Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Proposal for Amendment of the Brussels I-Regulation

The recently reformed Brussels I-Regulation is up for reform: according to a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (COM(2013) 554 final) of July 26, 2013 the Brussels I-Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (recast)) will be changed to account for the 2012 Unified Patent Court Agreement and the 2012 Protocol to […]

Do we need a Rome 0-Regulation?

As reported earlier in our blog, Stefan Leible and Hannes Unberath from the University of Bayreuth hosted a conference on the question whether we need a Rome 0-Regulation in June 2012. Recently, the conference volume has been published. For the moment it is available in German only. However, the editors are contemplating an English version at […]

ADR and ODR for (Cross-Border) Consumer Contracts

On 22 April 2013 Council of the European Union adopted a Directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a Regulation on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for (cross-border) consumer contracts. Building on two proposals of the European Commission of November 2011 the two instruments are meant to improve the cross-border enforcement of consumer rights. The official […]

Ringe on Regulatory Competition in Corporate Law in the European Union

Wolf-Georg Ringe, Professor of International Commercial Law at the Copenhagen Business School, has posted a paper on charter competition in European Union on SSRN (“Corporate Mobility in the European Union – A Flash in the Pan? – An Empirical Study on the Success of Lawmaking and Regulatory Competition”). The paper is available

Vogeler on Free Choice of Law in Private International Law of Non-Contractual Obligations

Andreas Vogeler has written a book on free choice of law in the European Private International Law of non-contractual obligations (Die freie Rechtswahl im Kollisionsrecht der außervertraglichen Schuldverhältnisse. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2013). The official summary reads as follows: With the codification of Art. 14 of the Rome II Regulation, European lawmakers harmonized the exercise of […]

Köhler on Overriding Mandatory Provisions in European Private International Law

Andreas Köhler from the University of Passau has written a book on overriding mandatory provisions in European Private International Law (Eingriffsnormen – Der ‘unfertige Teil’ des europäischen IPR, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2013). The author has kindly provided us with the following summary: After a detailed dogmatic analysis of the so-called “mandatory rules problem”, Andreas Köhler […]

Born on the European Private International Law of Book-Entry Securities

Michael Born has published a book on the European Private International Law of  Book-Entry Securities (Europäisches Kollisionsrecht des Effektengiros, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2013). The official summary reads as follows: The law applicable to securities held in book-entry form in securities accounts is subject to a variety of European private international law rules. However, these provisions […]

Nehne on Methodology and Principles of European Private International Law

Timo Nehne, University of Cologne, has written a new book on methodology and general principles of European Private International Law (Methodik und allgemeine Lehren des europäischen Internationalen Privatrechts. Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2012).  The author has kindly provided us with the following summary: The Private International Law regulations adopted by the European Union so far stipulate […]

Deinert on International Labor Law

Olaf Deinert, Professor at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, has written a book on (German and European) international labor law (Internationales Arbeitsrecht. Deutsches und europäisches Arbeitskollisionsrecht, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2013). The official summary reads as follows: Olaf Deinert studies all the issues pertaining to applicable law in labor law cases with a foreign element. He gives a […]