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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

Moser and McIlwrath: Negotiating International Commercial Contracts

February 17, 2021/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Gustavo Moser and Michael McIlwrath  have just published “Negotating International Commercial Contracts” (with Eleven publishers). More information is available on the

Digital teaching of Private International Law: Second EAPIL (Virtual) Seminar on January 27, 2021

January 19, 2021/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The European Association of Private International (EAPIL) will host its Second Virtual Seminar on 27 January 2021, 5 to 7 pm (MET). Devoted to the digital teaching of Private International Law and its challenges in Corona times, the Seminar will present tools that may help to improve the digital teaching of our discipline and discuss pervasive problems […]

Out now: RabelsZ 1/2021

January 15, 2021/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Issue 1/2021 of RabelsZ is now available online! It contains the following articles:   Reinhard Zimmermann (Hamburg): Zwingender Angehörigenschutz im Erbrecht ­- Entwicklungslinien jenseits der westeuropäischen Kodifikationen (Mandatory Family Protection in the Law of Succession), RabelsZ 85 (2021) 1–75 – DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2020-0092 Following on from an earlier contribution devoted to the development of the notions of forced heirship […]

Cross-Border Families under Covid-19: Call for Papers

December 15, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University will host an  international socio-legal (zoom-) workshop on 22-23 June 2021 to explore the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and its regulation on cross-border families: Cross-border families (also known as transnational and globordered families) are a growing and diverse phenomenon. People around the globe create bi-national spousal […]

Brexit and Private International Law: Registration for the first EAPIL Virtual Seminar is now open

November 23, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

We are glad to announce that registration for the first (Virtual) Seminar of the 

Request for preliminary ruling from Bulgaria: Recognition of foreign birth certificate

November 18, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Administrative Court of the City of Sofia, Bulgaria, has recently submitted a request for a preliminary ruling revolving around the recognition of a foreign birth certificate issued by another EU Member State (Case C-490/20): The case concerns a refusal of a municipality in Sofia to issue a Bulgarian birth certificate to a child of […]

First EAPIL (Virtual) Seminar on 11 December 2020: Brexit and Private International Law – What now?

November 4, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

On 11 December 2020, from 11 am to 1 pm (MET), the

Out now: RabelsZ 4/2020

November 3, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

Issue 4 of RabelsZ is now available online and in print. It contains the following articles: MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT, Die Frühehe im Rechtsvergleich: Praxis, Sachrecht, Kollisionsrecht (Early Marriage in Comparative Law: Practice, Substantive Law, Choice of Law), pp. 705–785 Early marriage is a global and ancient phenomenon; its frequency worldwide, but especially […]

Overriding Mandatory Rules in the Law of the EU Member States: Webinar of the EAPIL Young EU Private International Law Research Network

October 27, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

On Monday, 16 November 2020, starting at 9.15 am CET, the

Human rights in global supply chains: Do we need to amend the Rome II-Regulation?

October 9, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Giesela Rühl, Humboldt-University of Berlin   The protection of human rights in global supply chains has been high on the agenda of national legislatures for a number of years. Most recently, also the European Union has joined the bandwagon. After Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders announced plans to prepare a European human rights […]

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