Entries by Jan von Hein

“Oops, they did it again” – Remarks on the intertemporal application of the recast Insolvency Regulation

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Robert Freitag, Professor for private, European and international law at the University of Erlangen, Germany, has kindly provided us with his following thoughts on the recast Insolvency Regulation. It is already some time since regulation Rome I on the law applicable to contractual obligations was published in the Official Journal. Some dinosaurs of private international […]

Regulatory competition in a post-Brexit EU

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Dr. Chris Thomale, University of Heidelberg, has kindly provided us with the following thoughts on the possible consequences of Brexit for European private international law. Hitherto, academic debate is only starting to appreciate the full ambit and impact a Brexit would have on the European legal landscape. Notably, two important aspects have been neglected, despite […]

Just in Time: A New Volume on the Consequences of Brexit

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Following the United Kingdom’s popular vote to exit the European Union, a very timely book on the various legal, political and economic impacts of Brexit has just been released: “Britain Alone! The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU” (Kluwer Law International 2016), edited by Professor

Reminder: ILA 77th Biennial International Conference 2016

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The International Law Association (ILA) invites you to join the ILA 77th Biennial International Conference 2016 which will take place from 7 to 11 August 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. The main theme of the conference will be ‘International Law and State Practice: Is there a North – South Divide?’ […]

Out now: Furrer/Markus/Pretelli (eds.), The Challenges of European Civil Procedural Law for Lugano and Third States (2016)

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The new 2007 Lugano Convention, establishing parallelism with the Brussels I Regulation (Reg. 44/2001), had just entered into force in Switzerland in 2010 when it faced a new challenge in the form of the Recast Regulation (Reg. 1215/2012). Therefore, in 2014, CIVPRO (University of Bern), CCR (University of Luzern) and the Swiss Institute for Comparative […]

Reminder – Call for Papers – Young PIL Scholars’ Conference

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This post has kindly been provided by Dr. Susanne Gössl, LL.M. “This post is meant to remind that the deadline for applications for the Young PIL Scholars’ Conference in Bonn, Germany, in April 2017 is approaching. We accept applications of junior researchers to present a paper until 30 June 2016. The topic is “Politics and […]