Entries by Ralf Michaels

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

  (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

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 […]