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The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members in participating in a Working Group on Trusts and Institutions Analogous to Trusts in the context of the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention. The immediate goal of the establishment of the Working Group is to prepare for the participation of and […]

The author of this post is Antonio Leandro, Professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Bari (Italy). On 27 March 2025, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the Auto1 European Cars case (C-186/24 Matthäus Metzler, acting as insolvency practitioner in insolvency proceedings, v Auto1 European Cars BV), which deals […]

As previously noted on this blog, the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen will host, on 6 June 2025, the third Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre, under the title New Dimensions in Private International Law. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 4 April 2025. Additional […]

A call for papers has been issued for the XI International Conference on Private International Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid, due to take place on 22 and 23 May 2025. This year’s conference will honor Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Selected contributions will be published on the […]

On 4 April 2025, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan will host a seminar, in English, on the case of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The Vitruvian Man is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. Made around 1490, it is a study of ideal body proportions inspired by the teachings of Vitruvius, […]

Reinhard Bork (University of Hamburg) and Michael Veder (Radboud University) edited The UNCITRAL Model Laws on Cross-Border Insolvency and on the Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related Judgments — An Article-by-Article Commentary with Edward Elgar. The book is part of the Elgar Commentaries in Corporate and Company Law series. The commentary provides an analysis of UNCITRAL […]

The latest issue of the new French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely downloaded here. Unfair Trade Practices The focus of the issue is on unfair trade practices in private international law. It includes the following articles. Hakim […]

On 6 March 2025, the Danish Supreme Court held in a decision that an abducted child should not be returned to Ukraine under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction (1980 Hague Convention). The court found grounds to refuse the return, emphasizing that while the war in Ukraine influenced the situation, […]

A call for papers has recently been issued by Michiel Poesen and Patricia Živković (University of Aberdeen), co-convenors of the Society of Legal Scholars Private International Law section, for the PIL section of the SLS Annual Conference 2025 at Leeds University from 3 to 4 September 2025. The call is reproduced below, as received by the promoters. This […]

On 27 March 2025, the Court of Justice will hand down the judgment in case C-186/24, Auto1 European Cars. The request for a preliminary ruling arises in relation to insolvency proceedings opened by the Landesgericht Linz (Regional Court of Linz) on May 2022. The main dispute opposes the insolvency practitioner to Auto1, a company headquartered […]

On 24 February 2025, the Arbitration Act 2025 received Royal Assent. The Act implements the recommendations of the Law Commission for reform to the arbitral framework in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It addresses the following matters: Law applicable to arbitration agreement; Impartiality: duty of disclosure; Immunity of arbitrator: application for removal; Immunity of […]

The fourth issue of 2024 of the Dutch journal of private international law, Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht, was published a few weeks ago. It comes with the following contributions An editorial is written by Mathijs ten Wolde (Professor of private international law and international transport law at the Groningen University) who provides an overview of the […]

The German Parliament has adopted a reform of the law of names, including private international law, to enter into force in mid-2025. It includes a ground-breaking change from the classic connecting factor, nationality, to habitual residence. This seems to be a new trend: the incoming Austrian coalition government also plans a similar shift. The Text […]

On 24 March 2025, at 6pm UK time, Marta Pertegás (Maastricht University; University of Antwerp; a fulltime member of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law between 2008 and 2017) and Alex Mills (UCL; a Specialist Editor of Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws, with particular responsibility for, […]

The decision in case C-57/24, Ławida, has been scheduled for delivery on 27 March 2025. The Sąd Okręgowy w Gliwicach (Poland) has referred to the Court of Justice the following question: Must Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 [on succession] be interpreted as meaning that it does not apply in a situation where, in […]

The EAPIL’s Young Research Network has just launched its fifth research project, which is being led by Mathilde Codazzi, Paul Eichmüller and Marco Pasqua. The project will focus on the national rules governing the law applicable to non-contractual obligations arising out of privacy and personality rights. The aim of the project is to enable a […]

The latest issue of the RabelsZ (Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht) has been published. Since 2024, RabelsZ has been an open access publication, with all articles freely available to readers online. The focal point of the first issue of 2025 is international and comparative family law, with contributions critically examining the interactions between […]

Louise Ellen Teitz (Roger Williams University School of Law) has posted Harmonizing Private International Law and International Private Law Through Softlaw on SSRN. The abstract of the article, a homage to Symeon Symeonides and set to be published in the Willamette Law Review, reads as follows: This article, prepared for a celebration of the career […]

On 4 March 2025, Prof. Thomas Kadner-Graziano presented publicly on line the project of research and the achievements to date of the EAPIL’s Working Group on the Feasibility of a European Private International Law Act (to which I belong). A few days earlier, the EAPIL blog had informed about an article of Prof. K. Boele-Woelki […]

The UK Supreme Court judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30, upholding an anti-suit injunction restraining Russian proceedings brought in violation of an arbitration agreement providing for a seat in France, has caused significant interest. We covered it on the EAPIL Blog in a post noting the judgment and in a […]