Entries by Jan von Hein

Upcoming international conference at the Academy of European Law: “How to handle international commercial cases – Hands-on experience and current trends”

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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. This conference will bring together top experts in international commercial litigation who will […]

Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 3/2015: Abstracts

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The latest issue of the “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)” features the following articles: Jochen Hoffmann, “Button-click” Confirmation and Cross Border Contract Conclusion Section 312j paragraph 3 and 4 of the German Civil Code (BGB) addresses and secures effective consumer protection with regard to the issue of internet-related “cost traps”. Cost traps are […]

Johannes Schmidt on Legal Certainty in European Civil Procedure Law

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Johannes Schmidt’s doctoral thesis on “Legal Certainty in European Civil Procedure Law. An Analysis of ECJ Judgments Regarding the Brussels Convention and the Brussels I Regulation.” (Rechtssicherheit im europäischen Zivilverfahrensrecht – Eine Analyse der Entscheidungen des EuGH zum EuGVÜ und der EuGVVO; Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2015) has just been published in German. The doctoral dissertation […]

128th Conference of the Private International Law Association of Japan (2015)

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The Private International Law Association of Japan will hold its 128th conference on Saturday, June 6, and Sunday, June 7, 2015, at the Campus of Waseda University, Tokyo. One of the sessions includes a symposium on “Regional Economic Integration and Private International Law”. The conference programme and further information are available

Fritz Sturm 13 June 1929 – 14 March 2015

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We just received the sad news that Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Fritz Sturm passed away on 14 March 2015. Fritz Sturm was professor emeritus at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an internationally renowned expert on private international law, comparative law and Roman law. His main fields of research were international family law and the […]

Good news: Greeks and Germans talking to each other about European economic law

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Klaus J. Hopt, Director emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, and Dimitris Tzouganatos, Professor of Law at the National University of Athens, have edited a conference volume (in German) on “The New Challenges Facing European Economic Law. With Contributions from Germany and Greece” (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2014). The book, which […]