EAPIL blog

By Professor Jerca Kramberger-Škerl, University of Ljubljana. ‘Speaks 13 languages, can tell a joke in 7, can lecture in 8.’ This was the headline of a 2015 article in the Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik, marking the third appointment of Marko Ilešič as the Slovenian judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Indeed, being […]

On 27 June 2024, the English Court of Appeal delivered a judgment on the Rome II Regulation (which is assimilated EU law in the UK) in Nicholls v AXA Assistance Group Group T/A AXA Travel Insurance [2024] EWCA Civ 718 (LLJ Dingemans, Stuart-Smith and Coulson). The case concerned personal injuries in Spain, Spanish law was […]

On 5 July 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/1760 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 (Text with EEA relevance) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Pursuant to Article 38 of the Directive, it […]

The last seminar in the series organised by Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and hosted by the Cour de cassation on the recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation was held on 24 June 2024. The general topic of the seminar was recognition and enforcement of […]

This post was written by François Mailhé, who is Professor of Private Law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. The author thanks Justice Fulchiron for changing the Cour de cassation‘s practice and making his preliminary report available to the public on the Court’s website, thus providing a new source of information on the Court’s […]

Michael S. Green (William and Mary Law School), Ralf Michaels (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg) and Roxana Banu (Oxford University) are the editors of Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law published by Oxford University Press. The book is divided into four sections focusing on normative structure, authority, plurality, and the […]

This July, the activity of the Court of Justice in PIL matters comprises the publication of two decisions and one opinion. All them relate to the interpretation of the Brussels I bis Regulation: On Thursday 4, the fifth Chamber (sitting judges K. Lenaerts, E. Regan, I. Jarukaitis and D. Gratsias) will deliver its judgment in […]

Norway is not bound by the EU choice of law regulations. Still, Article 7 of the Rome I Regulation applies fully in Norway and the Rome II Regulation governs what law that applies in any non-contractual matter between an insurance company and a person claiming compensation after a traffic accident. This was the view expressed […]

Jacco Bomhoff (Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science) has made available on SSRN a paper on Cold-War Private International Law that was published also as a LSE Legal Studies Working Papers (Paper No 16/2024). The abstract reads as follows: This paper explores the character of Private International Law, or the […]

Vesna Lazić (Associate Professor at Utrecht University and Senior Researcher at T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague) and the late Peter Mankowski (formerly Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany) published  in 2023 a book titled ‘The Brussels I-bis Regulation: Interpretation and Implementation’. The book is a part of the JUDGTRUST Project […]

Articles 14 and 15 of the French Civil Code establish the jurisdiction of French courts where either the plaintiff or the defendant is a French national. The provisions date back to the original Napoleonic Code. Although Articles 14 and 15 refer to obligations, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) […]

This post was prepared by Tess Bens from University of Vienna. Burkhard Hess and his team at the University of Vienna have finalised an updated version of the Position Paper on the Reform on the Brussels Ibis Regulation of the association. Establishment of the EAPIL Working Group The Brussels Ibis Reform project leading up the […]

The authors of this post are Leon Theimer (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Nicolas Dewitte (Humboldt University of Berlin). Introduction From 6 to 8 June, around 100 members of the EAPIL gathered in the captivatingly charming city of Wrocław in Poland for the 2024 EAPIL conference on ‘Private International Law and Global Crises’. Over the […]

The fist issue of 2024 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. Along with recent case law and materials, it features six contributions. Francesco Salerno, Il contributo degli studiosi italiani ai corsi de L’Aja di diritto internazionale privato [The Contribution of Italian Scholars to the Teaching of Private International Law […]

The second edition International Commercial Contracts – Contract Terms, Applicable Law and Arbitration, authored by Giuditta Cordero-Moss (University of Oslo), is out. The book is published by Cambridge University Press. Any practising lawyer and student working with international commercial contracts faces standardised contracts and international arbitration as mechanisms for dispute settlement. Transnational rules may be […]

Professor Matthias Lehmann, Chair of Private International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna, seeks two highly skilled and ambitious research fellows from 1 October 2024 (“prae-docs”). Post-docs can also apply; in this case, the two positions would be merged into one. The first position is available in the area of private international law […]

The Spanish Yearbook of International Law (SYbIL), edited by the Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI), is calling for papers on topics of public and private international law for its forthcoming volume. Aware of the paramount importance of international practice, the Spanish Yearbook of International Law publishes contributions from active academics […]

The author of this post is Manuel Penades Fons, Reader in International Commercial Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London, United Kingdom. Introduction In Oilchart the CJEU needs to decide whether a creditor can commence proceedings in an EU Member State against a party which is already subject to insolvency […]

This is the third post of the online symposium on the recent judgment of the CJEU in Air Berlin (see also here). It is authored by Patrick Wautelet (University of Liege, Belgium), who contributed to the recent Elgar Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation and Implementing Legislations. The first post was authored by Ilaria Queirolo […]

Olga Ceran (Leiden University) has kindly prepared this presentation of her recent book titled Cross-Border Child Relocation in the EU – The Dynamics of Europeanisation published by Intersentia in 2024 in its European Family Law series. This book is the first monograph to investigate cross-border child relocation as a unique legal issue in the EU context. The […]