On 25 February, the ECJ delivered its judgment in case

There is a new book on intellectual property and conflict of laws, written by Sierd J. Schaafsma: Here is the summary: The interface between intellectual property and conflict of laws is a notorious difficult subject. A recent study puts the subject in a new light. In his recently published book, Sierd J. Schaafsma deals with […]

Even though the decision is not really new anymore and the case has been discussed already – at least with regard to certain aspects concerning the temporal scope of Rome II – it might still be worth mentioning since it is the first judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) applying the […]

Recently, the January issue of the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (

The 7th edition of the work Internationales Vertragsrecht edited by Christoph Reithmann and Dieter Martiny has recently been published. The new edition of this well-established book includes in particular the new Rome I Regulation (Regulation (EC) No. 593/2008) and the consequences resulting from the transformation of the Rome Convention into a Community Regulation and encompasses […]