Entries by Jan von Hein

A step in the right direction, but nothing more – A critical note on the Draft Directive on mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence

/in /by

Written by Bastian Brunk, research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Comparative and Private International Law at the University of Freiburg.   In April of 2020, EU Commissioner Didier Reynders announced plans for a legislative initiative that would introduce EU-wide mandatory human rights due diligence requirements for […]

Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2020: Abstracts

/in /by

The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)“ features the following articles:   D. Coester-Waltjen: Some Thoughts on Recital 7 Rome I Regulation and a Consistent and Systematic Interpretation of Jurisdictional and Choice of Law Rules. Decisions of the ECJ in recent years have cast some new light on recital 7 […]

The end of fostering outdated injustice to children born outside marriage through reparation of Nazi-expatriation acts: Ruling of the German Constitutional Court of 20 May 2020 (2 BvR 2628/18)

/in /by

Marie-Luisa Loheide is a doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg who writes her dissertation about the relationship between the status of natural persons in public and private international law. She has kindly provided us with her thoughts on a recent ruling by the German Constitutional Court. According to Article 116 para. 2 of the […]

Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2020: Abstracts

/in /by

The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)“ features the following articles: E. Schollmeyer: The effect of the entry in the domestic register is governed by foreign law: Will the new rules on cross-border divisions work? One of the most inventive conflict-of-law rules that secondary law of the European Union has […]

Out Now: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 119 (2020) No. 2 containing the Contributions to the German IC2BE Conference in Freiburg

/in /by

On 10–11 October 2019, the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg (Germany) hosted the final conference of the German branch in the framework of the research project “Informed Choices in Cross-Border Enforcement” (IC2BE). Funded by the Justice Program (2014-2020) of the European Commission, the project aimed to assess the working in practice of the “second generation” of EU […]