Entries by Ralf Michaels

The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction

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The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. This creates inconsistencies between the scope of application of the Draft Directive and existing jurisdictional law, both on the EU level and on the domestic level, and can lead to an enforcement gap: EU companies may be able to escape […]

Conference Report: Global Law and Sustainable Development; Medellín, Colombia. 26-27 April, 2023

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  (authored by Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm)   Global Law and Sustainable Development. Conference Report. On 26-27 April 2023 at the University of Medellín, Colombia, private international law scholars organised and hosted a conference that pushed the boundaries of the discipline and engaged with interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives around the theme of Global law and Sustainable […]

Jürgen Basedow 1949-2023

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Jürgen Basedow, a giant of private international law (and numerous other disciplines), has died –  suddenly, and completely unexpectedly, on April 6. He was my teacher (though only briefly so in a formal position), my predecessor as director of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute (where he served as director 1997-2017) and my colleague as an […]