Pietro Franzina (University of Ferrara) has published Some Remarks on the Relevance of Article 8 of the ECHR to the Recognition of Family Status Judicially Created Abroad in the last issue of the Italian journal Diritti umani e diritto internazionale.

The paper is a note discussing the implications of the recent jugdment of the European Court of Human Rights in Negrepontis v. Greece  where the court held that Greece had violated Article 8 by denying recognition to an adoption order issued by a Michigan court.

The note is also available on the website of the Italian society for international law.

The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law has just been published. The contents: Arbitration and the Draft Revised Brussels I Regulation: Seeds of Home Country Control and of Harmonisation? Luca G Radicati di Brozolo In this article I discuss the provisions on arbitration of the European Commission’s December 2010 draft recast of […]

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On October 22nd, 2011, Doctor Dieter Krombach, 76, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a French criminal court for killing Kalinka Bamberski in 1982. Again. A French criminal court had already sentenced Krombach in 1995 to 15 years. But he resided in Germany (where the alleged offence was also committed), and German authorities, after investigating the […]

Today, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of