Kinsch on Recent ECHR Cases Relating to PIL
Patrick Kinsch, who is a visiting professor at the University of Luxembourg and a member of the Luxembourg bar, has posted
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By Royal Appointment: No Closer to an EU Private International Law Settlement?
Members of the British Royal Family and aristocracy have long contributed to the development of the law in England governing matters of personal privacy. As long ago as 1849, Prince Albert, the prince consort of Queen Victoria, resorted to the courts to prevent the publication of etchings and drawings by the Royal couple, including of […]
On Legal Pluralism and Multiculturality
Pluralismo y multiculturalidad: Tribunal arbitral musulmán y consejos islámicos (Sharia courts) en el Reino Unido is the title of the last paper by professor V. Camarero Suárez and professor F. Zamora Cabot, both from the University of Castellón. The paper, written in Spanish, has been published in the Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado, 2012; professor […]
As for Shell…
Four Nigerian farmers, aided by the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth, have managed to prosecute the multinational Shell for polluting the Niger Delta between 2004 and 2007. Today the case has been declared admissible by a civil court in The Hague, i.e., in a different country and continent to the alleged dumping, and […]
Clara Cordero on Kate Provence Pictures
Clara Cordero Alvarez teaches Private International Law in Madrid (Universidad Complutense). She has written her PhD on the protection of the right to honour, to personal privacy and image. Nowadays, almost all the people around the world have already heard something about the new scandal that has arisen concerning the British royal family: the topless […]
Ubertazzi on Kate Provence Pictures
Benedetta Ubertazzi is a Full-Tenured Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Macerata, Italy and a Fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The publication of topless photographs of Britain’s likely future queen Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge (hereinafter: Kate Middleton or the Duchess), by certain newspapers in several EU countries – such […]
Muir Watt on Kate Provence Pictures
Horatia Muir Watt is a professor of law at Sciences-po Paris Law School. Cachez ce sein…It seems to me that this case – which is perhaps less intrinsically interesting, even from a conflict of laws perspective, than other recent instances in which the cross-border exercise of the freedom of press is challenged in the name of […]
El Sawah on Immunities and the Right to a Fair Trial
Sally El Sawah, who practices at the French arbitration boutique Leboulanger, has published a monograph in French on Immunities of States and International Organizations (Les immunités des Etats et des organisations internationales – Immunités et procès équitable). The book, which is more than 800 page long, is based on the doctoral dissertation of Ms El […]
Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XIII (2011)
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ICC and Civil Reparations
Many thanks to Assistant Professor Nicolás Zambrana (University of Navarra, Spain), author of this comment on the ICC decisions against Lubanga. First Decision on Civil Reparations by the International Criminal Court Last 14 of March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first judicial decision ever, declaring Thomas Lubanga guilty of the crime of conscripting […]