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The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction
/2 Comments/in Views/by Ralf MichaelsThe 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
/in News/by Ralf Michaels(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 […]
Virtual Workshop (in German) on July 4: Robert Freitag on The Overdue Reform of the International Law on Names in Germany
/in News/by Ralf MichaelsOn Tuesday, July 4, 2023, the
German professors comment on the Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Parenthood
/in News/by Ralf MichaelsDiscussion on the
Venezuela: Negative choice and UNIDROIT Principles in determining Law applicable to bill of exchange
/in News/by Ralf Michaelsby Claudia Madrid Martínez On 17 March 2023, the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice issued a
Jürgen Basedow 1949-2023
/in News/by Ralf MichaelsJürgen 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 […]