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US Court Refused to Apply the Chosen Chinese Law due to Public Policy Concern
In Fu v. Fu, 2017 IL App (1st) 162958-U, a father brought a claim against his son to revoke an unconditional gift of $590,000 that he donated to his son for the later to pursue an EB-5 Visa to immigrate to the US. Both parties are Chinese citizens and the defendant is currently a resident […]
NIKI continued
Written by Lukas Schmidt, Research Fellow at the Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (TCDR) of the EBS Law School, Wiesbaden, Germany The Spanish airline Vueling Airlines S.A. is still intending to acquire large parts of the NIKI business. Vueling is part of the European aviation group IAG, which also includes British Airways, Iberia, Aer […]
NIKI, COMI, Air Berlin and Art. 5 EIR recast
Written by Lukas Schmidt, Research Fellow at the Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (TCDR) of the EBS Law School, Wiesbaden, Germany. The Regional Court of Berlin has, on the basis of the immediate appeal against the order of the provisional insolvency administration on the assets of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH (under Austrian law), repealed the […]
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CERIL Report Reviews Cross-Border Effects in European Preventive Restructuring
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Out Now: Yves El Hage, Le droit international privé à l’épreuve de l’internet
With his thesis, which has just been published by LGDJ as part of the prestigious Bibliothèque de droit privé, Yves El Hage makes another, yet formidable addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on the difficult relationship between private international law and the internet. In the inimitable style of French scholarship, the book consists of […]
Report: Summer School on the new Foreign Relations Law, MPIL Heidelberg, June 8-10, 2022
Report on the Summer School on the new Foreign Relations Law MPIL Heidelberg, June 8-10, 2022 by Zixuan Yang and Jakob Olbing* The MPIL in Heidelberg hosted a three-day Summer School titled “Populism and the New Foreign Relations Law: Between Public International Law, ‘External Public Law’, and Conflict of Laws”, led by Anne […]