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After the Romans: Private International Law Post Brexit

December 19, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Michael McParland, QC, 39 Essex Chambers, London On 10 December 2018 the Ministry of Justice published a draft statutory instrument with the pithy title of “The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018”. This indicates the current intended changes to retained EU private international law of […]

The renaissance of the Blocking Statute

December 12, 2018/in Views/by Giesela Ruehl

Written by Markus Lieberknecht, Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law (Heidelberg) Quite a literal “conflict of laws” has recently arisen when the EU reactivated its Blocking Statute in an attempt to deflect the effects of U.S. embargo provisions against Iran. As a result, European parties doing business with Iran are […]

Service of documents in the European Judicial Space: on the Commission’s proposal for amending Regulation 1393/2007

December 9, 2018/in Views/by Thalia Kruger

Guest post by Dr. Stefano Dominelli of the University of Milan In recent times, the European Commission has investigated the possibility of amending Regulation 1393/2007 on the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents between Member States. Such instrument has already settled some issues practitioners encountered under the application of the previous legal framework, in particular […]

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Last chance to register for the online summer course 2022 of the Hague Academy of International Law

July 2, 2022/in News/by Mayela Celis

Tomorrow (3 July 2022) is your last chance to register for the online summer course 2022 of the Hague Academy of International Law (both public and private international law). Click

Call for Papers: XV Conference ASADIP and General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law

June 28, 2022/2 Comments/in News/by Ralf Michaels

Call for Papers XV Conference ASADIP and General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law ASADIP and IACL invite proposals for presentations for a panel on “Private International Law and Sustainable Development: Latin American Perspectives”. The panel will be part of the XV Conference of ASADIP “A Private International Law to Transform the […]