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INTRODUCTION A UK third-party costs order [henceforth: TPCO] is a totally unknown procedural concept in Greece.  In the course of exequatur proceedings, the Piraeus first instance court and the Piraeus court of appeal were called to examine the issue for the first time in Greece, both declaring that no obstacles, especially those intertwined with procedural […]

We have already announced the lecture in honour of Albert Armin Ehrenzweig that will take place in Vienna at the Austrian Ministry of Justice on 20 June 2024. The full programme is now available. The event will take place in hybrid mode and is free of charge. Registration is required for both personal and online […]

This is the second post in the online symposium on the recent judgment of the CJEU in Air Berlin (see also here). It is authored by Antonio Leandro (University of Bari, Italy), who edited and contributed to the recent Elgar Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation and Implementing Legislations. The first post was authored by […]

This is the first post in the online symposium on the recent judgment of the CJEU in Air Berlin (see also here). It is authored by Ilaria Queirolo and Stefano Dominelli (University of Genoa, Italy), who contributed to the recent Elgar Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation and Implementing Legislations. In Air Berlín Luftverkehrs KG, […]

On 18 April 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in Joint Cases C-765/22 and C-772/22, Air Berlin Luftverkehrs KG. The judgment, which was briefly presented on this blog, addresses several novel issues related to the application of the European Insolvency Regulation. In the coming days, the EAPIL Blog will host an online symposium on this case. […]

Francisco Garcimartin (University Autónoma of Madrid) has posted Is EU Insolvency Law consistent? on SSRN. The abstract reads as follows: The piecemeal approach to the harmonisation of insolvency law in the EU and the corresponding time lag between the unification of choice of law rules, on the one hand, and substantive harmonisation, on the other, has […]

On 24 May 2024, the Council of the European Union approved the position of the European Parliament at first reading on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (and subsequently also Regulation (EU) 2023/2859). The directive has thereby been […]

Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 establishing the European Digital Identity Framework entered into force on 20 May 2024. As reported on this blog (at the time of the Commission’s proposal), the major contribution of this Regulation is the creation of a “European Digital Identity Wallet” (EUDIW). It aims to allow citizens and companies based in the European […]

On 6 June 2024 the Court of Justice will be holding a hearing in case C-393/23, Athenian Brewery et Heineken. The request for a preliminary ruling comes from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (the Dutch Supreme Court). In the main proceedings, Macedonian Thrace Brewery SA (‘MTB’) is suing Athenian Brewery SA (‘AB’) and Heineken NV (‘Heineken’) […]

The latest issue of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht has just been released. It includes contributions on private law, comparative law and legal history, among others. The full table of content can be accessed here. In addition to the editorial by Christine Budzikiewicz on the Commission Proposal for an EU Regulation on Parenthood and […]

The second conference of the European Association of Private International Law will take place in Wrocław on 6-8 June 2024. As the readers of this blog know, the topic of the event will be Private International Law and Global Crises. Organised by Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska, the conference will begin on 6 June, in the afternoon, with […]

Katarina Trimmings (University of Aberdeen), Sharon Shakargy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Claire Achmad (Universiteit Leiden) edited Research Handbook on Surrogacy and the Law. Published by Edward Elgar in its Research Handbooks in Family Law series, the book provides a multifaceted exploration of surrogacy and the law, examining a variety of critical yet under-researched perspectives […]

On 25 April 2024, the CJEU handed down a landmark decision on EU company law. It curtailed the so-called “seat theory”, which still features in many Member State laws, to the extent that it can no longer be applied to companies from the European Economic Area (EEA). The Background The law governing companies has long […]

The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé of 2024 has been released. It contains two articles, several briefing notes as well as numerous case notes on private international law. In the first article, Nicolas Nord (University of Strasbourg & ICCS) examines the role of French civil registrars in the international context, […]

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The author of this post is Helga Luku, a PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp. In his opinion of 7 May 2024 in C-4/23, Mirin, Advocate General (AG) Richard De la Tour asserted that the refusal of the recognition in one Member State of a change of gender obtained in another Member State by […]

Paul Herrup and Ronald A. Brand (University of Pittsburgh – School of Law) have made available on SSRN a paper on the developments in the Hague Conference project on concurrent proceedings, titled A Further Look at a Hague Convention on Concurrent Proceedings. The abstract reads as follows: The current project of the Hague Conference on […]

Anna Nylund and Antonio Cabral are the editors of Shaping Civil Litigation Using Procedural Agreements, recently published by Eleven. Procedural agreements hold the potential to effectively customise and expedite civil proceedings. However, their impact on access to justice, particularly for weaker litigants, and the potential erosion of the court’s role raise significant concerns. Despite the […]

A Summer School on Cross-border litigation and international arbitration will take place between 15 and 20 July 2024 both on-site at the Ravenna Campus of the University of Bologna and on-line, under the direction of Michele Angelo Lupoi (University of Bologna) and Marco Farina (LUISS, Rome). The course will address cross-border litigation from a wider […]

The author of this post is Martin Gebauer (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen). Erik Jayme passed away on 1 May 2024, just five weeks before his expected celebration of his ninetieth birthday. He was born on 8 June 1934, in Montréal, in the francophone Canadian province of Québec. His parents were married on Christmas 1930 […]