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.
Jan Kleinheisterkamp, Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics, has written an arcticle dealing with the much commented “Dallah v. Pakistan” case. The article has been published in The Modern Law Review 75 (2012), pp. 639-654. The abstract reads as follows: This note analyses the reasoning of the English and French courts […]
Jan Peter Schmidt, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, has posted an article on SSRN that deals with the effects of foreign legacies in Germany. The article is forthcoming in RabelsZ and can be downloaded
Ugljesa Grusic, Lecturer at University of Nottingham – School of Law and PhD Candidate at London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), has posted an article on SSRN that deals with the Territorial Scope of Employment Legislation and Choice of Law. It has recently been published in the Modern Law Review and can be downloaded
Jan D. Lüttringhaus, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, has posted an article on SSRN that deals with the uniform interpretation of the Rome I, Rome II and Brussels I Regulations (“Übergreifende Begrifflichkeiten im europäischen Zivilverfahrens- und Kollisionsrecht – Grund und Grenzen der rechtsaktsübergreifenden Auslegung dargestellt […]
The second issue of the Journal of Private International Law has recently been released. The table of contents reads as follows: Hill, Jonathan, The Significance of Foreign Judgments Relating to an Arbitral Award in the Context of an Application to Enforce the Award in England, pp. 159-193 Elbalti, Beligh, The Jurisdiction of Foreign Courts and the Enforcement […]
It has not yet been mentioned on this blog that the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg has recently issued a call for applications for another Post-Doc Conference on European Private Law (including Private International Law) to be held on 22 and 23 April 2013. In contrast to the last […]
The first commentary on the (Proposal for a) Common European Sales has just been released. Edited by Reiner Schulze from the University of Munster it provides an article by article-analysis of the envisioned optional instrument. More information is available on the
Justin Zaremby has posted “Restating the Restatement of Conflicts: Approaching the Legitimacy Question in Choice-of-Law Theory” on SSRN. The paper can be downloaded
Caroline Harvey, University of Oxford, and Michael Schilling, King’s College London, have published a paper dealing with the (consequences of an ineffective) choice of the Common European Sales Law (CESL). The paper can be downloaded
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: Reinhard Zimmermann, Testamentsformen: »Willkür« oder Ausdruck einer Rechtskultur? (Testamentary Form Requirements: Arbitrary or Expression of Legal Culture?), pp. 471-508 In the history of European private law the law […]