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.
Andrea Isabell Dicke, attorney at law in Berlin, has authored a book on capital market related financial transactions with consumers under the Rome I Regulation (“Kapitalmarktgeschäfte mit Verbrauchern unter der Rom I-VO“) Published by Mohr Siebeck the book provides a detailed and thorough analysis of Article 6(4) lit. d) and e) of the Rome I Regulation […]
On June 1, 2015, the Yale – Humboldt Consumer Law Lecture will be held for the second time at Humboldt-University Berlin. In this annual lecture series, up to three scholars from Yale Law School and other leading US-Law Schools will be invited to spend two weeks in Berlin, at Humboldt Law School. During their stay, […]
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has recently been released. It contains the following articles: Jürgen Basedow: Das Zeitelement in der richterlichen Rechtsfortbildung – Einleitung zum Symposium (The Time Dimension in Judicial Law-Making – Introduction to the Symposium) Wherever the […]
On February 25, the German Federal Labor Court referred three questions relating to the interpretation of Art. 9 and 28 Rome I Regulation to the CJEU. They relate to the temporal scope of application of the Rome I Regulation on the hand and, and the (highly) disputed issue whether and to what extent Member States […]
A comment by Jonas Steinle Jonas Steinle, LL.M., is a doctoral student at the chair of Prof. Matthias Weller at the EBS University for Economic and Law Wiesbaden and research fellow at the Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (www.ebs.edu/tcdr). He also holds a scholarship of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition […]
From 11 through 13 March 2015 the German Society of International Law will hold its 34th biannual conference at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen (Germany). The conference will address two different topics: “Freedom and Regulation in Cyberspace” and “Identifying the Law between Source and Judicial Application”. Further details are available (in German) at the
On 25 May 2015 Anne Henow, Hayk Kupelyants, Jens van ‘t Klooster, Kim Hecker and Marco Meyer from the University of Cambridge will host a one day workshop on “The Ideal of Democracy and the Reality of Sovereign Debt” at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge. Here is the call for papers: In the aftermath […]
Michael Stürner (University of Konstanz), Fernando Gascón Inchausti (Complutense University of Madrid) and Remo Caponi (University of Florence) have edited a volume on “The Role of Consumer ADR in the Administration of Justice” (Sellier European Law Publishers, Munich). It sheds light on the Directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Regulation on Online Dispute Resolution – and […]
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law” (RabelsZ) has recently been released. It contains the following articles: McGrath, Colm Peter, and Helmut Koziol: Is Style of Reasoning a Fundamental Difference Between the Common Law and the Civil Law? Renner, Moritz: Transnationale Wirtschaftsverfassung […]
Matthias Weller from the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden has posted a paper on “Mutual Trust: In Search of the Future of European Private International Law” on SSRN. The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Private International Law. The pre-edited version can be downloaded