Entries by Giesela Ruehl

Max Planck Post-Doc Conference on European Private Law

On 7 and 8 May 2012 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg hosts the forth Max Planck Post-Doc Conference on European Private Law. It invites European Junior Scholars to present and discuss their research work. Further information is available 

Max Planck Encyclopedia on European Private Law released

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg has released the English-language working of its Encyclopedia on European Private International Law. Published by Oxford University Press and featuring more than 120 authors the publication  follows the 2009 release of the German-language version. The information on the institute’s website reads as follows: […]

Spanish Forum on Private International Law

Leading Spanish private international law scholars have recently founded the Spanish Forum on Private International Law (Foro español de Derecho internacional privado – FEDIP). The Foro is meant to  promote the awareness on private international law issues in the Spanish society and to foster discussion on those issues among academics and other specialists in the […]

Bayreuth Conference on a “Rome 0-Regulation”

On 29 and 30 June 2012 Stefan Leible and Hannes Unberath from the University of Bayreuth will host a conference on the  question whether we need a “Rome 0-Regulation” dealing with general issues of European Private International Law. Registration is

ERA Conference on Rome I and II

On 31 May and 1 June 2012, the European Academy of European Law (ERA) will host a conference on Rome I and Rome II in Trier  (Germany). The conference will concentrate on day-to-day situations in cross-border context, notably consumer contracts and traffic accidents, and is supposed to provide a forum for debate between legal practitioners on […]

Fleischer on Optional Instruments in European Private Law

Holger Fleischer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, has posted a (German) article on optional instruments in European Private Law on SSRN. It is forthcoming in Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht and can be downloaded