Coming soon: Yearbook of Private International Law Vol. XVI (2014/2015)
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Entries by Jan von Hein
Out Now: Reithmann/Martiny on International Contract Law
/in /by Jan von HeinDr. Christoph Reithmann and Professor Dr. Dieter Martiny (editors) have just published a new edition of their standard treatise on international contract law: Internationales Vertragsrecht – Das internationale Privatrecht der Schuldverträge, 8th. ed., Cologne (Dr. Otto Schmidt) 2015. This 2348-pages strong volume is universally acknowledged as one of the leading works on international contract law […]
Reminder: Academy of European Law – “How to handle international commercial cases – Hands-on experience and current trends”
/in /by Jan von HeinThis post is meant to remind our readers that the Academy of European Law (ERA) will host an international conference on recent experience and current trends in international commercial litigation, with a special focus on European private international law. The event will take place in Trier (Germany), on 8-9 October 2015. While registration will still […]
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2015: Abstracts
/in /by Jan von HeinThe latest issue of the “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)” features the following articles: Christoph Benicke, Die Anknüpfung der Adoption durch Lebenspartner in Art. 22 Abs. 1 S. 3 EGBGB In Germany, step child adoption by the partner of a same sex civil union (registered partnership) has been legal since 2004, but was […]
Beaumont and Holliday on “Habitual Residence” in Child Abduction Cases
/in /by Jan von HeinPaul Beaumont, Professor of European Union and Private International Law and Director of the Centre for Private International Law, University of Aberdeen (Scotland/UK), and Jayne Holliday, Research Assistant and Secretary of this Centre, have published an insightful and carefully researched new working paper on “Recent Developments on the Meaning of ‘Habitual Residence’ in Alleged Child […]
M. E. Burge on Party Autonomy and Legal Culture
/in /by Jan von HeinMark Edwin Burge, Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law, has published a highly interesting article on the relationship between party autonomy and legal culture, providing new insights on the success (or failure) of legal transplants in choice of law: “Too Clever by Half: Reflections on Perception, Legitimacy, and Choice of Law […]
Out Now: Basedow on “The Law of Open Societies – Private Ordering and Public Regulation in the Conflict of Laws”
/in /by Jan von HeinProf. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard), Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, has published a revised and updated version of the widely read and well-received lectures given by the author during the 2012 summer courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (on the first […]
The Trust Re-visited – The Hague Convention 30 Years After
/in /by Jan von HeinThe Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (
Dornis on the Local Data Theory in European Private International Law
/in /by Jan von HeinProfessor Dr. Tim W. Dornis, who teaches law at the
Out now: The Counterclaim in the Civil Procedural Law of the European Union and its Member States
/in /by Jan von HeinDr. Agnieszka Okonska, LL.M. (Leipzig), has just published a monumental comparative study on “The Counterclaim in the Civil Procedural Law of the European Union and its Member States” (Die Widerklage im Zivilprozessrecht der Europäischen Union und ihrer Mitgliedstaaten, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2015, XLVI, 672 pages; Veröffentlichungen zum Verfahrensrecht Vol. 118, € 99.00). The laws on civil procedure of all […]