The following information has been kindly provided by Wilson Lui, PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School; Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.
The latest issue of the Journal is available online and features the following papers delivered at the ILA-Korea’s 60th Anniversary Conference on Private International Law held in Seoul, Korea on 11 June 2024:
The following information has kindly been provided by Anselmo Reyes.
The third Asian Private International Law Academy (APILA) Conference will take place in person at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday 8 (Day 1) and Monday 9 (Day 2) December 2024. Persons whose abstracts have been selected (see next paragraph) will deliver oral presentations in turn on Days 1 and 2. Each presentation will run for about 10 minutes and be followed by a discussion of about 10 to 15 minutes in which participants will have the opportunity to comment on a presentation. The APILA Conference will be in the form of two days of roundtable discussions in English. The objective of the APILA Conference is to assist presenters to refine prospective research papers with a view to eventual publication. Read more
On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 11:00-12:30 (CET). Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dennis Solomon, LL.M. (Berkeley) (University of Passau) will speak, in German, about the topic
The presentation will be followed by open discussion. All are welcome. More information and sign-up here.
If you want to be invited to these events in the future, please write to veranstaltungen@mpipriv.de.
The Pax Moot Court Competition has today launched the case of the Ulrich Huber Round! Read all about the content moderators and their dissatisfaction with Watermelon Information Technology on the Paxmoot webpage. Safe Socials Foundation has today instituted proceedings in the Maastricht court, which will hear the case between 9 and 11 April (see the schedule).
We hope to see you there, as pleaders, judges or audience! Don’t forget to register.
The following information has been kindly provided by Zlaty Mihailova, Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC).
The EU-funded project PACE “Creating Privacy Awareness in Civil Enforcement” examines the intersection of civil enforcement and data protection and aims to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU data protection law in civil enforcement procedures.
The PACE Project is launching free-of-charge on-line training seminars for enforcement agents and/or their staff on a national and transnational level for the EU member states and EU candidate countries. Read more
This month the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Mexico). For more information, click here. For some Private International Law implications, click here.
The petitioners are: Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc.; Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc.; Beretta U.S.A. Corp; Glock, Inc.; Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.; Witmer Public Safety Group, Inc., d/b/a Interstate Arms; Century International Arms, Inc.; and Colt’s Manufacturing Company, LLC.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law (Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2024). The special issue titled “Legalization of Foreign Relations in China” was guest-edited by Professor Congyan Cai.
The full issue is now available with free access for a limited time. You can explore the table of contents and access the articles at this link: Chinese Journal of Transnational Law – Volume 1, Issue 2.
Table of Contents
Special Issue Articles
Legalization of Foreign Relations in China
Zheng Tang and Congyan Cai
pp. 89
Milestone of China’s Foreign-Related Legislation – A Review of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Relations
Huang Huikang
pp. 95
Political Framing in China’s Foreign Relations Law: International Law and ‘Fundamental Norms Governing International Relations’
Malcolm Jorgensen
pp. 117
China’s Foreign State Immunity Law: A View from the United States
William S. Dodge
pp. 137
A Critical Appraisal on China’s Blocking Statutes from a Private Actor’s Perspective
Guiqiang Liu
pp. 154
Original Research Article
A Future Uniform Regime of International Commercial Mediator Immunity: Limited, Party-Agreed and Statute-Required
Meng Lin
pp. 176
Short Article and Recent Development
Reading China’s Global Security Initiative Through an International Legal Lens
Ka Lok Yip
pp. 198
Book Review
Liang Xi, Updated and Augmented by Yang Zewei, Liangxi Guojizuzhifa
Gang Tang
pp. 211
The following information on the Journal of Private International Law 20th Anniversary Conference, to be held at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 September 2025, has kindly been provided by Ugljesa Grusic.
We are pleased to invite the submission of paper proposals for the conference. Submission is open to anyone regardless of seniority or academic affiliation, including postgraduate students and practitioners, with an expectation that you will produce a paper for submission to the Journal of Private International Law by the end of the 2025 calendar year (with publication subject to the usual peer review process). Proposals are welcome on any topic within the scope of the Journal. A proposal should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, as well as details of the name and affiliation(s) of the author(s).
Prof. Zheng Sophia Tang will be hosting a hybrid conference on Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Asia at Wuhan University on 23rd November 2024. This conference will be held both in person and online.
Information kindly provided by Johannes Ungerer
At the University of Oxford, a conference on ‘Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws’ will be held on 20 and 21 March 2025. It is jointly organised by Dr Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford and University of Notre Dame in England), Dr Caterina Benini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), and PD Dr Felix Berner (University of Tübingen), and is funded by the Institute of European and Comparative Law and the Faculty of Law.