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Virtual Workshop on September 20: Hisashi Harata on Foreign-Corporation Regulations and Private International Law
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, the
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2022: Abstracts
The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax)“ features the following articles: (These abstracts can also be found at the IPRax-website under the following link:
Greek court recognizes UK custody order to the non-biological parent in the context of a married same-sex couple
Greece still forms part of the EU Member States group not recognizing same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples do enjoy however some rights. The latest challenging issue concerned custody rights of a same-sex couple married abroad. The Thessaloniki Court of Appeal reversed the first instance ruling, and recognized an English custody order [Thessaloniki CoA, decision published on […]
“To trust or not to trust – this is the question of private international law”. M. Weller on Mutual Trust, Recueil des Cours, vol. 423 (2022)
A. Introduction During the Summer of 2019, I attended one of the two flagship courses organised by the Hague Academy of International Law – the annual Summer Courses on Private International Law. I quite vividly recall that, during the opening lectures, one of the Professors welcomed the participants at the premises of the Academy, a […]
Golan v. Saada – a case on the HCCH Child Abduction Convention: the Opinion of the US Supreme Court is now available
Written by Mayela Celis, UNED Yesterday (15 June 2022) the US Supreme Court rendered its Opinion in the case of Golan v. Saada regarding the HCCH Child Abduction Convention. The decision was written by Justice Sotomayor, click
Out now: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft vol. 121 (2022) no. 2
The most recent issue of the German Journal of Comparative Law (Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft) has just been published. The editors mourn the loss of Professor Peter Mankowski (1966–2022), who served as an editor of the ZVglRWiss from 2009 to his untimely death. This issue contains an obituary written by his academic pupil, Professor Oliver […]
Conference Report: Private International Law Festival 2022 Edinburgh
Private International Law Festival 16 to 17 May 2022 Edinburgh, United Kingdom by Michael Cremer and Samuel Zeh* After two years of living through a global pandemic, the very first
AI systems and non-contractual liability: A European Private International law analysis
Benedetta Cappiello from the University of Milan has recently published a book on European private international law and non-contractual liability for AI systems (AI Systems and Non-contractual Liability: A European Private International Law Analysis, Giappichelli 2022: https://www.giappichelli.it/media/catalog/product/excerpt/9788892143289.pdf). She has kindly provided us with the following abstract: The advent of AI-systems has fundamentally altered the whole […]
Tort Litigation against Transnational Companies in England
This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. The article can be accessed at no cost by anyone, anywhere on the