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.
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 […]
Professor Jan von Hein from the Faculty of Law at the University of Trier is seeking to fill the position of a Research Assistant at his Chair for Civil Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law as of 1 May 2012. Candidates should be interested in the Chair’s main research areas and should have a […]
The latest issue of the “Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP)”, No. 1, 2012, has been released. The table of contents reads as follows (in brackets: pages in the issue): Leitartikel (Editorial) Towards a European Legal Culture (1-6) Vassilios Skouris Artikel (Articles) Freiheitliche Dispositionsmaxime und sowjetischer Paternalismus im russischen Zivilprozessrecht: Wechselwirkung verschiedener Bestandteile einer Transformationsrechtsordnung (7-22) Eugenia […]
Jürgen Basedow, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg, Stéphanie Francq, Professor of European Law at the Université catholique de Louvain, and Laurence Idot, Professor at the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas have edited a volume on international antitrust ligitation. It has been published by Hart Publishing (Oxford) and covers a variety […]
On the occasion of Bernd von Hoffmann’s 70th birthday Herbert Kronke and Karsten Thorn have edited a Festschrift entitled “Grenzen überwinden – Prinzipien bewahren” (Overcoming Borders – Preserving Principles). It has been published by Ernst und Werner Gieseking and contains contributions relating to Private International Law, International Civil Procedure, Comparative Law and International Commercial Arbitration. The table […]
The latest issue of “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrecht (IPRax)” has just been released. The table of contents is available on the
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 – among others – articles on the recent Chinese and Japanese Codifications on Private International Law. The table of contents reads as follows: Articles: Knut Benjamin Pissler, […]
On 9 and 10 February 2012, the European Law Academy will host a conference on the Optional European Sales Law in Trier, Germany. The objective of the conference is to discuss the Proposal for a Common European Sales Law, which was published by the EU Commission in October 2011. Registration and further information can be found […]
The latest issue of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law Research Paper Series was released on December 20, 2011. The papers are available on
On Friday, 20 January 2012, the German Notary Institute, the University of Würzburg and the Notary Institute at the University of Würzburg will host an academic Symposium on the Proposed Common European Sales Law. More information is available on the