Now (partly) online: Encyclopedia of Private International Law
During 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
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
Brexit Negotiations Series on OBLB
/1 Comment/in /by Giesela RuehlOn 17 March 2017 Horst Eidenmüller and John Armour, both from the University of Oxford, organised a one-day conference at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, on ‘Negotiating Brexit’. One panel focused on the effects of Brexit on the resolution of international disputes, including issues of jurisdiction, choice of law, recognition and enforcement as well as international arbitration. […]
New Hungarian Private International Law Act
/6 Comments/in /by Giesela RuehlBy Tamás Szabados, LL.M. (UCL), PhD (ELTE), Senior Lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) On 11 April 2017, the new Hungarian Private International Law Act (Act XXVIII of 2017), adopted earlier by the Hungarian Parliament, was promulgated. The new Act will enter into force on 1 January 2018 and will fully replace the decree-law […]
Hague Securities Convention in force
/in /by Giesela RuehlThis is no April fool’s prank: The Hague Convention of 5 July 2006 on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary will enter into force today. It will apply in the United States, Mauritius and Switzerland. More states will hopefully soon follow.
Brexit, again: White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill
/2 Comments/in /by Giesela RuehlSince Wednesday it is
House of Lords EU Committee on Judicial Cooperation post-Brexit
/1 Comment/in /by Giesela RuehlOn 20 March 2017 the European Union Committee of the House of Lords has published its Report on Judicial cooperation post-Brexit (“Brexit: Justice for families, individuals and Businesses?”). The full Report is available
Job Vacancy: PhD Position/Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, University of Bonn, Germany, is looking for one highly skilled and motivated PhD candidate and fellow (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) on a part-time basis (50%) as of 1 June 2017. The successful candidate holds a first law degree (ideally the First German State Examination) and is interested in the […]
Thank you, Martin, for 10 years of conflictoflaws.net!
/in /by Giesela RuehlDear Martin, dear all, We would like to take the opportunity and thank you, Martin, very much for setting up and taking care of the blog for more than 10 years! Under your supervision the blog has developed into one of the leading and most influential platforms in the field of conflict of laws and […]
24 February: Unalex conference on Open Issues in EU Private International Law
/in /by Giesela RuehlOn Friday, 24 February 2017, the research project “unalex – multilingual information for the uniform interpretation of the instruments of judicial cooperation in civil matters” is organizing a workshop on European International Family Law under the title “European Open Issues in Private International Law: Matrimonial and Maintenance Law” at the University of Genoa. The unalex […]
Vacancies: 2 PhD Positions at the University of Jena
/in /by Giesela RuehlProfessor Dr. Giesela Rühl, University of Jena, is seeking to fill two positions as PhD students/research assistants (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter) as of 1 May/1 June 2017. Successful candidates should hold a first law degree (ideally, but not necessarily: First German State Examination) ranking in the top 10-15 % and be interested in the international dimensions of […]