Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Latest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 80 No. 1 (2016)

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The latest 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: Armin Steinbach, Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren und Verfassungsrecht (Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Constitutional Law) Investment treaties allow foreign investors to claim damages against states before tribunals of investor-state dispute […]

Save the Date: 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture on 6 June 2016

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On 6 June 2016, the 3rd Yale-Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture will take place at Humboldt-University Berlin. This year’s speaker will be Professor Richard Brooks (Yale Law School/Columbia Law School), Professor Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School) and Professor Roberta Romano (Yale Law School). The program reads as follows: 2.00 p.m. Welcome by Professor Susanne Augenhofer and the Vice […]

European Parliament: Legislative Resolution on the Amendment of the Small Claims Regulation

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It has not yet been noted on this blog that the European Parliament, on 7 October 2015, adopted at first reading a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure and Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 creating a European order for payment procedure. The resolution as […]

Out now: RabelsZ, Vol. 79 No 4 (2015)

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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: Giesela Rühl and Jan von Hein, Towards a European Code on Private International Law? One of the most important dates in the history of European […]

Lehmann on “Recognition as a Substitute for Conflict of Laws?”

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Matthias Lehmann, University of Bonn, has posted ‘Recognition as a Substitute for Conflict of Laws?’, a chapter in a forthcoming book on ‘General Principles of European Private International Law’ (Stefan Leible, ed.), on SSRN. The piece weighs a whole spectre of arguments for and against an EU version of the Full Faith and Credit Clause […]

Out now: Commentary on the EU Succession Regulation

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Ulf Bergquist, Domenico Damascelli, Richard Frimston, Paul Lagarde, Felix Odersky and Barbara Reinhartz have written an article-by-article commentary on the new EU Succession Regulation that recently entered into force. Authored by members of the Experts Group that drafted the Commission’s Proposal for the Regulation the commentary discusses all crucial points of the new legal framework […]

Deren on Expropriation in Private International Law

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Deniz Halil Deren has authored a book (in German) on expropriation in private international law (“Internationales Enteignungsrecht – Kollisionsrechtliche Grundlagen und Investitionsschutzfragen”). Published by Mohr Siebeck the book looks at issues of choice of law and investor protection. The official abstract reads as follows: Since the 20th century, states have extensively been exercising their right […]

Duden on Surrogate Motherhood in Private International Law and the Law of International Civil Procedure

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Konrad Duden from the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg has authored a book (in German) on surrogate motherhood in private international law and the law of international civil procedure (“Leihmutterschaft im Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrecht. Abstammung und ordre public im Spiegel des Verfassungs-, Völker- und Europarechts”). Published by Mohr Siebeck, the book looks at filiation and […]