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).
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The Hidden Treasure Trove of Conflicts of Law: the Case Law of the Mixed Courts of the Colonial Era
December 15, 2021 /7 Comments/in Views /by Thalia KrugerGuest post by Willem Theus, PhD Researcher (KULeuven, cotutelle with UCLouvain) The history of private international law (or ‘conflict of laws’) is incomplete. Private international law textbooks have always referred to the essentials of the history of our discipline.
XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (2020/2021) published
December 13, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerThanks to Ilaria Pretelli for the tip-off. The XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (2020/2021) has been released. It contains articles on the most important innovations in multilateral and national private international law by authors from all over the world. The readers will find an analysis on cross-border mobility of union citizens and continuity […]
Pax Moot 2022 launched!
November 23, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerThe Pax Moot Court competition of 2022 has been launched! This is the Borrás round – in memory of the great Private International Law scholar Alegría Borrás of Barcelona. The facts of the case, the rules and the schedule are available at
Which law governs disputes involving corporations?
October 29, 2021 in Views /by Thalia KrugerGuest post by Dr
Is there a European Union private international law system?” in Lyon, on November 17, 18 and 19, 2021
October 29, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerThe Research Center on Private International Law of the University Jean Moulin Lyon III (EDIEC – EA 4185) is organizing a 3-day conference (dir. sc. Ludovic Pailler et Cyril Nourissat). The ambitious
EAF Call for Papers: The Emerging New Landscape of European Restructuring and Insolvency
October 24, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerThe INSOL Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) is inviting submission for its 17th annual conference, taking place from 2-3 March 2022 in Dublin (Ireland). Expressions of interest are invited for the delivery of research papers within the overall academic conference’s theme: “The Emerging New Landscape of European Restructuring and Insolvency” The theme is intended to focus […]
Tulane/ACTEC Symposium on Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates
October 24, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerTulane University School of Law and
PhD Book Club – European Private International Law in a Digital World 8 December 2021
October 24, 2021 in News /by Thalia KrugerUnder the auspices of the project “Time to Become Digital in Law” (
Call for Abstracts on Transnational Dispute Resolution in an increasingly digitalized world.
September 24, 2021 in News, Online Symposium /by Thalia KrugerThe call for abstracts for the ‘Transnational Dispute Resolution in an Increasingly Digitalized World’ conference is now open until 1 December 2021. This online conference will be hosted by the Center for the Future of Dispute Resolution at Ghent University on Thursday 24 March 2022. The increased digitalization in the field dispute resolution, which received […]