Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

The Living Dead Convention

Reports of the death of the 1968 Brussels Convention have been greatly exaggerated. In some parts of Europe, it is still possible to enjoy the application of old Article 5.1 of the Convention and to determine the place of performance of the obligation in question for a basic sale of goods. One such example is […]

P.R. China’s First Statute on Choice of Law

I am grateful to XIAO Fang, Post-doctoral fellow and lecturer at Remnin University Law School, for contributing this report. The Statute on the Application of Laws over Foreign-Related Civil Relations of the People’s Republic of China was adopted at the 17th Session of the Permanent Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress of the People’s […]