Alien Tort Statute
For those interested in current thinking on the United States Supreme Court’s consideration of the Alien Tort Statute in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, SCOTUSBlog has a fascinating online symposium available
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Kiobel – Amicus Brief of Comparative Law Scholars
A group of U.S. French and German comparative law scholars have filed an
U.S. Symposium on Forum Non Conveniens and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Letters Blogatory is currently holding a very interesting online symposium on
Sciences Po PILAGG Workshop Series, January-February 2012
The list of speakers at the workshop on
Second Circuit Vacates…: Link to Decision
Following Gilles’ post: see
Abbott v. Abbott Argument Round-Up
The Supreme Court of the United States heard argument in Abbott v. Abbott this past week. Abbott is the rare family-law case before the Supreme Court involving an American child taken to Texas from his home in Chile by his mother, without his father’s consent. Under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of […]
Latest Issue of “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (5/2009)
Recently, the September/October issue of the German law journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (
Spanish PIL periodicals (II): Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado
The Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado is an annual magazine specialized in Private International law. It was born in 2000 on an ambitious initiative of Prof. Dr. José Carlos Fernández Rozas (Complutense University, Madrid), in order to provide the Spanish scientific community with accurate and updated information about conflicts of laws in a wide range of […]
Conference: International Law Association Conference 2008
The 73rd. Conference of the International Law Association, hosted by its Brazilian Branch, will take place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the InterContinental Hotel, August 17-21 2008. The central theme of the Conference will be “Law for the Future,” focusing on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Rights of the Human Person, Resolution […]
Arresting a person for civil jurisdiction found unconstitutional by Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa
In Bid Industrial Holdings (Pty) Ltd v Strang and another [2007] SCA 144 (RSA) the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa has ruled on 23 November 2007 that arresting a person in order to found or confirm (civil) jurisdiction is unconstitutional. Under South African law, when a person not domiciled in South Africa is […]