The Permanent Bureau is pleased to announce that a colloquium on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), titled “CODIFI Edition 2023 – CBDCs”, will be held online on Thursday 5 October 2023, following the mandate of the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) at its 2023 meeting (C&D No 17).
CODIFI Edition 2023 – CBDCs will cover selected topics related to the HCCH’s CBDCs Project, established by CGAP in March 2023 with the mandate to study the private international law implications of CBDCs. The colloquium will feature a series of pre-recorded video discussions, led by subject-matter experts of the CBDCs Project and other specialists of academia, government, and industry. Live discussion sessions will also take place on the same day to summarise the proceedings and provide more insights and some ideas on the way forward.
This important book systematically analyses the private international law issues regarding private antitrust damages claims which arise out of transnational competition law infringements. It identifies those problems that need to be considered by injured parties, defendants, judges and policy-makers when dealing with cross-border private antitrust damages claims in a global context. It considers the post-Brexit landscape and the implications in cross border private proceedings before the English courts and suggests how the legal landscape should be developed. It also sets out how private international law techniques could play an increasingly important role in private antitrust enforcement.
Comprehensive and rigorous, this is required reading for scholars of both competition litigation and private international law.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Chukwuma Okolihttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngChukwuma Okoli2023-09-22 09:30:192023-09-22 09:30:19Out Now: Private International Law and Competition Litigation in a Global Context, by Mihail Danov
Commercial Disputes and anti-suit relief in Anglophone Africa – a panel discussion 06 Oct 2023
Location: 12:00-1:00 pm UK Time Virtual Event (Zoom)
Members: FREE to attend – Book by 06 Oct
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https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Béligh Elbaltihttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngBéligh Elbalti2023-09-22 08:35:502023-09-22 16:56:40Commercial Disputes and anti-suit relief in Anglophone Africa
Trevor has long been one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), continuing a tradition started at the LSE by Professor Otto Kahn-Freund. For many decades, he has been at the forefront of developments in the field. As a prominent critic, notably of the Court of Justice’s efforts to unify European private international law. But also as an active participant in projects of legislation and modernization. And as author of authoritative treatises and clear and accessible student textbooks.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Béligh Elbaltihttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngBéligh Elbalti2023-09-22 08:28:172023-09-22 16:54:58Symposium for Trevor Hartley at LSE on 27 October 2023
The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) is holding a webinar on 5 October 2023 at 2:30 pm (Mexico City time), 10:30 pm (Europe, CEST time) to launch the book entitled:
For more information about the book, see our previous post here.
The book will be presented by the author and the following AMEDIP members: Professors Jorge Alberto Silva Silva and Nuria González Martín, as well as the family law attorney María Virginia Aguilar.
The webinar will be held in Spanish and the details are:
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Written by Dr. Delphine Porcheron, Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg Law Faculty
On October 19 and 20, the University of Strasbourg is organizing a symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past”.
Mass crimes, deportations, spoliations, colonial exploitation, slavery… The “crimes of the past” are first known to us as historical facts. Their protagonists have mostly disappeared; they have been documented by historians; almost all of them are mentioned in school textbooks. They have become part of our collective memory as disastrous episodes of a bygone past.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Samuel Fulli-Lemairehttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngSamuel Fulli-Lemaire2023-09-21 07:32:472023-09-21 20:38:16Symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past” in Strasbourg (Oct. 19–20)
The hybrid event will take place on 5 October, 5pm Swiss Time, both at the University of Lausanne, IDHEAP, AULA, and online (Zoom-Link; pw: 832357).
The event had originally been scheduled for 11 October (indicated wrongly above) but has been postponed for logistical reasons. The new date will be advertised shortly.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Tobias Lutzihttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngTobias Lutzi2023-09-18 12:48:422025-07-21 13:45:09Book Launch: Blockchain & Private International Law
The 2023 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Private International Law was held on 14-16 of September in Wuhan, PRC. This is probably the most important academic event for Chinese scholars specializing and researching in the area of private international law. This year, there were more than 300 participants.
After the HCCH Asia Pacific Week in Hong Kong, the Secretary General of the HCCH, Dr. Christophe Bernasconi was invited to attend the conference and give a speech. He was also invited to act as a commentator for a panel of plenary session which was conducted in English.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Guangjian Tuhttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngGuangjian Tu2023-09-18 11:18:192023-09-18 11:18:19The 2023 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Private International Law
HCCH Asia Pacific Week 2023 – Access to Justice and Sustainable Development: The Impact of the HCCH in an Inter-Connected World, was successfully held from 11 to 14 September 2023 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China.
The HCCH celebrated its 130th Anniversary during the HCCH Asia Pacific Week. During the week, many important conventions and instruments of the HCCH were promoted and examined by the experts from around the Asia Pacific Region.
Yuriko Haga, Professor at Seikei University, Avatars,Personalities in the Metaverse: Introductory Analysis on Conflict-of-Laws
When people perform various activities in the metaverse, another world on the Internet, they make avatars as their “proxy”, representing their personality. However, the connection between an avatar and its user is often unclear. In fact, avatars do not necessarily resemble to their user’s figure or face because people can decide its appearance at their disposal. The first question thus arises as to whether the attack on an avatar can be assimilated to an attack on the personality of a user, a person in real world. An avatar should be deemed part of the online personality of its user, and, considering the existing theory of personality rights, it is not completely separate from the person in the real world. Therefore, an attack brought against an avatar can deemed more or less an infringement against the user’s personality. The second question is then how to select the applicable law to such cases. An infringement of personality rights in the metaverse is by nature “international” because users can connect to that virtual “world” from all corners of the planet. This leads to a difficulty in determining the place that the connecting factor designates. This paper examines the applicability of actual Japanese conflict-of-laws rule to issues occurring in the metaverse to show its boundary. The traditional theory posits to apply national laws to resolve legal issues, but the world of metaverse is often governed by rules of its own. It follows that the conflict-of-laws theory should now consider the applicability of the rules of other communities, such as the metaverse.
https://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.png00Cristina Mariottinihttps://conflictoflaws.net/News/2020/08/CoL_Banner-1.pngCristina Mariottini2023-09-16 08:29:002023-09-17 17:49:58Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) No 2/2023: Abstracts
