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.
In November 2012 Oxford University Press and the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford will host the 2012 Clarendon Law Lectures to be delivered by Lord Collins of Mapesbury. Focusing on “Justiciability in National and International Law” the lectures will take place in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St. Cross Building, St. Cross Road, Oxford OX1 3UL. […]
Christopher Hodges, Iris Benöhr and Naomi Creutzfeld-Banda, all from the University of Oxford, have recently published a comprehensive comparative study on consumer ADR in Europe (Consumer ADR in Europe, Hart Publishing, 2012). The volume provides a detailed overview of existing ADR schemes in various European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the United […]
Hannes Rösler, Senior Reserach Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, has published a monograph on the European Judiciary in the Field of Private Law (Europäische Gerichtsbarkeit auf dem Gebiet des Zivilrechts, Mohr Siebeck 2012). Looking into the interaction between national and European courts in private law, Rösler asks […]
It has not yet been mentioned on this blog that the European Law Institute has published an extensive Statement on the Proposal for a Common European Sales Law. The Statement (critically) analyses the Proposal in the light of the European Commission’s policy objectives and makes recommendations how to achieve them. The Statement can be downloaded
On 5 November 2013, Mathias W. Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, will deliver the 13th Ernst Rabel Lecture at the
Xandra E. Kramer, Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Remco van Rhee, Professor at Maastricht University, have edited a book on “Civil Litigation in a Globalising World”. Published by T. M. C. Asser Press and distributed by
Two Spanish Articles on Rome III and the Succession Regulation have recently been published in Diario La Ley: La nueva regulación de la ley aplicable a la separación judicial y al divorcio: aplicación del Reglamento Roma III en España, Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos, Profesora Titular de Derecho internacional privado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Diario La […]
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