The first edition of the EFFORTS Newsletter is here!
EFFORTS (Towards more EFfective enFORcemenT of claimS in civil and commercial matters within the EU) is an EU-funded Project conducted by the University of Milan (coord.), the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, the University of Heidelberg, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Zagreb, and the University of Vilnius.
The EFFORTS Project tackles, notably, the Brussels Ibis Regulation and the Regulations on the European Enforcement Order, the European Small Claims Procedure, the European Payment Order, and the European Account Preservation Order. By investigating the implementation of these Regulations in the national procedural law of, respectively, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Luxembourg, the Project aims at enhancing the enforcement of claims through more efficient procedures, case management, and cooperation in cross-border disputes.
The first edition of the EFFORTS Newsletter was just issued and is available here.
Project JUST-JCOO-AG-2019-881802
With financial support from the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union
HCCH Internship Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for three- to six-month legal internships at our Permanent Bureau in The Hague, for the period from July to December 2021.
Interns work with our legal teams in the areas of Family and Child Protection Law, Legal Cooperation, Dispute Resolution, Commercial and Financial Law. It’s a great way to gain practical experience, deepen your knowledge of private international law, and to understand how the HCCH functions.
Due to the current global situation and the associated travel limitations and restrictions, the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH may consider the possibility that internships be carried out remotely. Interns may also be eligible for a monthly stipend.
We encourage you to share this opportunity with law students and graduates within your networks.
Applications should be submitted by 2 April 2021. For more information, please visit the Internships section of the HCCH website.
This post is published by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference of Private International Law (HCCH).
Workshop Gender and Private International Law (GaP) May 6-7, 2021
The transdisciplinary research project on gender and private international law, which held its kickoff meeting in November 2019 followed by a reading group in Hamburg, will now hold its (postponed) big workshop on May 6-7, 2021. Over the past two years we have worked to create a transdisciplinary field of study at the intersection of feminist and gender studies and private international law. The workshop will establish cross-teaching between disciplines. It will consist of discussion groups covering the pressing topics of transnational surrogacy, the interaction between Western and Islamic family law, and the transnational regulation of queer families. Cyra Choudhury (Florida International University), Susanne Gössl (Kiel), Vanja Hamzic (SOAS London), Elisabeth Holzleithner (Vienna), Rosario Espinosa Calabuig (Valencia), and Nadjma Yassari (MPI Hamburg) have agreed to be the convenors.
If you are interested in joining us in May, please send your application by April 2, 2021 at gender@mpipriv.de. You can find the full Call for Applications here. For more information about the project, please visit https://www.mpipriv.de/gender.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us at gender@mpipriv.de if you have any further questions.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Ivana Isailovic (University of Amsterdam) & Ralf Michaels (MPI Hamburg)
MPI Luxembourg – 3rd CPLJ Webinar: 16 April 2021
Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ) is a global project of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, with the support of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (O19/13946847), involving more than one hundred scholars from all over the world.
CPLJ is envisioned as a comprehensive study of comparative civil procedural law and civil dispute resolution schemes in the contemporary world. It aims at understanding procedural rules in their cultural context, as well as at highlighting workable approaches to the resolution of civil disputes.
In this framework, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law will host its 3rd CPLJ Webinar on 16 April 2021, 3:00 – 5:15 pm (CET).
The programme reads as follows:
Chair: Burkhard Hess (Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and CPLJ Editor)
3:00 pm Oscar Chase (New York University)
Comparative Procedural Law and Culture
3:30 pm Discussion
4:00 pm Intermission
4:15 pm Fausto Pocar (University of Milan)
Comparative Procedural Law: A View from Practice
4:45 pm Discussion
5:15 pm End of conference
The full programme is available here.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by 9 April 2021 via a short e-mail to events@mpi.lu.
(Image credits: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Webinar: Brexit and International Business Law/ Brexit e diritto del commercio internazionale
by Fabrizio Marrella
Event: Brexit and International Business Law/ Brexit e diritto del commercio internazionale
When: 26 March 2021, at 14.30 CET
How: Free access upon enrolment by sending an email at fondazione@ordineavvocatifirenze.eu the contact person is: Ms. Giovanna Tello.
Working languages: English and Italian with no simultaneous translation.
Short description: Webinar on the most relevant legal profiles following the process following the Referendum of 23 June 2016, which led to BREXIT on 31 January 2020. The end of the transitional period on 31 December 2020 led to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) of 24 December 2020 which avoided the “No Deal”. Since January 1st, 2021, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the EU’s customs and tax territory. The TCA creates a free trade area for goods without extra duties or quotas for products, but introduces new rules on rules of origin and labelling of Italian products exported to the United Kingdom as well as new rules for online international sales contracts. The TCA does not clearly regulate the area of financial services, nor it provides detailed regulation for automatic mutual recognition of professional qualifications. All in all, Brexit and TCA require an assessment of current and future international commercial contracts between EU and British companies as well as an evaluation of civil and commercial dispute resolution tools, including arbitration.
Here is the link : https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/3/47520
Prof. Fabrizio Marrella
Prorettore alle Relazioni internazionali e alla Cooperazione internazionale/ Vice Rector for International Relations and International Cooperation
Ordinario di Diritto Internazionale / Chair of International Law
I Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE Seminar “EU-Latin America trade and investment relations”
by Aline Beltrame de Moura, Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil
On March 15th, 2021, at 5 pm (PT time – GMT 0), the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon will hold the conference “EU-Latin America trade and investment relations”. The conference is part of the Jean Monnet Network project “Building Rights and Developing Knowledge between European Union and Latin America – BRIDGE”.
Among the participants the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal, the President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Brazil; the EU Ambassador to Brazil, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and a former Secretary of the Tribunal Permanente de Revisión del Mercosur.
A Workshop about the EU-Latin American trade and investment relations, will precede the conference (at 1 pm – PT time – GMT 0), with the presentation of the selected scientific papers from professors and researchers of nine different countries universities.
The Seminar will be held in Portuguese and Spanish, via zoom. For more information, click here.
WEBINAR: Impact in Quebec and in France of the new European Regulation on Successions
Invitation by Angélique Devaux, Notary
The “Chaire du Notariat” of the University of Montreal is organising a webinar on 17 March 2021 at 9am (EST) on the impact in Quebec and in France of the new European Regulation on Successions.
Through practical cases, the speakers will deal with the resolution and prevention of disputes in matter international successions between France and Quebec by taking into consideration the scope of the New European Regulations on matrimonial property regimes and on successions.
Moderator:
Julie Loranger, Notary, Montreal (Canada), BCF Avocats
Speakers:
Me Angélique DEVAUX, Notaire, Cheuvreux Notaires, Paris (France), LL.M American Law IUPUI Robert McKInney School of Law
Me Jeffrey TALPIS, Montreal University, Head of Chaire du Notariat, corresponding of CRIDON Lyon
Professor Emeritus Georges Khairallah, Université de Paris II Panthéon – Assas, consultant au CRIDON de Paris, droit international privé
To enrol, see the website of the Chaire du Notariat.
Nottingham Arbitration Talk on Wednesday 17 March 2021
Invitation by Dr Orsolya Toth, Assistant Professor in Commercial Law, University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre will hold its inaugural Nottingham Arbitration Talk on Wednesday 17 March at 2-4 pm. The Centre is delighted to welcome distinguished speakers to the event drawn from both academia and practice. The Keynote address will be given by Professor Sir Roy Goode, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. The speaker panel will host Angeline Welsh (Essex Court Chambers), Timothy Foden (Lalive) and Dr Martins Paparinskis (University College London).
The theme of the event will be ‘Procedure and Substance in Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration’. It will address current and timeless issues, such as the influence of procedure on the parties’ substantive rights, the recent phenomenon of ‘due process paranoia’ in arbitration and the current state of the system of investment treaty arbitration.
All welcome and free to attend. For detailed programme and registration please visit https://unclcpresents.eventbrite.co.uk
Webinar: Asia-Pacific Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
The COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted on commercial dispute resolution in China, Singapore and Australia. The important question is whether these impacts will be transformed into legal doctrines and shape the development of law for commercial dispute resolution in the long term.
Experienced panellists will consider how Covid-19 has promoted online trials in China, influenced forum non conveniens and other aspects of international commercial litigation in the Singapore courts, and challenged service of process outside Australia and other private-international-law related issues.
In 2021, besides this panel discussion, the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) at the Sydney Law School will organize a series of events on the (post)development of Covid-19 in the Asia-Pacific region focusing on social justice, civil rights and religion, and trade and investment legal issues.
Moderator:
Professor Vivienne Bath’s teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law and Chinese law. Professor Bath has extensive professional experience in Sydney, New York and Hong Kong, specialising in international commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in China and the Asian region.
Panellists:
Dr. Wenliang Zhang is an Associate Professor at Renmin University of China Law School. He has been teaching and doing research in the field of international disputes resolution, with a focus on international jurisdiction and global judgments recognition. His works appear in peer-reviewed international journals including Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Yearbook of Private International Law and Chinese Journal of International Law.
Dr. Adeline Chong is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the LQR, ICLQ, LMCLQ and JPIL. She is the co-author of Hill and Chong, International Commercial Disputes: Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts (Oxford, Hart, 4th edn, 2010). She is the Project Lead of the Asian Business Law Institute’s project on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia. Her work has been cited by the Singapore, Hong Kong, New South Wales and New Zealand Court of Appeals, the Singapore and New Zealand High Courts, the UK Law Commission, as well as in leading texts on conflict of laws. She has appeared as an expert on Singapore law before a Finnish court and issued a declaration on Singapore law for a US class action.
Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Law School. She teaches and researches in the fields of private international law and digital trade. She has published four books and authored many articles in peer-reviewed law journals, such as Journal of Private International Law and Journal of International Economic Law. She is the Deputy Director of CAPLUS. She also serves as an Arbitrator at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Center), Nanjing Arbitration Commission and Xi’an Arbitration Commission. She has also appeared as an expert witness for issues of Chinese law and private international law at the courts in Australia and the US.
Webinar via Zoom, Friday 12 March, 1pm AEST.
Once registered, you will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.
CPD Points: 1
Registration: https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/talkevents/aftermath-of-pandemic
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