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Deadline Extended! The Private Side of Transforming the World – UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law
Outline and Call for Papers Update! The planned public conference has to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now take place at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg on September 9-11 2021, one year later than originally announced. On September 10-11 2020, we will instead hold a closed online workshop among […]
Resistance is Futile – How Private International Law Will Undermine National Attempts to Avoid ‘Upload Filters’ when Implementing the DSM Copyright Directive
Last week, the European Parliament adopted the highly controversial
Recognition and Enforcement: 30 years from the entry into force of the Brussels Convention in Greece – A practitioner’s account –
I. Introduction It was the 3rd of March 1989, when an announcement was published in the Official Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, stating that the Brussels Convention would finally enter into force on April 1, 1989. Why finally? Because it took the state nearly a decade after the accession to the EC [1.1.1981] to activate […]
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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
The programme of the Hague Academy of International Law
Call for papers: V Workshop Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE in Sevilla
The Jean Monnet Network – BRIDGE project, cofunded by EU Erasmus+ Programme, and the Latin American Center of European Studies invite the academic community to submit scientific papers to the V Workshop Jean Monnet Network on “Private International Law in relations between the European Union and Latin America”, which will be held in hybrid format […]