Entries by Ralf Michaels

Deadline Extended! The Private Side of Transforming the World – UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law

Outline and Call for Papers   Update! The planned public conference has to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now take place at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg on September 9-11 2021, one year later than originally announced. On September 10-11 2020, we will instead hold a  closed online workshop among […]

Who Owns France.com?

France is a state. France.com, by contrast, is a domain name, and it was, until recently, owned not by the French state but instead by a Californian company, France.com, Inc. That conflict is now being litigated in a fascinating dispute  reminiscent of the early days of the internet. In those early days, in 1994 to […]