EAPIL blog

On 14 April 2025, the Council of the European Union approved the position of the European Parliament at first reading, illustrated in this blog, on the proposal for a directive amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 (the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD) as regards the dates from which Member States are to […]

On 9 April 2025, the French Ministry of Justice issued instructions for the public prosecutors of Nantes and Rennes, who are responsible of the French central status registry, to register parentage as resulting from foreign surrogacies. The instruction expressly relies on the judgments of the Cour de cassation of October 2024 and November 2024 which […]

A collection of essays honoring Marc Fallon has recently been published by Larcier under the title Vers un code européen de droit international privé? Further information can be found here. The collection, edited by Jean-Yves Carlier and Stéphanie Francq (both professors at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as the honoree), brings together some twenty contributions (mostly […]

Stefano Dominelli (Univ. of Genova) has authored ‘Regolamento Bruxelles I bis e US jurisdiction in personam: riflessioni e proposte su condivisioni valoriali, influenze e osmosi di metodi’ (Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2025). The volume, in Italian (with the conclusive chapter also translated in English) is freely accessible online. He has shared the following presentation of his […]

As reported on this blog, the European Commission published on 26 February 2025 a proposal for a directive amending Directives 2006/43, 2013/34, 2022/2464 and 2024/1760. The initiative, part of the Omnibus Simplification Package, seeks to adjust certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence obligations. On 1 April 2025, the European Parliament invoked the urgent procedure […]

On 20 March 2025, the Danish Supreme Court ruled (in case BS-34884/2024-HJR) that a Chinese arbitral award could not be enforced in Denmark due to a lack of proper service. Background In 2020, a Chinese arbitral tribunal held that the investments that an investor had made for a company should be repaid. Since the defendant […]

The Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen is relaunching its Crossroads in Private International Law research seminar series. The programme will open on 23 April 2025, at 14:00 (UK time), with a seminar on Consumer Protection and Justice in Israeli Private International Law by Sharon Shakargy (The Hebrew […]

In a judgment of 2 April 2025, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that there is no exception in Article 25 of the Brussels I bis Regulation to the enforcement of jurisdiction clauses to ensure the application of the overriding mandatory provisions of the forum. As a consequence, […]

Within the framework of the Jean Monnet Module CoME CircLE, the University of Udine, in cooperation with a consortium of European universities, now including University of Essex , De Montfort University of Leicester, University of West Timisoara, East Anglia University, University of Belgrade, University of Rijeka and University of Szeged, organizes the 18th edition of […]

On 27 March 2025 the Court of Justice handed down the judgment in the Ławida case (C-57/24) concerning the scope of jurisdiction to receive declaration on waiver of succession under Article 13 of the Succession Regulation. The preliminary question originates from Poland. Facts of the Case BA is a minor habitually resident in Poland. The deceased […]

The author of this report is Meltem Ece Oba (Koç University, Istanbul). The post is being published simultaneously on Conflictoflaws.net and on the EAPIL blog. On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws” was convened at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Under the auspices of the Institute of European and Comparative […]

In April 2025, Advocate General J. Kokott will deliver her opinion on joint cases C-672/23 , Electricity & Water Authority of the Government of Bahrain e.a., and C-673/23, Smurfit Kappa Europe e.a. The publication is scheduled for Thursday 3. The EAPIL blog has already reported on these (partially identical) Dutch requests for a preliminary ruling concerning […]

The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members in participating in a Working Group on the private international law aspects of digital tokens. The immediate goal of the establishment of the Working Group is to prepare for the participation of and represent EAPIL in an Experts’ Group on […]

The European Association of Private International Law has established a Working Group to deal with the private international law aspects of carbon markets. Alex Mills agreed to serve as chair. The immediate goal of the Working Group is to prepare for the participation of EAPIL in the Experts’ Group on the private international law issues […]

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 […]