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Virtual Workshop on February 2: Dagmar Coester-Waltjen on the Law Applicable to Marriage and Civil Union

On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its eight monthly virtual workshop in private international law at 11:00-12:30. Since January of this year, we are alternating between English and German language. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen will speak, in German, about the topic

“Von der Staatsangehörigkeits-Anknüpfung zur Berufung der lex loci celebrationis im internationalen Eheschließungs- und Partnerschaftsrecht?”

(“From Nationality to Lex Loci in Private International Law of Marriage and Civil Union?”
The presentation will be followed by open discussion. All are welcome. More information and sign-up here.
This is the eight such lecture in the series, after those by Mathias Lehmann in June, Eva-Maria Kieninger in JulyGiesela Rühl in SeptemberAnatol Dutta in OctoberSusanne Gössl in November, Marc-Philippe Weller in December, and Macjiej Szpunar in January. In February, we will again have an English language event – stay tuned!
If you want to be invited to these events in the future, please write to veranstaltungen@mpipriv.de

Online seminar “New challenges and opportunities concerning the rights of the child in cross-border cases”, including Regulation Brussels II ter – Universidad de Valencia, 28 January 2021 (in Spanish/Portuguese)

The Universidad de Valencia is organizing a seminar entitled “nuevos desafíos y oportunidades de los derechos del menor en asuntos transfronterizos”, to be held on 28 January 2021 online (in Spanish / and Portuguese in one panel). The Conflictus Legum blog published information about this seminar here.

This seminar is held in the context of “Minor’s Right to Information in civil actions (MiRI) – Improving children’s right to information in cross-border civil cases”, a Project co-funded by the European Union Justice Programme 2014-2020, JUST-JCOO-AG-2018, under Grant Agreement No 831608.

Among the speakers are: Cristina González Beilfuss, Andrés Rodríguez Benot, Mónica Herranz Ballesteros, Isabel Reig Fabado, Elena Rodríguez Pineau, Mercedes Soto Moya, María Carmen Chéliz Inglés, Idoia Otaegi Aizpurua, David Carrizo Aguado, etc.

The Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (Brussels II ter Regulation) will be discussed throughout the day (but particularly in panel #1).

Participation is free of charge (and there is no need to register). The link to the seminar is here.

Call for Papers: I International Congress on Civil Procedural Law, Universidade Portucalense (Porto), 20 and 21 May 2021

Universidade Portucalense (in Porto, Portugal), and its Research Center – Instituto Jurídico Portucalense and IJP IPLeiria, in collaboration with the University of Vigo, the University of Malaga, the University of Salamanca, the University of Granada and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, organize the I International Congress on Civil Procedural Law – The Challenges of Sustainable Global and Digital Development, to be held on 20 and 21 May 2021, in virtual format.

One of the Thematic Lines will be of interest to readers of this blog, namely “Transnational and European Civil Procedure. Global development process and challenges”.

More information here.