Conflict of Laws and the Internet
Pedro de Miguel Asensio from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid has published a book on
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
Sharing Economy in EU Private International Law
/in News/by Giesela RuehlEdoardo Rossi has published (in Italian) a book on the Sharing Economic in EU Private International Law (“La Sharing Economy nel diritto internazionale privato europeo”). The author has kindly provided us with an abstract: In the current economic and social context new and controversial sharing practices, offering anyone the opportunity to search for or make available […]
Foreign Limitation Periods in England & Wales: Roberts v SSAFA
/4 Comments/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Elijah Granet When a British woman gives birth in a German hospital staffed with British midwives on a contract from the British ministry of defence, what law applies and to what extent? This seemingly simple question took Mrs Justice Foster, in the English and Welsh High Court of Justice, 299 paragraphs to answer in […]
The Hague Convention on Child Abduction and UK Overseas Territories: VB v TR
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Elijah Granet In a recent decision of the Family Division of the English and Welsh High Court—VB v TR (Re RR)
Competition Law and COVID 19
/in Views/by Giesela RuehlWritten by Sophie Hunter With more than 200 countries affected to date, the current crisis presents far reaching implications for competition law and policy on a global scale. This crisis is affecting developed and developing countries alike, especially by putting young competition authorities under a stress test of the resilience of their competition rules. As […]
Now available online: RabelsZ, Issue 2/2020
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe second 2020 issue of RabelsZ is now
Munich Dispute Resolution Day 2020: Human Rights Lawsuits before Civil and Arbitral Courts in Germany
/in News/by Giesela RuehlA spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of human rights lawsuits. Striking human rights cases have always enjoyed high media attention. But lately, they appear in a new dimension in Europe. The headline-grabbing “KiK” trial before the Regional Court of Dortmund and the current discussion about the adoption of a German Supply Chain Law […]
Trending topics in international and EU law
/in News/by Giesela RuehlMaria Caterina Baruffi (University of Verona) and Matteo Ortino (University of Verona) have edited the book «Trending topics in international and EU law: legal and economic perspectives». It collects the proceedings of the conference
RabelsZ, Issue 1/2020
/in News/by Giesela RuehlThe first 2020 issue RabelsZ has just been released. It features the following articles: Magnus, Robert, Unternehmenspersönlichkeitsrechte im digitalen Raum und Internationales Privatrecht (Corporate Personality Rights on the Internet and the Applicable Law), pp. 1 et seq Companies can defend themselves against defamatory and business-damaging statements made on the internet. German case law in this area […]
Call for applications: Postdoctoral positions at the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
/in News/by Giesela RuehlA postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University is available for the academic year of 2020-2021. The position is part of the “Old Identities, New Times: Does the Common Legal Identity Withstand Modernity?”, a research project headed by Dr Sharon Shakargy and funded by the Israeli Science Foundation (grant 835/18). The […]