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Register now: How European is European Private International Law? Berlin, 2/3 March 2018
Over the course of the last decades the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law (including civil procedure). The resulting substantial degree of legislative unification has been described as the first true Europeanisation of private international law and even as a kind of “European Choice of Law Revolution”. However, until today it is largely unclear whether the far-reaching unification of the “law on the books” has turned private international law into a truly European ”law in action”: To what extent is European private international law actually based on uniform European rules common to all Member States rather than on state treaties or instruments of enhanced cooperation? Is the way academics and practitioners analyse and interpret European private international law really different from previously existing domestic approaches to private international law? Or is the actual application and interpretation of European private international law rather still influenced or even dominated by national legal traditions, leading to a re-fragmentation of a supposedly uniform body of law?
To answer these and related questions Jürgen Basedow (MPI Hamburg), Jan von Hein (University of Freiburg), Eva-Maria Kieninger (University of Würzburg) and Giesela Rühl (University of Jena) kindly invite you to the conference “How European is European Private International Law?”. that will take place on 2 and 3 March 2018 in Berlin. Bringing together academics and practitioners from all over Europe the conference will provide a platform to shed light on the present lack of „Europeanness“of European private international law and to discuss how European private international law can become more truly European in the future.
More information is available on the conference website and on the conference flyer. Please register by 1 February 2018.
The programme reads as follows:
Friday, 2 March 2018
9.00 am Registration
9.30 am The Europeanisation of Private International Law
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow, MPI Hamburg (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Giesela Rühl, University of Jena (Germany)
- Dr. Andreas Stein, Head of Unit, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
1st Part: Europeanness of Legal Sources
10.00 am The relationship between EU and international Private International Law instruments
- Speaker: Prof. Pietro Franzina, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy)
- Commentator: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Basedow, MPI Hamburg (Germany)
10.45 am Discussion
11.15 am Coffee break
11.45 am The relationship between EU and Member State Private International Law
- Speaker: Prof. Johan Meeusen, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)
- Commentator: Prof. Dr. Jan von Hein, University of Freiburg (Germany)
12.30 pm Discussion
1.00 pm Lunch break
2nd Part: Europeanness of Actual Court Practice
2.00 pm The application of European Private International Law and the ascertainment of foreign law
- Speaker: Prof. Marta Requejo Isidro, MPI Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Commentator Prof. Paul Beaumont, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
2.45 pm Discussion
3.15 pm Coffee break
3.45 pm The application of European Private International Law and the role of national judges
- Speaker: Prof. Agnieszka Frackowiak-Adamska, University Wroclaw (Poland)
- Commentator: Prof. Michael Hellner, Stockholms Universitet (Sweden)
4.30 pm Discussion
5.00 pm The application of European Private International Law and the role of national court systems
- Speaker: Prof. Xandra Kramer, Universiteit Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Commentator: Prof. Pedro de Miguel Asensio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
5.45 pm Discussion
6.15 pm End of day 1
7.30 pm Reception and conference dinner
Saturday, 3 March 2018
3rd Part: Europeanness of Academic Discourse and Legal Education
8.30 am National styles of academic discourse and their impact on European Private International Law
- Speaker: Prof. Sabine Corneloup, Université de Paris/Sorbonne (France)
- Commentator: Prof. Dário Moura Vicente, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
9.15 am Discussion
9.45 am Coffee break
10.15 am Overriding mandatory laws, public policy and European Private International Law
- Speaker: Prof. Marc-Philippe Weller, University of Heidelberg (Germany)
- Commentator: Prof. Stephanie Francq, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
11.00 am Discussion
11.30 am Legal education and European Private International Law
- Speaker: Prof. Thomas Kadner Graziano, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
- Commentator: Prof. Gilles Cuniberti, Université de Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
12.15 pm Discussion
12.45 pm Lunch break
2.00 pm The future of European Private International Law in theory and practice
- Opening statement: Karen Vandekerckhove, Head of Unit, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
- Discussants: Prof. Paul Beaumont, Prof. Gilles Cuniberti, Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Kieninger, Prof. Johan Meeusen, Prof. Marta Requejo Isidro
4.00 pm Concluding remarks
- Prof. Dr. Jan von Hein, University of Freiburg (Germany)
4.15 pm End of conference
Hague Academy Now Offers Winter Courses
The Hague Academy has long offered three week summer courses in private international law. Beginning in 2019, it will also offer winter courses in January.
This is mainly because universities in the southern hemisphere are teaching during the months of July and August, when the Academy’s courses are taking place, which makes it difficult for their students to come to The Hague during that period. On the other hand, their vacation period during the southern summer will allow these students to come to the Academy in January without conflicting with their academic year. The winter courses were therefore created in the first instance with students from this part of the world in mind.
However, these students are not the only ones for whom the courses are designed. Doctoral students, from whichever part of the world they may come, are not generally required to be present at their university at all times. Therefore, those from the northern hemisphere can also attend these courses every January. In such a case, they will have an additional opportunity to meet distinguished professors from various countries, as well as other doctoral students from other parts of the world, and to benefit from exchanges in the common interest of their doctoral research work. As it does during the summer, the Academy will facilitate these exchanges with the assistance of a teacher who will be put in charge of organising and channelling them.
As for the rest, the organisation of the courses and their publication, seminars, directed studies and diploma will be exactly the same as in the summer. The only difference is that the distinction between a public international law period and a private international law period has been abolished in favour of a single three-week period of “international law”, taking into account the general trends in the development of the subject.
Registrations will open from 3 January 2018.
Further information at
https://www.hagueacademy.nl/programmes/winter-courses/
The program for January 2019 is here.
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By Ana Koprivica, Research Fellow MPI Luxembourg.
On 20th and 21st November 2017 in Brussels, the Academy of European Law (ERA) hosted the seminar: “Access to Documents in the EU and Beyond: Regulation 1049/2001 in Practice”, bringing together national and EU civil servants, lawyers, active members of the NGOs and civil society, and academics. The seminar aimed at providing participants with answers to practical questions on access to information and documents in the European Union. Read more