Registration open: Australasian Association of Private International Law inaugural conference, Brisbane, Australia, 16-17 April 2025

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Registration is now open for the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association of Private International Law, to be held at the Ship Inn conference centre at Southbank, Brisbane from 16-17 April 2025.

The program features panels on

• Private International Law and Technology;
• Anti-suit and Anti-enforcement Injunctions;
• Private International Law and Climate Change; and
• Prenuptial Agreements.

Attendance at conference sessions can be used for CPD; check local requirements.

Conference fees

Reduced fees apply to members of AAPrIL. You can join the Association at https://aapril.org/membership/

Member (2 days) $110
Member (1 day) $60

Non-member (2 days) $150
Non-member (1 day) $80

Student: Free to attend the conference only.

Conference dinner: $110 for a three course meal and a selection of drinks

Register here

 

Aboute AAPrIL

The Australasian Association of Private International Law (AAPrIL) is a group of people committed to furthering the understanding of private international law in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

AAPrIL was founded in 2024 by private international lawyers from Australia and New Zealand who have known one another for years through engaging with the discipline of private international law, including through conferences of the Journal of Private International Law, meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and numerous other academic activities. The inuagural AAPrIL President is Professor Mary Keyes. The Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of New South Wales.

Bi-Annual Conference of the Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für internationales Verfahrensrecht (27–29 March, Münster)

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The German Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für internationales Verfahrensrecht, an association of German-speaking academics working on questions of international civil procedure law, will be holding its bi-annual conference at the University of Münster on 27–29 March 2025. The event is only open to members of the association.

The full programme can be found here; registration is possible here.

 

Call for Applications: Deutsches Notarinstitut (DNotI)

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The German Notarial Institute (Deutsches Notarinstitut; DNotI), located in Würzburg, is currently looking for lawyers interested in contributing to the Institute’s mission of providing expert advice to German notaries, including in cross-border settings.

The full job advertisement can be found here.

Revue Critique de droit international privé – issue 2024/4

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Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher and doctoral student at Sciences Po Law School)

The fourth issue of the Revue Critique de droit international privé of 2024 will very shortly be released. It contains four articles, eight case notes and many book reviews. In line with the Revue Critique’s recent policy, the doctrinal part will shortly be made available in English on the editor’s website (for registered users and institutions). Read more

Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2025: Abstracts

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The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles:

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Out now: Festschrift für Thomas Rauscher

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Rauscher, formerly a professor of private international law at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and still one of the most prolific commentators on German and European PIL, has been honoured by a Festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The volume, titled “Europeanization of private law”, has 623 pages and is published by CH Beck (Munich). It contains numerous contributions on private international law, comparative law and international civil procedure. The authors come from various countries, including Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States and Vietnam. Most contributions are in German. For further information and a table of contents, please click here.

New issue alert: RabelsZ 89(2005)

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Issue 1/2025 of RabelsZ has just just been released. It contains the contributions to a family law symposium held at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg in June 2024. All content is Open Access: CC BY 4.0 and more articles are available Online First.

 

Anne Röthel, Preface to this family law special, pp. 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1628/rabelsz-2025-0003

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AMEDIP’s upcoming webinar: Private International Law in the Inter-American system: A glance in the light of the 50 anniversary of the CIDIP (27 February 2025 – in Spanish)

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The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) is holding a webinar on Thursday 27 February 2025 at 14:30 (Mexico City time – CST), 21:30 (CET time). The topic of the webinar is ‘Private International Law in the Inter-American system: A glance in the light of the 50 anniversary of the CIDIP’ and will be presented by OAS Director Dante Negro (in Spanish).

CIDIP is the Spanish acronym for the Inter-American Specialized Conferences on Private International Law. For a history of the CIDIP, click here. Read more

Book Launch: Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law – Oxford, March 19, 4pm-6pm

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In 2024, Oxford University Press published Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law, edited by Roxana Banu, Michael S Green, and Ralf Michaels. The book represents the first inter-disciplinary engagement with questions of private international law from a philosophical perspective, covers a wide range of philosophical questions in private international law and brings philosophers in conversation with private international law scholars to demystify the analytical tools of each discipline in relationship to the other. More information on the book, including a table of contents, is here.

Now, Oxford University is organizing a hybrid book launch on March 19, 4pm-6pm. An introduction from the Editors will be followed by a discussion on key themes by Gabriel Encinas, Verónica Ruiz Abu-Nigm,  Robert Stevens, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, and Emmanuel Voyiakis. More information on the event and on how to sign up for physical or virtual participation is here.

Workshop on Cross-border Protection of Cultural Property-Agenda

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Workshop on Cross-border Protection of Cultural Property Agenda

2025.2.28, UTC 8:00 – 12:15 (London Time)

 

 8:00 – 8:05 Opening Remarks
Zheng Tang professor of Law, editor in chief, Chinese Journal of Transnational Law; Associate Dean, Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Global Governance
8:05 – 8:45 Keynote Address
Christa Roodt Senior Lecturer of History of Art, University of Glasgow
Zhengxin Huo Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law
Panel 1: Legal Mechanisms of Cross-Border Cultural Property Protection
8:45 – 9:00 Elena Moustaira The contribution of Postcolonial Theory to the cross-border protection of Indigenous cultural heritage
9:00 – 9:15 Yehya Badr Restitution of stolen foreign cultural property and hurdles in choice of law
9:15 – 9:30 Maggie Fleming Cacot Forfeiture and freezing orders in transborder cultural property litigation
9:30 – 9:50 Commentary and Discussion
Panel 2: Regional Practices and Challenges in Cultural Property Restitution
9:50 – 10:05 Andrzej’s Jakubowski Moving People, Shifting State Borders and the Return of Cultural Property: The Case of Poland
10:05 – 10:20 Miroslaw Michal Sadowski From freedom to restitution (with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the Lusophone community)
10:20 – 10:35 Ekin Omeroglu The Issue of Applicable Law in Disputes Arising from Violations of Private Law Regulations on Cultural Properties: The Case of Turkiye
10:35 – 10:50 Ruida Chen Restitution of cultural property in China: In search of a new paradigm for cross-border cultural property claims
10:50 – 11:10 Commentary and Discussion
Panel 3: Looking to the Past and the Future
11:10 – 11:25 Dabbie De Girolamo The Relevance of ADR for transnational cultural property disputes: A Survey and Analysis of China’s experience
11:25 – 11:40 Andreas Giorgallis Restitution of cultural objects unethically acquired during the colonial era: The intersection of Public and Private International Law
11:40 – 11:55 Evelien Campfens Evolving Legal Models of Restitution
11:55 – 12:15 Commentary and Discussion

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