Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot on the US Supreme Court case of Obb Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs
Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot has placed the following paper on SSRN:
About Thalia Kruger
Thalia Kruger obtained her BA and LLB degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Thereafter she completed her PHD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium on “Civil jurisdiction rules in the EU and their impact on third States” (subsequently published by Oxford University Press under the same title). While working on her PHD, she was a teaching and research assistant at the Law Faculty’s Institute for Private International Law where she tutored and lectured on various aspects of private international law and international business law. She has also participated in a research project funded by the European Commission on “International Civil litigation in Europe and relations with third States”.
Thalia subsequently worked at the Flemish Centre for Minorities where she give legal advice on Private International Law in family matters and then conducted EU funded research on international child abduction for Child Focus, an NGO working with sexually exploited and disappeared children.
Thalia is currently senior lecturer in Private International Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town (South Africa).
Entries by Thalia Kruger
Brussels IIbis recast
/in /by Thalia KrugerThe European Commission today published the
EUPILLAR conference on Cross-Border Litigation Conference, London, 16-17 June
/4 Comments/in /by Thalia KrugerThe “Cross-Border Litigation in Europe” conference is organised by the Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Private International Law, the University of Aberdeen. The conference is being held within the framework of a research project which is funded by the European Commission Civil Justice Programme. The event will take place in […]
New Study on the Evidentiary Effects of Authentic Instruments & Succession
/1 Comment/in /by Thalia KrugerThe evidentiary effects of authentic acts in the Member States of the European Union, in the context of successions This study was conducted in 25 EU Member States, under the coordination of the Centre for Private International Law at the University Aberdeen. It additionally includes input from the notariats of the CNUE. It sets out the typical […]
New publication on Kiobel and human rights litigation
/in /by Thalia KrugerMaria Chiara Marullo and Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot have published a paper on “TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATIONS. KIOBEL’S TOUCH AND CONCERN: A TEST UNDER CONSTRUCTION.” The abstract reads: In recent years the international debate on Transnational Human Rights Litigation has mainly focused, although not exclusively, on the role of the Alien Tort Claims Act as a way […]
Conference on the Hague Principles on Choice of Law, Lucerne 8-9 September 2016
/in /by Thalia KrugerThe Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the University of Lucerne are organising a conference “Towards a Global Framework for International Commercial Transactions: Implementing the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts” in Lucerne on 8-9 September 2016. The purpose of this conference is to present the impact and prospects […]
Report on ERA conference on Recent case law of the ECtHRs in Family law matters
/in /by Thalia KrugerGuest post by Asma Alouane, PhD candidate at Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) University on Private international law to the test of the right to respect for private and family life. On February 11 and 12 2016, the Academy of European law (ERA) hosted in Strasburg a conference on Recent Case law of the European Court of […]
Article: Marriage for All and International Public Policy
/in /by Thalia KrugerProfessor Victoria Camarero Suarez published an article on marriage for all and international public policy in the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Eclesiástico del Estado (no. 40/2016), a Spanish Journal on the Law of Church and State. Here is the English abstract: In this work, in the first place, some general considerations are carried out, in […]
Commentary on Succession Regulation Bonomi and Wautelet
/in /by Thalia KrugerA second edition of the commentary of the Succession Regulation written by Andrea Bonomi and Patrick Wautelet has just been published. As with the first edition, the book is conceived as a commentary, article by article, of the Regulation. Written in French it provides in more than 1.000 pages a comprehensive analysis of the Regulation […]
New publications: Practical Handbooks on the Operation of the Service and Evidence Conventions
/in /by Thalia KrugerThe Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law has just published two Practical Handbooks: * Practical Handbook on the Operation of the Service Convention (4th edition); * Practical Handbook on the Operation of the Evidence Convention (3rd edition). Both publications are for sale in e-Book format on the Hague Conference website