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“Victory or Defeat: Predictability vs. Confidentiality” – A Research Project of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) – 3 March 2022, 12 to 2 pm (Bonn time)
/in News/by Matthias WellerArbitral proceedings are confidential, and this confidentiality is one of the biggest assets of arbitration. Arbitral awards usually must not be published without prior consent of the parties. However, as we all know, this confidentiality makes it difficult for parties to predict outcomes in a concrete case and the public is kept from learning about […]
Universidad Central de Venezuela: Call for Papers for the Private International Law and Comparative Law Master’s Program’s Yearbook
/in News/by Matthias Wellerby José Antonio Briceño Laborí, Professor of Private International Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launching, the Master’s Program in Private International Law and Comparative Law is inviting all authors that would like to publish a paper in the fourth edition of […]
Out now: Stavroula Angoura, The Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators in International Commercial Arbitration
/in News/by Matthias WellerImpartiality is key to any kind of production of justice and probably one of the very few principles of “justice” recognized universally, see e.g. Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, Chapter 5: “Impartiality and Objectivity”, pp. 114 et seq. with references also to non-Western traditions, see also e.g. Leviticus 19:15 (New International Version): “Do not […]
Nudging in Private International Law: The Design of Connecting Factors in Light of Behavioural Economics
/in News/by Matthias WellerDr Johannes Ungerer (Lecturer, University of Oxford) Cross-border disputes are particularly complex due to the challenges involved in understanding and deciding on the applicable law and international jurisdiction. Contrary to this reality, it is commonly assumed that all private parties are capable of rational choices in pursuit of efficiency, which however disregards the fact that […]
AG Maciej Szpunar on the interpretation of the ESR in relation to cross-border declarations of waiver of succession and on substitution and characterisation, Opinion of 20 January 2022, C-617/20 – T.N. et al. ./. E.G.
/in Views/by Matthias WellerYesterday, AG Maciej Szpunar delivered an Opinion (a
EUI Conference on Appellate Review and Rule of Law In International Trade and Investment Law
/in News/by Matthias WellerTommorow, 20 January 2022, the Department of Law of the European University Institute organizes a Conference on Appellate Review and Rule of Law In International Trade and Investment Law. The event will take place in a hybrid format that may be attended online via zoom or offline in person at the Badia Fiesolana-Refettorio. The organzizers […]
Save the Date: German Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law 2023
/in News/by Matthias WellerFollowing successful conferences in Bonn, Würzburg and Hamburg, please save the date for the 4th German-speaking Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law, which will take place on 23 and 24 February 2023 at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. The theme of the conference will be Deference to the foreign – empty phrase or […]