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This one is next: the Netherlands Commercial Court!
By Georgia Antonopoulou, Erlis Themeli, and Xandra Kramer, Erasmus University Rotterdam (PhD candidate, postdoc researcher and PI ERC project Building EU Civil Justice)
Following up on our previous post, asking which international commercial court would be established next, the adoption of the proposal for the Netherlands Commercial Court by the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) today answers the question. It will still have to pass the Senate (Eerste Kamer), but this should only be a matter of time. The Netherlands Commercial Court (NCC) is expected to open its doors on 1 July 2018 or shortly after. Read more
A European Law Reading of Achmea
Written by Prof. Burkhard Hess, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.
An interesting perspective concerning the Achmea judgment of the ECJ[1] relates to the way how the Court addresses investment arbitration from the perspective of European Union law. This paper takes up the judgment from this perspective. There is no doubt that Achmea will disappoint many in the arbitration world who might read it paragraph by paragraph while looking for a comprehensive line of arguments. Obviously, some paragraphs of the judgment are short (maybe because they were shortened during the deliberations) and it is much more the outcome than the line of arguments that counts. However, as many judgments of the ECJ, it is important to read the decision in context. In this respect, there are several issues to be highlighted here: Read more
CJEU on the compatibility with EU law of an arbitration clause in an Intra-EU BIT – Case C-284/16 (Slovak Republic v Achmea BV)
Written by Stephan Walter, Research Fellow at the Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (TCDR), EBS Law School, Wiesbaden, Germany
Today, the CJEU has rendered its judgement in Slovak Republic v Achmea BV (Case C-284/16). The case concerned the compatibility with EU law of a dispute clause in an Intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the Netherlands and the Slovak Republic which grants an investor the right to bring proceedings against the host state (in casu: the Slovak Republic) before an arbitration tribunal. In concrete terms, the German Federal Court of Justice referred the following three questions to the CJEU (reported here): Read more
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Seminar information: U.S Extraterritorial Jurisdiction– Myths and Reality
Professor William S. Dodge, John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law; Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law, will give a seminar entitled ‘U.S. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction-Myths and Reality’ at the Wuhan University School of Law on 15 Oct. at 15:00-16:30pm Beijing Time. This seminar will be chaired by Professor Sophia Tang, the Associate Dean of the Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Global Governance. Associate Professor Wenliang Zhang at the Renmin University, Associate Professor Xiongbin Qiao, Associate Professor Yong Gan, and Associate Professor Wenwen Liang at the Wuhan University will act as discussants. You can attend the seminar online through Tencent Meeting. Please follow the information below:
Time?2023/10/15 15:00-17:00 (GMT+08:00) Beijing Time
Meeting link?
https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/KADluwLhfmfc
Tencent Meeting ID: 991-898-184
Password: 89456
Call for abstracts: RIDOC 2023 Rijeka Doctoral Conference
A Friday in early December is reserved for RIDOC: Rijeka Doctoral Conference, organised by the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. Doctoral students in law or law-related area who wish to join colleagues from different countries to test their research hypothesis and arguments before the expert panel are welcome to apply for the 2023 edition.
The call is open until 20 October and abstracts should be sent to ridoc@pravri.uniri.hr. More information is available here.
Save the Date: German-French Symposium on the new German Sales Law (Heidelberg, 24 Nov 2023)
On 24 November 2023, the Institute for the History of Law at the University of Heidelberg (Institut für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft) is hosting a symposium on the new German Sales Law in cooperation with the Université de Lorraine. Further information can be found here (French version).