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.
On April 27 and 28 the University of Chichago’s Law School will host a Conferecen on European Contract Law (University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60615 – Room V). The annoucement on the
On 11 and 12 May 2012 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg hosts a conference on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG). It discusses CISG vs. Regional Sales Law Unification. More information is available
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
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: […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
Several papers dealing with various aspects of the Common European Sales Law (CESL) have recently been published on
As part of a series of compendia on foreign commercial and business law in German language, a fully revised edition on English commercial and business law has just been released. The book is edited and authored (with two additional co-authors) by Volker Triebel, a German Rechtsanwalt and English barrister, Martin Illmer from the Max Planck […]