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On 24 October 2006, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper on "Improving the efficiency of the enforcement of judgements in the European Union: the attachment of bank accounts" (COM(2006) 618 final). The European Commission's newsroom website states: The problems of cross-border debt recovery is an obstacle to the free circulation of payment orders within […]
Yoav Oestreicher (Bar Ilan University) has posted an article on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) entitled, "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Intellectual Property Judgments: Analysis and Guidelines for a New International Convention". The abstract reads: This dissertation attempts to analyze the reasons for the continuing failure of the international community to agree on a […]
The EU Council has released its decision on the accession of the Community to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (see our earlier note
The American Branch's 2006 International Law Weekend 2006 will be held on Thursday-Saturday, October 26-28, 2006, at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (42 West 44th St, New York, NY). The theme this year is "The Evolving World of International Law." The panels on private international law focus on the […]
The new issue of the Journal of Private International Law Volume 2, Number 2 (October 2006), will be published shortly. The contents are (click on the links below to view the abstract): EU Law as Private International Law? Reconceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested-Rights Theory by Ralf Michaels (Associate Professor, Duke University School of Law)
With the official launch reception only a couple of weeks away, the latest edition of the one of the world's foremost authorities on private international law is now available for purchase. First published in 1896, Dicey, Morris & Collins, The Conflict of Laws is in its 14th edition. The editors of this seminal work are: […]
A comparative article on international prenuptial agreements – focused on the failure of English courts to enforce prenuptial agreements – will be published in the forthcoming issue of
Richard Taylor (DLA Piper) has written a short summary in the latest issue of the Law Society Gazette, discussing the response by the European Court of Justice, in Roche Nederland BV v Primus (C-539/03) and in Gesellschaft fur Antriebstechnik mbH & Co KG (GAT) v Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG (LuK) (C-4/03), to attempts by […]
The most significant reform of Japanese private international law for more than a century has been completed with the enactment of a new Act. The new Act, Ho no Tekiyo ni Kansuru Tsusoku Ho, will come into effect on 1st January 2007. The reform is far-reaching and covers, inter alia, contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and assignment of […]