Entries by Marta Requejo

Private International Law and Policies of Migration Law (Paper on SSRN)

Professor Veerle Van Den Eeckhout, who teaches private international law at the Universities of Antwerp and of Leiden, has just published an article entitled “Private International Law Questions that Arise in the Relation between Migration Law (in the Broad Sense of the Word) and Family Law: Subjection of PIL to Policies of Migration Law?” on […]

European Parliament Conference on Civil Law and Justice

A workshop on civil law and justice will take place next Wednesday, 23 January, at the European Parliament, entitled “Do EU citizens enjoy free movement“. The opening panel will present the latest developments in the case-law of the Court of Justice on civil law, with a special focus on EU citizenship; the Irish Presidency planning for […]

Academic Association for International Procedural Law (Meeting)

A meeting of the Academic Association for International Procedural Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht) will take place from Wednesday 20 to Saturday 23 March 2013 in Passau (Germany) and Linz (Austria). Apart from the working sessions, dedicated to current issues of recognition of foreign judgments and to the European rules on cross-border debt recovery, the participants will also have the […]

Cross-Border Road Accidents Claims (Monograph)

Angel Espiniella Menéndez, lecturer of Private International Law at the University of Oviedo, has just published the book “Las reclamaciones derivadas de accidentes de circulación por carretera transfronterizos” (Claims arising from Cross Border Road Accidents), which is number 185 in the Collection “Cuadernos de la Fundación Mapfre”.  Based on the legal theory of obligations and […]

Regulation (EU) No 1259/2010 in Lithuania

The participation of Lithuania in enhanced cooperation in the area of the law applicable to divorce and legal separation has been confirmed by the Commission (see Decision of 21 November 2012, OJ L, 323, 22 .11.2012). The Regulation, which will enter into force in Lithuania as from tomorrow, shall apply from 22 May 2014.

A New Title on Mediation: Civil and Commercial Mediation in Europe

   Mediation is becoming an increasingly important tool for resolving civil and commercial disputes. Although it has been long since known in many legal systems, in recent years it has received an important boost and is currently one of the most topical issues in the field of dispute resolution. The European Directive 2008/52/EC of the […]