14th Ernst Rabel Lecture at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg
On 20 October 2014, Dagmar Coester-Waltjen from the University of Göttingen (Germany) will deliver the 14th Ernst Rabel Lecture at the
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
ERA: Annual Conference on European Family Law 2014
/in /by Giesela RuehlOn 25 and 26 September 2014 the Academy of European Law (ERA) will host its Annual Conference on European Family. The conference will be dedicated to recent case law and recent developments in cross-border family matters. Particular attention will be placed on the review of the Brussels IIa Regulation as well as cross-border maintenance after the […]
Conference on “Artificial Reproduction and European Family Law”
/in /by Giesela RuehlFrom October 2 to 4, 2014 the 12th biannual Symposium on European Family Law will take place at the University of Regensburg (Germany). Hosted by Anatol Dutta, Dieter Schwab, Peter Gottwald, Dieter Henrich and Martin Löhnig the symposium will be dedicated to artificial reproduction. The topic shall be discussed from a comparative and private international […]
German Federal Supreme Court Strengthens Foreign Notaries – A clear Commitment to Substitution of Form?
/in /by Giesela RuehlBy Jan Lieder, University of Kiel, and Christoph Ritter, University of Jena I. Introduction In a recent decision[1], the German Federal Supreme Court assessed the legal consequences of a foreign notarization with regard to a share transfer of a German limited liability company (LLC). The holding contains the first statements regarding the substitution of form […]
Register Now: Conference on Coherence in European Private International Law
/in /by Giesela RuehlWe mentioned earlier that Jan von Hein from the University of Freiburg and Giesela Rühl from the University of Jena will host a (German language) conference on Coherence in European Private International Law on 10 and 11 October 2014 in Freiburg. Registration is now open. For more information visit the
New Hague Maintenance Convention in Force in the EU
/1 Comment/in /by Giesela RuehlThe Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance has entered into force in the member states of the European Union on 1 August 2014. It eases the enforcement of judicial decisions relating to maintenance obligations via the establishment of central authorities in each […]
Yassari on Islamic Family Law and Private International Law
/in /by Giesela RuehlNadjma Yassari from the Max Planck Institut for comparative and international private law in Hamburg has published a comparative monograph on the dower in family property law in islamic countries (Die Brautgabe im Familienvermögensrecht. Innerislamischer Rechtsvergleich und Integration in das deutsche Recht, Mohr Siebeck, 2014, 580 pp.). She examines the financial relations between spouses, as exemplified […]
Latest Issue of RabelsZ: Vol. 78 No 3 (2014)
/in /by Giesela RuehlThe 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: Klaus Bartels, Zum Rückgriff nach eigennütziger Zahlung auf fremde Schuld – Anleihen bei DCFR und common law für das deutsche Recht (Recourse After Self-serving Payment on Another’s Debt – German […]
Kupelyants on Sovereign Debt Restructuring
/in /by Giesela RuehlHayk Kupelyants from the University of Cambridge as posted a paper on “Police Powers of States in Sovereign Debt Restructurings” on SSRN. The abstract reads as follows: The paper looks at the powers of the States to unilaterally modify their debt obligations in the context of sovereign debt restructurings. Drawing on the national case law […]