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Towards an EU external strategy against early and forced marriages
/in News/by Jan von HeinThe Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament has, on 18 April 2018, adopted an opinion entitled “Towards an EU external strategy against early and forced marriages – next steps” (2017/2275(INI), PE616.622v03-00). The Committee stresses that “child, early and forced marriage is a violation of the human rights enshrined in international […]
International Conference: the New Hungarian Arbitration Act – Views from Hungary and Abroad
/in News/by Jan von HeinThe Department of Legal Studies of the Central European University (
Out Now: Arbitrability of Company Law Disputes in Central and Eastern Europe
/1 Comment/in News/by Jan von HeinThe Societas – Central and Eastern European Company Law Research Network organised a comparative law conference on October 20, 2017 on the interesting and complex issue of arbitrability in company law disputes (see our previous post
The Supreme Court deals the death blow to US Human Rights Litigation
/1 Comment/in Views/by Jan von HeinWritten by Bastian Brunk, research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute for Comparative and Private International Law at the University of Freiburg (Germany) On April 24, the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision in Jesner v Arab Bank (available
No handshake, no citizenship – but with a second wife, everything’s fine?
/2 Comments/in Views/by Jan von HeinTwo recent judgments of European courts have highlighted the difficulty in finding the right balance between the cultural assimilation of Muslim immigrants demanded by national laws on citizenship and the necessary degree of tolerance towards foreign laws and customs. In a widely reported
International Law Association: Biennial Conference in Sydney and Annual Meeting of the German Branch
/in News/by Jan von HeinIn 2018, the Australian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) will be hosting the biennial ILA conference. The conference, which is being held in Sydney, Australia, from 19-24 August 2018, is a major international event that will bring together hundreds of judges, academics, practitioners and officials of governments and international organisations from all around […]
The CJEU settles the issue of characterising the surviving spouse’s share of the estate in the context of the Succession Regulation
/in Views/by Jan von HeinIt has not been yet noted on this blog that the CJEU has recently settled a classic problem of characterisation that has plagued German courts and academics for decades (CJEU, 1 March 2018 – C-558/16, Mahnkopf, ECLI:EU:C:2018:138). The German statutory regime of matrimonial property is a community of accrued gains, i.e. that each spouse keeps […]
On the way towards a representative action for the protection of the collective interests of consumers in the EU
/in News/by Jan von HeinToday, the EU Commission presented its long awaited proposal for a directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers (COM (2018) 184/3). The proposal and other related documents are available
The forthcoming Volume of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law
/1 Comment/in News/by Jan von HeinBéligh Elbalti, Associate Professor at Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics, has kindly informed us that the forthcoming volume of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 60, 2017) will feature the following articles and case notes relating to private international law.