Van Den Eeckhout on Choice and Regulatory Competition and on Business and Human Rights
The working paper “Choice and regulatory competition. Rules on choice of law and forum”, written by Veerle Van Den Eeckhout (
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Conference on International Child Abduction and Human Rights, 16 October
The University of Antwerp (Research Group Personal Rights and Real Rights) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law are organising a conference on International Child Abduction and Human Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Status Quo. The confernce will take place in Antwerp – Stadscampus – R.212 – Rodestraat- on 16 October 2014. Register […]
Is an International Arbitral Tribunal the Answer to International Human Rights Litigation?
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New Papers on Business and Human Rights
“Business, Human Rights And Children: The Developing International Agenda”, by O. Martin-Ortega and R. Wallace, has been published in The Denning Law Journal 2013, vol 25, pp 105 – 127. The following excerpt illustrates the contents: “The instruments analysed in this article are part of an important trend: the development of a comprehensive response to the […]
A Comparative and Legislative Approach to Human Rights Litigation After Kiobel
As the impact of the Supreme Court’s Kiobel decision continues to take shape before U.S. federal courts, one recent essay, entitled “Reviving Human Rights Litigation After Kiobel” (appearing in the near future in the October 2013 American Journal of International Law), encourages a comparative and legislative approach to the Alien Tort Statute. As Professors Vivian Grosswald Curran (Pitt […]
The ECJ and ECHR Judgments on Povse and Human Rights – a Legislative Perspective
by Dorothea van Iterson Dorothea van Iterson is a former Counsellor of legislation, ministry of Justice of the Netherlands
On MNCs and Human Rights: an Overall Picture (Article)
“Las Empresas Multinacionales y Su Responsabilidad en Materia de Derechos Humanos: Una Visión de Conjunto” (click
Conference: The Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Spain (Sevilla, 4-6 November 2013)
The University of Sevilla will host on 4-6 November an international conference on the responsibility of transnational corporations with regard to human rights, focusing on the
Muir Watt on Abolition of Exequatur and Human Rights
Horatia Muir Watt is Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School I. Framing the child-return issue. Several recent cases handed down by the two European Courts appear to be opening new vistas for conflicts of laws, in which human rights play a large part. The cases are well-known (ECJ/CJUE Aguirre v Pelz 2010; ECtHR […]
Online Symposium: Abolition of Exequatur and Human Rights
In June, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Povse v. Austria that the abolition of exequatur was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights, and that the mechanism introduced by the Brussels IIa Regulation was not dysfunctional from the perspective of the Convention. In December 2010, the Court of Justice of the European […]