Entries by Marta Requejo

Investor Protection and Issuer Confidence after Kolassa

By Matteo Gargantini, Senior Research Fellow MPI Luxembourg The decision rendered by the ECJ in Kolassa (Case C-375/13) offers a good opportunity to assess the European rules on jurisdiction from the point of view of investor protection and issuer confidence. A first comment on Kolassa has already been published on this Blog by Professor Matthias […]

ECtHR on SAS v. France. A Comment.

Multiculturalism is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Minority but deeply rooted practices with a potential to bring social unrest to host countries – as may be, in our Western societies, the use of the full Islamic veil- raise  questions to which law may answer with tolerance or reject with incomprehension and hostility. […]

Funded PhD Positions/Call for Applications

The International Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law (IMPRS-SDR) is a doctoral school located in Heidelberg (Germany) and Luxembourg. Founded in 2009, the Research School’s aim is to examine and analyse different mechanisms for solving international disputes. The participating institutions are the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and […]

La Ley Unión Europea, Nº 22 (January 2015)

Number 22 of the Spanish periodical La Ley-Unión Europea (January 2015) has just been released. You will find therein: Under the heading Doctrina An article by Prof. Jiménez Blanco (University of Oviedo), on “social tourism”, entitled “Derecho de residencia en la Unión Europea y turismo social”. Abstract: The judgment of the ECJ of 11 November […]

Is the Shevill Doctrine Still Up to Date? Some Further Thoughts on CJEU’s Judgment in Hejduk (C-441/13)

By Kristina Sirakova. Kristina is currently a research fellow at the MPI Luxembourg. In this post she takes up again the CJEU’s Hejduk case and provides her (to my mind, quite interesting)  insights into the outcome.    After Jonas Steinle commented on the judgment from a wider perspective, the CJEU’s Hejduk case is to be addressed with regard to its ambiguous […]