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On 24 and 25 September 2026,the University of Edinburgh Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host the second Private International Law Festival in Edinburgh on The End of Rule-Based International Order? – Implications for Private International Law. The Festival aims to make progress on the following questions: what impact do current geopolitical shifts have […]

A call for papers and panels has recently been issued by Michiel Poesen (University of Aberdeen) and Patricia Živković (University of Aberdeen), co-convenors of the Private International Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars 117th Annual Conference at University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich from 2 to 4 September 2026. The call is reproduced […]

The author of this post is Iina Tornberg, who is a project researcher at the University of Eastern Finland and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. The judgment rendered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 16 December 2025 addressed the protection of family life in a case involving the return […]

The authors of this post are Mathilde Codazzi (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University), Paul Eichmüller (University of Vienna) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), co-Chairs of the EAPIL Young Research Network.  As already noted on this blog, the EAPIL Young Research Network (YRN) will hold its 5th Project Final Conference on Privacy […]

This post was written by Artur Doržinkevič and Ana Kiknadze, PhD candidates at Mykolas Romeris University, and Working Group members for Lithuania in the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. On 18 December 2025, the Lithuanian legislator adopted amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure (“CPC”) and other domestic laws, thereby transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1069 […]

Two recent Grand Chamber judgments of the Court of Justice suggest that the “principle of recognition” in international family law has undergone a qualitative shift: It does more than set vague limits on the outcomes reached by the national laws of Member States. Instead, read together, Mirin and Cupriak-Trojan establish a broad principle of free […]

On 12 March 2026, the Court of Justice rendered its judgment in Shipov (C-43/24), concerning the right of citizens of the Union to free movement and national rules on the amendment of gender data in civil-status registers. The Court held that Article 21 TFEU and Article 4(3) of Directive 2004/38, read in the light of […]

I have already reported on the judgment of the High Court of England and Wales in Border Timbers Ltd v Zimbabwe [2024] EWHC 2024 (Comm), which dismissed an application to set aside an order granting registration of an ICSID award. The High Court had reached a similar conclusion in Infrastructure Services Luxembourg SARL v Spain […]

The author of this post is Lydia Lundstedt, who is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University and Linköping University. On 6 March 2026, the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) made the UPC’s first-ever reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), including questions on […]

The members of the European Association of Private International Law have access to a reserved area of this website, called MyEAPIL, where they can find information on other members. To ensure this tool is as useful as it can be, it is important that members update their personal details (academic or professional affiliation, e-mail address, […]

The fourth issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. In addition to recent case law and other materials, it features two contributions. Christian Kohler, Loi de police ou ordre public? Interrogations critiques soulevees par l’arret C-86/23 Huk Coburg de la Cour de justice de l’Union europeenne (Overriding Mandatory Provisions […]

The EAPIL Working Group on Parallel Proceedings has issued a position paper to answer the public consultation of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the HCCH Draft text of a future convention on parallel proceedings and related actions. The position paper was drafted by Gilles Cuniberti, Aleksandrs Fillers, Bettina Heiderhoff, Jeremy Heymann, Vesna Lazic, […]

This post presents an interview of Lilla Garayová, Professor of Children’s Rights at Pan-European University, on private international law issues arising from Slovakia’s 2025 constitutional reform, highlighting implications also for other EU Member States and in relation to the proposed EU Regulation on Parenthood. The interview was conducted by Marco Pasqua (PhD, Catholic University of […]

On 12 January 2026, the European Law Institute (ELI)’s Report on Enhancing Child Protection: Private International Law on Filiation and the European Commission’s Proposal COM/2022/695 final has been formally approved by ELI Fellows. The Report was prepared by a team consisting of Claire Fenton-Glynn, Cristina Gonzales Beilfuss, Fabienne Jault-Seseke, Martina Melcher, Sharon Shakargy, Patrick Wautelet and […]

In March 2026, the European Association of Private International Law had the distinct honour of joining as an observer, for the first time, the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). The invitation to participate in the HCCH’s principal governing body was a recognition of EAPIL’s […]

On January 15, 2026, the Court of Justice rendered its judgment in Wunner, C-77/24, addressing the application of the Rome II Regulation (864/2007) to the personal liability of company directors in the context of unlawful online gambling. The judgment clarifies the scope of the company law exception in Article 1(2)(d) of the Rome II Regulation […]

The second issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2026 was published on 1 March. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. C. Budzikiewicz/H.-P. Mansel/K. Thorn/R. Wagner, Europäisches Kollisionsrecht 2025: Im Windschatten der Weltpolitik (German) This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the […]

The 11th Journal of Private International Law Conference will take place in Zurich from 1-3 April 2027. The conference organizers, Tanja Domej and Christiane von Bary, as well as the editors of the Journal, Jonathan Harris and Paul Beaumont, have provided the following call for papers inviting submissions of proposals for the conference. Following the […]

A collection of essays under the titled Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? has recently been published by Mohr Siebeck, edited by Tobias Lutzi (University of Augsburg). The book can be freely accessed here. It is the first of two volumes resulting from the Project Zeitenwende beim Strafschadensersatz? / A Turning Point for Punitive Damages?, aimed […]

The Law Quarterly Review has published an interesting article by Ardavan Arzandeh (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore) on Validation Principle and the Choice-of-Law Question. The article discusses the elements of the validation principle, its application in cases such as Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi AS v OOO Insurance Company Chubb [2020] UKSC 38 to choice-of-law […]