by Thalia Kruger
on January 22, 2020
The Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters will form the object of a conference (in English) scheduled to take place on 23 April 2020 at the Catholic University of Milan.
Speakers include
Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg), Elena D’Alessandro (University of
Turin), Francisco Garcimartín Alférez (Autonomous University of Madrid), Marko
Jovanovic (University of Belgrade), Antonio Leandro (University of Bari) and
Matthias Weller (University of Bonn). Fausto Pocar (University of Milan) will
chair the conference while Luca Radicati di Brozolo (Catholic University of
Milan) will offer some concluding remarks. Read more...
by Matthias Weller
on January 21, 2020
Speaker: Professor Alex Mills (Faculty of Laws, UCL)
Chair: Professor Campbell McLachlan QC (Victoria University Wellington)
Date and time: 06 February 2020, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Bentham House, UCL Laws, London, WC1H 0EG, United Kingdom
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by Matthias Weller
on January 20, 2020
The event is free to attend. The following URL provides full information and registration details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-development-of-private-international-law-in-the-uk-post-brexit-tickets-89779245139
Date: Friday 28th February 2020, 9am-5pm.
Location: Queen Mary
University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Room 3.1, London, WC2A 3JB
This is the first of four public AHRC
workshops on Private International Law after Brexit from global, European,
Commonwealth and intra-UK perspectives.
About the event
With Brexit having taken place on 31 January
2020 this workshop comes at an ideal time to focus on how private international
law in the UK should develop once the implementation period for the UK leaving
the EU has finished (which under UK law should be on 31 December 2020). Several
eminent speakers will address the issue from four key perspectives: Read more...
by Saloni Khanderia
on January 17, 2020
By Tasha Joseph
The
confusion between ‘place’, ‘seat’ and ‘venue’ in International Commercial
Arbitration cases was put to rest in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court
in Union of India v. Hardy Explorations And Production(India) Inc.1. The
decision was given by a three-judge bench which unanimously passed the decision
that ‘seat’, ‘venue’ and ‘place’ did not signify the same meaning and could not
be used interchangeably. Instead, the three terms denote different meanings and
in the absence of express provision for any of the same, there were tests to be
met in order to determine the actual ‘place’, ‘venue’ and ‘seat’. Read more...
by Thalia Kruger
on January 17, 2020
Teams are invited to register for the PAX Moot, Asser Round 2020. Registration will be possible until March 30th. However we do advise teams to register as soon as possible. The registration fee is 100 Euros per team.
The moot court competition comprises a written round and oral round. For the written round each team will be required to submit a written assignment as requested by the case (for details, see Rules and Procedures). The oral round will be scheduled as a 2 full-day event on 28-29 May 2020, preceded by a welcoming event for all teams on 27 May (evening). The first day of the competition (general rounds) will be held at the University of Antwerp. On the second day, the participating teams will be invited to the EU Commission in Brussels, where the semi-finals and final rounds will be held. Read more...
by Matthias Weller
on January 17, 2020
The Conference
represents the final event of the
JUDGTRUST Project (2018-2020), funded by the Justice Programme of
the European Union (2014-2020). The objective of the Project is to
identify best practices and to provide guidelines in the
interpretation and application of Regulation 1215/2012 (BI-bis).
The JUDGTRUST Project is coordinated by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut
and carried out in partnership with the University of Hamburg, the
University of Antwerp and the Internationaal Juridisch Instituut.
The Conference will
host panels on, inter alia,
the scope of application, relationship with other instruments, rules
on jurisdiction, provisional measures, as well as enforcement and
recognition of foreign judgments. Additionally, the key findings from
the National Reports of the EU Member States will be presented. It
aims to bring together academics, policy makers and legal
practitioners. It will take place on Thursday 24 September 2020 at
the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague. Read more...
by Giesela Ruehl
on January 14, 2020
The Graduate Programm “Dynamic Integration” at the Faculty of Law of Humboldt-University Berlin wishes to fill two PhD positions (fellowships), funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Applications from private (international) lawyers are especially welcomed.
For more information see here.
by Matthias Weller
on January 14, 2020
Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court should rule that the victims of the sinking of a ship flying the Panamanian flag can bring an action for damages under the Brussels I Regulation as a “civil and commercial matter” in the sense of Article 1 before the Italian courts against the Italian bodies which classified and certified that ship.
At para. 47, the Opinion deals with the effect of customary international law on the scope ratione materiae of the Brussels I Regulation and holds: Read more...
by Mayela Celis
on January 13, 2020
Written by Frédéric Breger, Legal Officer at
the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
(HCCH)
Volume 24 of the Judges’ Newsletter, the HCCH
publication on international child protection, is now available on the HCCH
website! This Volume features a Special Focus on “Urgent Measures of
Protection” as provided for under Article 11 of the HCCH
1996 Child Protection Convention. Article 11 gives jurisdiction to the
authorities of a Contracting Party where the child is found present – albeit
not habitually resident – to take measures of protection for that child in
cases of urgency. You will find in particular contributions from judges on case
law rendered under Article 11 of the 1996 HCCH Child Protection Convention in
various jurisdictions. This Volume is available in English only at the moment;
the French version will be published in due course. Read more...
by Charles Kotuby
on January 5, 2020
The Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases for 2019, now in its 33rd year, has been posted on SSRN. A summary of the contents is reproduced below. If you are interested in the Survey, you can download it here
Here is the abstract:
This is the Thirty-Third Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It was written at the request of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws. It is intended as a service to fellow teachers and to students of conflicts law, both inside and outside of the United States. Its purpose remains the same as it has been in the previous 32 years: to inform, rather than to advocate. Read more...
