Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

ECHR Rules on State Immunity for Civil Claims for Torture

On 14 January, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Jones v. United Kingdom, and issued the following press release. ECHR upholds House of Lords’ decision that State immunity applies in civil cases involving torture of UK nationals by Saudi Arabian officials abroad but says the matter must be kept under review. […]

CJEU Rules on Jurisdiction in Cases of Liability for Defective Products

by Jonas Steinle, LL.M. Jonas Steinle is a doctoral student at the chair of Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, Mag.rer.publ. at the EBS University for Economics and Law in Wiesbaden and a research fellow at the Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (www.ebs.edu/tcdr) in Wiesbaden. He is also a scholarship holder at the Max Planck […]

New PIL Workshop Series at Nanterre University

The University of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Defense, formerly known as Nanterre or Paris X University, will host a private international law workshop series starting 29 January 2014. One purpose of the series will be to allow exchange between practitioners and academics. The first conference will discuss pre-nuptial agreements. The speakers will be two practitioners, […]

Fourth Issue of 2013’s Revue critique droit international privé

The next installment of the Revue critique de droit international privé will contain four articles. -Petra Hammje on the New French Conflict of Law rules on Same Sex Marriage. Changing radically the conception of marriage in the French civil code without proposing a global vision of the family, the French law of 17th May 2013 […]