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The fifth issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 will be published on 1 September. The following advance abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. Two of the articles will be published in English: Krapfl and Krahn discuss evidence gathering in international arbitration via freedom of […]

The author of this post is Michiel Poesen, co-director of the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance and lecturer of private international law at the University of Aberdeen. This post considers which country’s copyright law governs the training and development (“T&D”) of generative AI (“GenAI”) for commercial purposes. It does so from a […]

The Court of Justice will resume its public activity on 2 September 2025. The most relevant event regarding private international law this month is scheduled for Thursday 11th, when the opinion of AG Ćapeta in case C-196/24, Aucrinde, will be published. The hearing took place last April as reported here. In the case at hand, the […]

The third issue of 2025 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, is out. Various articles featured in the new issue will likely be of interest for the readers of this blog, including one by Helmut Ortner, Veronika Korom and Marion Neumann, in English, titled Pacta Sunt Servanda’s Soliloquy Amidst Sanctions: The Impact of EU […]

This post was written by Paul Eichmüller, University of Vienna. A recent decision by the Regional Civil Court of Vienna has sparked controversy in Austrian media. The outcry was due to the fact that the court allowed the enforcement of a domestic arbitral award that was based on “Islamic law (Ahl as-Sunna wa-l-Ǧamāʿa) according to […]

Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading French scholars (En Chair(e)). The second interviewee is Pierre Mayer, who is Professor emeritus at the University Paris I and a leading French scholar of private international law […]

Following Brexit, the Brussels I bis Regulation ceased to apply in the UK. The regulation’s rules of jurisdiction in consumer and employment matters (Chapter II, Sections 4 and 5, Articles 17-23) were replaced by Sections 15A-15E of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982. The Explanatory Memorandum to the amendments to the 1982 Act introducing […]

Katharina Boele-Woelki (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg) and Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg (Uppsala University) edited What Family Law for Europe? with Intersentia. The blurb reads as follows: In what ways does contemporary European family law respond to evolving societal dynamics and the growing imperative to uphold human rights? This volume addresses this question by taking a crossnational, comparative […]

Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading French scholars (En Chair(e)). The first interviewee is Paul Lagarde, who is Professor emeritus at the University Paris I and a leading French scholar of private international law […]

As the readers of this blog will recall, the Lindemann Fellowship for Private International Law was established in 2024 to provide early-career researchers with the opportunity to build a network with academics from all over Europe. Fellows are accepted for a three-year period, with new Fellows joining each year, as existing Fellows complete their tenure. […]

On 18 September 2025, the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana will be hosting a conference on the occasion of the annual meeting of GEDIP, the European Group of Private International Law, due to take place in the following days (the latter meeting is only open the Group’s members). The event consists of […]

The Law Commission of England and Wales is reviewing how private international law operates in the context of electronic trade documents and digital assets. As previously reported on this blog, on 5 June 2025 the Law Commission published a consultation paper (paper; summary) proposing reform to certain rules of private international law that apply in the context […]

On 20 August 2025, from 11 to 12 am UK time, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will host a webinar featuring Caroline Rapatz (Kiel University) on Beyond State Borders, Beyond the Situs Rule? Private International Law Issues of Resource Extraction in Antarctica, the Deep Seabed, and Outer Space. The webinar […]

The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 has been published. It features the proceedings of the international conference held in honour of the distinguished Austrian-American conflicts scholar Albert A. Ehrenzweig, which took place in Vienna in June 2024 under the scientific coordination of Matthias Lehmann and Florian Heindler. In addition, this […]

A recent judgment from the Swedish Supreme Court interprets the principle judgments from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) holding arbitration in investment arbitration as incompatible with EU law as conservatively as possible by allowing for invalidation only for “EU internal” relations. Hence, the arbitral award is upheld in relation to a Swiss […]

The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law (Volume 21, Issue 1) features eight articles. Pietro Franzina, Cristina González Beilfuss, Jan von Hein, Katja Karjalainen & Thalia Kruger, Cross-border protection of adults: what could the EU do better?, 1-29 On 31 May 2023 the European Commission published two proposals on the protection of adults. […]

The author of this post is Federica Sartori, PhD student at the University of Pavia. A pending case, Tatrauskė (C-789/23), offers the Court of Justice an opportunity to rule on the relationship between the EU citizens’ right to free movement and residence under Article 21 TFEU and national legislation on the registration of marriage property […]

The EAPIL blog will be publishing fewer posts than usual in the course of August. As in previous years, there will be no more than two or three posts per week until 25 August, when we plan to resume our usual pace. Potential guests are encouraged to keep submitting their proposals at blog@eapil.org, in the […]

A collection of essays titled Europäisierung des Zivilrechts, edited by Guido Kosmehl, Steffen Pabst and István Varga, has been published by C.H. Beck to celebrate the 70th birthday of Thomas Rauscher. It comes with some thirty contributions, mostly in German, dealing with a variety of topics in the area of private law and private international […]

Today (1 August 2025), the Arbitration Act 2025 comes into force. This is provided by the Arbitration Act 2025 (Commencement) Regulations 2025. The Act applies to arbitration proceedings commenced on or after today, as well as to court proceedings in connection with arbitration that falls within the temporal scope of the Act (section 17(4)(a)). The […]