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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

Virtual Conference on “The Burden of Proof in International Arbitration”

October 6, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 15.00 CET, the European Center for Arbitration and Mediation and The International School of Arbitration and Mediation for Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East organise their Annual International Conference Med-Mid XIV on “The Burden of Proof in International Arbitration/La charge de la preuve dans l’arbitrage international”. The conference addresses four key issues of any international […]

Political Agreement on the Reform of the Evidence and the Service Regulation

July 30, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

After years of discussion the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have finally reached agreement on the reform of the Evidence and the Service Regulation. The new rules aim to improve the cross-border taking of evidence as well as the cross-border service of documents in particular through an enhanced use of information […]

Out now: RabelsZ 3/2020

July 25, 2020/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The third 2020 issue of RabelsZ has been released this week. It contains the following articles: Reinhard Zimmermann, Pflichtteil und Noterbenrecht in historisch-vergleichender Perspektive (Compulsory Portion and Forced Heirship in Historical and Comparative Perspective), pp. 465–547 The essay traces the development of mandatory family protection from Roman law through the ius commune to the modern […]

Humboldt-University Berlin: PhD fellowship in private (international) law

July 2, 2020/1 Comment/in News/by Giesela Ruehl

The Graduate Programm “Dynamic Integration” at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt-University Berlin offers a PhD fellowship in private (international) law. The fellowship is (generously) funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). In addition, Humboldt-University offers an outstanding research environment. For more information see

Equality of the parties in investment arbitration – public international law aspects

May 19, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Silja Vöneky, University of Freiburg Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Equality of the parties in investment arbitration – private international law aspects

May 18, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Stefan Huber, University of Tübingen Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Public international law requirements for the effective enforcement of human rights

May 15, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Peter Hilpold, University of Innsbruck Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Private international law requirements for the effective enforcement of human rights

May 14, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Tanja Domej, University of Zurich Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Corporate responsibility in (public) international law

May 12, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Oliver Dörr, University of Osnabrück Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of the contributions published in

Corporate responsibility and private (international) law

May 10, 2020/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Giesela Rühl, University of Jena/Humboldt-University of Berlin Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main findings of all contributions published in

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