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EU Member State sees opportunities in Brexit: Belgium is establishing a new English-language commercial court
Expecting higher demands for international commercial dispute resolution following Britain’s departure from the EU, Belgium plans to set up a new English-language commercial court, the Brussels International Business Court (BIBC), to take cases away from the courts and tribunals in London. This decision was announced on 27 Oct 2017. This BIBC is designed to address disputes […]
CJEU on the place of the damage under Article 7(2) of Brussels Ia as regards violation of personality rights of a legal person
First personal impressions presented by Edina Márton, LLM, PhD (Saarbruecken) For jurisdictional purposes, the localisation of cross-border violations of personality rights under European instruments, such as Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia), has attracted the attention of a considerable number of scholars and often led to different legal solutions in the national judicial practice. At […]
Is “la réserve héréditaire” part of French international public policy ?
Through two decisions (Civ. 1ère, 27 sept. 2017, n°
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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
Organization of American States (OAS): Registration is open for the XLVII Course on International Law (2022)
The Organization of American States (OAS) has issued a call for applications for the XLVII Course on International Law, which will take place from 1 to 12 August 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – in Spanish and English (no interpretation services will be offered). As indicated in […]