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The first issue of French Journal du droit international (Clunet) for 2012 was just released. It contains five articles and several casenotes. Four articles explore private international law issues. In the first one, María Mercedes Albornoz and Jacques Foyer (both from Paris II University) compare the Interamerican Convention on the law applicable to international contracts […]
As part of a series of compendia on foreign commercial and business law in German language, a fully revised edition on English commercial and business law has just been released. The book is edited and authored (with two additional co-authors) by Volker Triebel, a German Rechtsanwalt and English barrister, Martin Illmer from the Max Planck […]
On Thursday 15 March 2012 the Hanenburg-Yntema Foundation convenes a seminar on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Mediation in China, with a focus on “People’s Mediation in China”. The “Hanenburg-Yntema Fonds” is Belgian foundation, based at the University of Leuven, whose key goal is to promote academic research on the law of the People’s Republic of […]
On the occasion of Bernd von Hoffmann’s 70th birthday Herbert Kronke and Karsten Thorn have edited a Festschrift entitled “Grenzen überwinden – Prinzipien bewahren” (Overcoming Borders – Preserving Principles). It has been published by Ernst und Werner Gieseking and contains contributions relating to Private International Law, International Civil Procedure, Comparative Law and International Commercial Arbitration. The table […]
Recently, the 3rd edition of Professor Anton’s standard text on the Scottish rules of private international law has been published. The book has been completely revised by Professor Paul Beaumont (University of Aberdeen) and Professor Peter McEleavy (University of Dundee) paying regard to the fact that the subject area has been comprehensively restructured in recent […]
The latest issue of “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrecht (IPRax)” has just been released. The table of contents is available on the
The latest issue of “Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht – The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ)” has just been released. It contains – among others – articles on the recent Chinese and Japanese Codifications on Private International Law. The table of contents reads as follows: Articles: Knut Benjamin Pissler, […]
PRIME Finance, an international tribunal specialising in resolving financial disputes has launched its services today in the Hague.
The services that it offers are arbitration and mediation, so it is, in effect, an arbitration institution rather than the “latest of six international courts in the Netherlands“. The dispute resolution experts of Prime Finance are indeed specialists of international arbitration rather than international criminal law scholars, and the good air of the Hague seems unlikely to change the legal nature of this newcomer.
The press has reported that it is to be financed by the Dutch government and the city of the Hague for its first two years. The Netherlands has certainly a lot to gain if it can effectively compete with London and New York City as an international center for the resolution of financial disputes. For that purpose, one suspects that the founders of the institution have put more effort into attracting Lord Collins of Mapesbury and the Honourable Charles N. Brower than Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Well, let’s the competition begin, then.
Dean Symeon C. Symeonides (Willamette University – College of Law) has posted
Olivier Cachard, who is a professor of law at Nancy University, has published the second edition of his manual on international commercial law. In the French tradition, the book includes developments on international commercial contracts, the law governing corporations, international insolvency, international bank undertakings, and international commercial arbitration. The table of contents is available