New Czech Act on Private International Law
By Petr Briza, co-founding partner of Briza & Trubac, a Czech law firm focusing on cross-border litigation and arbitration, among others. Regular readers of this blog might recall this
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Third Issue of 2013’s Journal of Private International Law
The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law contains the following articles: Richard Garnett,
Unfair Terms in Low-Cost Airline Contracts: A Spanish Court Takes a Bold Step
Many thanks to Cristian Oró Martínez, Senior Research Fellow at the MPI Luxembourg. The Commercial Court (Juzgado de lo Mercantil) nº 5 of Madrid delivered on 30 September 2013 a judgment in an action brought by the Spanish consumer association Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU) against the Irish airline Ryanair. OCU asked the Commercial […]
Latest Issue of “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (6/2013)
Recently, the November/December issue of the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (
Civil Justice in the EU – Growing and Teething?
This post has been jointly drafted by Gilles Cuniberti, Xandra Kramer, Thalia Kruger and Marta Requejo. Civil Justice in the EU – Growing and Teething? Questions regarding implementation, practice and the outlook for future policy is the title of the conference held in Uppsala, Sweden, on Thursday and Friday last week, co-organised by the Swedish […]
The 3rd Petar Sarcevic conference on family law
The Third International Scientific Conference Petar Sarcevic: Family and Children – European Expectations and National Reality will take place in Opatija, Croatia, on 20-21 September 2013. The programme of this conference includes the following speakers and topics: Friday, 20 September Prof. Dr. KATARINA BOELE-WOELKI Utrecht University Family Law in Europe: Past, Present, Future – Keynote […]
Latest Issue of “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (4/2013)
Recently, the July/August issue of the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (
New French Book on European Divorce Law
A commentary of European private international law instruments applicable in divorce proceedings was just published by the University of Burgundy (CREDIMI) under the supervision of Professor Sabine Corneloup. There are approximately a million divorces in the European Union each year, of which 140 000 have an ‘international’ element. 13% of European couples are bi-national and the trend is […]
Köhler on Overriding Mandatory Provisions in European Private International Law
Andreas Köhler from the University of Passau has written a book on overriding mandatory provisions in European Private International Law (Eingriffsnormen – Der ‘unfertige Teil’ des europäischen IPR, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2013). The author has kindly provided us with the following summary: After a detailed dogmatic analysis of the so-called “mandatory rules problem”, Andreas Köhler […]
ERA-Conference on Cross-border Divorce and Maintenance
From 25 to 27 February 2013 the Academy of European Law (ERA) will host a conference on “Cross-border Divorce and Maintenance: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law” in Dublin. The conference will provide information on the Brussels II bis Regulation, the Rome III Regulation as well as the Maintenance Regulation. Further information is available