Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

PILAGG/LSE Round Table Seminar

PILAGG (SciencesPo) / Transnational Law Project (LSE) Tuesday 19 November 2013 Private Citizens of the World. Citizenship beyond the State: Past, Present and Future. Speaker: Prof. Karen Knop, University of Toronto (Law) Discussants: Dr. Annabel Brett, University of Cambridge (History) Dr. Floris De Witte, LSE (Law) Date & time: Tuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00 – […]

The ELI-UNIDROIT Project: From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure – 1st Exploratory Workshop

By Matthias Weller Matthias Weller holds the Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at EBS University for Economics and Law, Wiesbaden, Germany. On 18 and 19 October 2013, the European Law Institute (ELI) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) invited to a “First Explanatory Workshop“ on the […]

Third Issue of 2013’s Revue Critique Droit International Privé

The last issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé is out. It contains three articles and several casenotes. In the first article, Eric Agostini (University of Bordeaux) revisits the doctrine of renvoi (Le mécanisme du renvoi). The  English abstract reads: The mechanism known as renvoi supposes, as a prerequisite, that the forum’s choice of […]

Gay Marriage: France Blacklists 11 Nationalities (Updated)

In May 2013, France adopted a law allowing gay marriage. The statute confirmed France’ traditional choice of law rule according to which the law of the nationality of each spouse applies to the substantive validity of marriage (Civil Code, Art. 202-1, para. 1). However, in order to avoid confining the new legislation to couples of nationals […]