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Out Now: Fainess – Justice – Equity – Festschrift für Reinhold Geimer zum 80. Geburtstag
/in /by Jan von HeinOn the occasion of his eightieth birthday on 30 July 2017, colleagues and friends have dedicated a liber amicorum to Professor Dr. Reinhold Geimer (University of Munich), who, as a Bavarian notary, is not only a highly respected legal practitioner, but also one of Germany’s most prolific and influential academic writers on international civil procedure. […]
Global Forum on Private International Law, Wuhan (China), 22 to 23 September 2017
/in /by Jan von HeinThe year 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of China’s joining of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (
Now on Video: Paris, 12 May 2017 –Symposium on the Recast of the Brussels IIbis Regulation
/in /by Jan von HeinOn Friday, 12 May 2017, Professor Sabine Corneloup and Alexandre Boiché organized a symposium on the recast of the Brussels IIbis Regulation in Paris (see our previous post
Job vacancy: Ph.D. Candidate and Fellow in Private International Law at the University of Cologne
/in /by Jan von HeinThe Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, University of Cologne, Germany invites applications for a Ph.D. Candidate and Fellow with excellent English language skills, starting at the earliest possible date with 19,92 weekly working hours (50% position). The contract will first be limited to one year with an option to be extended. Payment is […]
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2017: Abstracts
/in /by Jan von HeinThe latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)“ features the following articles: C. Kohler: Limits of mutual trust in the European judicial area: the judgment of the ECtHR in Avotin?š v. Latvia In Avoti?š v. Latvia the European Court of Human Rights opposes the consequences of the principle of mutual trust […]
The Applicability of the Alien Tort Statute to Human Rights Violations by Private Corporations
/in /by Jan von HeinHannah Dittmers, LL.M. candidate at the University of Michigan (USA) and doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg (Germany), has just published an interesting paper on recent developments concerning corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute in the Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA). On April 3rd 2017, the New York Times published an […]
International Law Association: New Website and Annual Meeting of the German Branch
/in /by Jan von HeinThe International Law Association (ILA) has a new website (please click
Pay Day – The German Federal Labour Court Gives its Final Ruling on Foreign Mandatory Rules in the Nikiforidis Case
/in /by Jan von HeinOn February 25, 2015, the German Federal Labour Court had referred questions relating to the interpretation of Art. 9 Rome I to the CJEU (see
Now Available in English: “The Disastrous Brexit Dinner”
/2 Comments/in /by Jan von HeinThe recent report by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) on Jean-Claude Juncker’s dinner with British PM Theresa May has already triggered a lively political debate on both sides of the channel. For those not fluent in German, it is perhaps welcome that the FAS has taken the rather unusual step of publishing the […]