE Law and Financial Markets Project will host a workshop on “International Finance, Party Autonomy and Public Interest” on 18 May 2017. Speakers include Philipp Paech (LSE), Stéphanie Francq (Louvain-la-Neuve), Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE) and Matthias Lehmann (University of Bonn). Details are available
RabelsZ Vol. 81 (2017) No. 1
/in /by Giesela RuehlWe have not yet alerted our readers to the first issue of Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) which was published in February 2017. So, here we go: Jürgen Basedow, Internationales Einheitsprivatrecht im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (The International Unification of Private Law in the Era of Globalization) In unifying private law, the international community initially made […]
Now (partly) online: Encyclopedia of Private International Law
/in /by Giesela RuehlDuring the last four years a group of 181 authors from 57 countries has been working very hard to make a special book project come true: the 4-volume