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Proving Chinese Law: Deference to the Submissions from Chinese Government?
Written by Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law The recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Animal Science Products, Inc. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, concerns what weight should be given to the Chinese government’s submission of Chinese law. On Page 58 of the trial transcript, Justices Kagan […]
Who Owns France.com?
France is a state. France.com, by contrast, is a domain name, and it was, until recently, owned not by the French state but instead by a Californian company, France.com, Inc. That conflict is now being litigated in a fascinating dispute reminiscent of the early days of the internet. In those early days, in 1994 to […]
The Supreme Court deals the death blow to US Human Rights Litigation
Written by Bastian Brunk, research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute for Comparative and Private International Law at the University of Freiburg (Germany) On April 24, the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision in Jesner v Arab Bank (available
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HCCH Monthly Update: August 2022
Conventions & Instruments On 29 August 2022, the European Union deposited its instrument of accession to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention, becoming the first Contracting Party to the Convention, and Ukraine deposited its instrument of ratification, becoming the second Contracting Party to the Convention. As a result, the Judgments Convention will enter into force on […]
Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention
HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository In preparation of the
MPI Luxembourg / KU Leuven / EAPIL Conference: “The Brussels Ibis Reform”
In view of the upcoming revision of the instrument, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg in collaboration with EAPIL and KU Leuven hosts a (hybrid) international conference on “