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Career Opportunities at the American Society of International Law

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) is looking for a Director of Programmes (responsible for the oversight of the Society’s Programs Department, including major conferences, educational programming, substantive Interest Group activities, international organization engagement, and international law career training) and a Director of Finance and Administration (leading all aspects of the Society’s financial and human resources operations and oversees its general administrative operations, in partnership with the Executive Director).

More information is available on their Career opportunities page.

First issue of Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2023

The first issue of Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2023 was just published today. It contains the following articles, case notes and book review on private international law:

S Matos, “Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Escalating Dispute Resolution Agreements”

M Phua and M Chan, “The Law Governing whether an Arbitration Agreement binds a Non-party”

Lord Hodge, “The Rule of Law, the Courts and the British Economy”

Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, “The Economic Value of English Law in Relation to DLT and Digital Assets” 

Adrian Briggs KC, Life and Cases: Manuscript of an Autobiography. Frederick Alexander Mann, edited by Wolfgang Ernst. V&R unipress; Bonn University Press (2021) xvi and 230pp. plus 1 p. Bibliography. Hardback £36.99.

A new article on private international law was published open-access earlier this week in The Cambridge Law Journal

on: ‘JUSTIFYING CONCURRENT CLAIMS IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW‘.

Written by Sagi Peari and Marcus Teo, the article analyses whether claimants can choose between contract and tort claims arising on the same facts with different jurisdictional and/or choice-of-law consequences. While domestic legal systems generally recognise a concurrent liability,  commentators object that its extension to private international law would be unprincipled and would threaten the field’s values. This, however, contrasts with the position in common law and under EU Regulations, where concurrent claims are generally recognised with only narrow limits. This article justifies concurrent claims in private international law, arguing that the same premises supporting concurrent liability in domestic law exist in private international law and that no field-unique concerns foreclose it.