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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

Out now: New International Commercial Courts

February 10, 2024/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Over the past two decades, various jurisdictions around the world have created new specialised domestic courts to resolve international commercial disputes. Located in the Gulf region (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar), in Asia (Singapore, China, Kazakhstan) and in Europe (Germany, France, the Netherlands), these courts enrich the current landscape of the resolution of international commercial disputes. […]

4-year PostDoc Position in European law at Humboldt University Berlin

January 26, 2024/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Law Faculty of Humboldt University is inviting applications for a four-year PostDoc position in European law. The position is fully paid and funded by the graduate research programme DynamInt (Dynamic Integration Order) which itself is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The PostDoc is supposed to pursue her/his research project in the […]

Legal Accountability of Transnational Institutions: Special Issue of the King’s Law Journal

January 19, 2024/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

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Short-term PostDoc Position(s) at Humboldt University Berlin

January 19, 2024/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The graduate resesarch programme DynamInt (Dynamic Integration Order) of Humboldt University is inviting international PostDocs to apply for a short-term (3 to 6 months), fully paid research stay in Berlin. The PostDoc is supposed to pursue her/his research project in the field of European Law. She/he is also expected to interact with the group of […]

Circulation of Personal Status – International symposium, January 19, 2024

January 10, 2024/2 Comments/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

An international symposium on the circulation of personal status be held on January 19, 2024 at the Italian Court of Cassation. The symposium is organized by the Société de législation comparée (

RabelsZ 87 (2023): Issue 4

December 21, 2023/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It contains the following contributions: ESSAYS Mareike Schmidt, Kulturalität der Rechtsanwendung und internationale Rechtsvereinheitlichung – Überlegungen am Beispiel des UN-Kaufrechts, 643–671, DOI:

Elgar Companion to UNCITRAL: Virtual Book launch

November 19, 2023/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Co-edited by Rishi Gulati, Thomas John and Ben Koehler, the

Foreign law in the Draft Code of French Private International Law: New volume in French

October 30, 2023/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Gustavo Cerqueira and Hugues Fulchiron have recently edited a new volume (in French) on the appliation of foreign law in the draft code of French private international law (Le droit étranger dans le projet de code de droit international privé – Connaissance et applicationdroit). They have kindly provided us with the following English summary:   […]

Certificat de coutume: New volume in French

October 30, 2023/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Gustavo Cerqueira, Nicolas Nord, and Cyril Nourissat have recently edited a new volume on the

New issue alert: RabelsZ 87 (2023), Issue 3

October 25, 2023/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It contans the following articles: Horatia Muir Watt: Alterity in the Conflict of Laws. An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI:

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