Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

First Issue of 2010’s Revue Critique de Droit International Privé

The last issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé was just released. It contains three articles and several casenotes. The first article is a survey of judicial cooperation within the European Union in civil matters (La coopération judiciaire en matière civile dans l’Union européenne: bilan et perspectives). It is authored by Fernando Paulino […]

First Issue of 2010’s ERA Forum

The first issue of ERA Forum for 2010 was released recently. It includes several articles dealing with various aspects of European private law, either in English, German or French. Some discuss more specifically topics of private international law. Here is the relevant part of the

Second Issue of 2010’s Journal du Droit International

The second issue of French Journal du droit international (Clunet) for 2010 was just released. It includes four articles and several casenotes. Remarkably, one of the articles is actually written in English. It discusses Company mobility through cross-border transfers of registered offices within the European Union – A new challenge for French law. The authors […]

Abusive Forum Shopping?

On April 28th, 2010, the Paris Court of Appeal dismissed the claim of Vivendi that its shareholders had abused their right to sue by initiating a class action against the company in New York, and thus dismissed the appeal lodged by Vivendi against

The New Chinese Tort Law: Conflict Rules on Tort Untouched

I am grateful to Fang Xiao, a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Renmin University School of Law in Beijing, for contributing this report. The Tort Law of the People’s Republic of China was adopted at the 12th session of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on December 26, 2009 and promulgated on […]