Public hearing on the Reform of the Brussels IIa Regulation
On 12 October 2015, the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament held a public hearing on the reform of the Brussels IIa Regulation. A video of the hearing is available
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: RabelsZ, Vol. 79 No 4 (2015)
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe 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?”
/in /by Giesela RuehlMatthias 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
/in /by Giesela RuehlUlf 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
/in /by Giesela RuehlDeniz 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
/in /by Giesela RuehlKonrad 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 […]
Now available: New edition of Volumes 10 and 11 of the „Münchener Kommentar“ on Private International Law
/in /by Giesela RuehlIt has not yet been mentioned on this blog that Volumes 10 and 11 of the Munich Commentary on the German Civil Code (Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch), are now available in their sixth edition (2015). A standard German language treatise on both German and European private international law, the new edition contains a detailed […]
Request for preliminary ruling on Art. 5 No. 1 Brussels I Regulation
/in /by Giesela RuehlOn 18 August 2015, the German Federal Supreme Court referred the following questions relating to the interpretation of Article 5 No. 1 of the Brussels I Regulation to the CJEU (my translation): 1. Must Art. 5 No. 1 lit. a) of the Brussels I Regulation be interpreted as covering a claim for compensation under Art. […]
European Succession Regulation in Force
/in /by Giesela RuehlOn 17 August 2015 the European
Gedächtnisschrift for Hannes Unberath
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe publishing house C.H. Beck has recently released the “Gedächtnisschrift für Hannes Unberath”. Edited by Stefan Arnold and Stephan Lorenz the volume contains, among others, four German language contributions relating to private international law and international civil procedure: Frank Bauer, Art. 59 EuErbVO: Verfahrensrechtliche Kollisionsnorm zur Sicherung des freien Verkehrs öffentlicher Urkunden (pp. 19 ff.) Wolfgang […]