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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

Out now: Encyclopedia of Private International Law!

October 19, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

Hard to believe, but true: The Encyclopedia of Private International Law, published by Edward Elgar and edited by Jürgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute Hamburg), Franco Ferrari (NYU Law School), Pedro de Miguel Asensio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and me, has finally been released end of September. Bringing together more than 180 authors from 57 countries […]

Court of Appeal allows in England claims against English-based multinational for overseas human rights violations

October 18, 2017/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

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24 November: unalex-Conference at the University of Innsbruck

October 12, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

Readers of our blog will recall that Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwartze from the University of Innsbruck will host the final conference of the EU-project “unalex – multilingual information for the uniform interpretation of the instruments of judicial cooperation in civil matters“ in Innsbruck on 24 November  (see our earlier

Conflict of Laws.net selected as one of the “Top 100 UK Law Blogs”

October 6, 2017/2 Comments/in /by Giesela Ruehl

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Child & Family Law Quarterly: Special Brexit Issue

September 19, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

Back in March the Child & Family Law Quarterly together with Cambridge Family Law hosted a conference on the impact of Brexit on international family law (see our

Call for Papers: “60 Years of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Key Issues and Future Challenges”

September 18, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

On 5/6 April 2018 Dr. Ana Mercedes López Rodríguez, Ph.D. and Dr. Katia Fach Gómez, LL.M will convene a conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The conference will take place at University Loyola Andalucia (Seville/Spain) and is expected to comprise 3-4 Keynote Lectures and […]

A.G. Saugmandsgaard on the recognition of private (Sharia) divorces under Rome III

September 16, 2017/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

It does not happen too often that (the notion of) European Private International Law hits the front pages of the daily news. But on Friday it did: Germany’s foremost (conservative) newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), addressed A.G. Saugmandsgaard’s recent opinion on the recognition of private (Sharia) divorces under the Rome III Regulation. In so doing […]

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

August 25, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

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)

August 3, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

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 […]

Save the date: unalex-Conference at the University of Innsbruck on 24 November 2017

July 27, 2017/in /by Giesela Ruehl

On 24 November 2017 Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwartze from the University of Innsbruck will host the final conference of the EU-project “

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