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Asser’s Enduring Vision: The HCCH Celebrates its 125th Anniversary
By the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law On 12 September 1893, Tobias Asser, Dutch Jurist, Scholar and Statesman, realised a vision: he opened the first Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Today, exactly 125 years later, the HCCH celebrates Asser’s vision and the occasion of this […]
The race is on: German reference to the CJEU on the interpretation of Art. 14 Rome I Regulation with regard to third-party effects of assignments
By Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski, University of Hamburg Sometimes the unexpected simply happens. Rome I aficionados will remember that the entire Rome I project was on the brink of failure since Member States could not agree on the only seemingly technical and arcane issue of the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of […]
German Supreme Court refuses to enforce Polish judgment for violation of the German ordre public
It doesn’t happen too often that a Member State refuses enforcement of a judgment rendered in another Member State for violation of the ordre public. But in a decision published yesterday exactly this happened: The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) refused to recognize and enforce a Polish judgment under the Brussels I Regulation (before […]
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ABLI-HCCH webinar: Cross-Border Commercial Dispute Resolution – HCCH 2005 Choice of Court and 2019 Judgments Conventions (27 July 2022
Written by Catherine Shen, ABLI Following a
AMEDIP’s upcoming seminar: The need for a PIL law for Ecuador – 16 June 2022 (at 3 pm Mexico City time)
The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (
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 […]
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