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Claims Against Corporate Defendant Founded on Customary International Law Can Proceed in Canada
By Stephen G.A. Pitel, Faculty of Law, Western University Eritrean mine workers who fled from that country to British Columbia sued the mine’s owner, Nevsun Resources Ltd. They sought damages for various torts including battery, false imprisonment and negligence. They also sought damages for breaches of customary international law. Their core allegation was that as […]
ERA: Recent European Court of Human Rights Case Law in Family Matters (conference report)
Report written by Tine Van Hof, researcher at the University of Antwerp On the 13th and 14th of February 2020, the Academy of European Law (ERA) organized a conference on ‘Recent ECtHR Case Law in Family Matters’. This conference was held in Strasbourg and brought together forty participants coming from twenty-one different countries. This report […]
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9th Journal of Private International Law Conference: Deadline for submission of abstracts
The 9th Journal of Private International Law conference will be hosted by the Yong Pung School of Law, Singapore Management University on 3rd to 5th August 2023. A reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts is Friday 16 December 2022. The Call for Papers can be found
CJEU on recognition of extrajudicial divorces, case Senatsverwaltung für Inneres und Sport, C-646/20
It does not happen often that the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice delivers a judgment on interpretation of EU private international law instruments. In fact, as the highly interesting
2023 Hague Academy Summer Course in Private International Law
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