Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Valencia, 8 September 2017: 4th unalex Conference on the EU Matrimonial and Partnership Property Regulations

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The University of Valencia (Spain) will be organising a conference on 8 September 2017 on selected issues regarding the new Regulations 2016/1103 and 2016/1104. The conference is part of the project “unalex – multilingual information for the uniform interpretation of the instruments of judicial cooperation in civil matters” which is co-financed by the European Commission and organised […]

Out now: Issue 3 of RabelsZ 81 (2017)

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The new issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht  – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has just been released. It contains the following articles: Holger Fleischer, Spezialisierte Gerichte: Eine Einführung (Specialized Courts: An Introduction) Specialized courts are on the rise. This introduction takes a look at different patterns and […]

10/11 November 2017: Investment Protection, Arbitration and the Rule of Law in the EU

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Investment 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

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Over 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 […]

Just published: RabelsZ Vol. 81 No. 2 (2017)

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The 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. […]