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The University of Strasbourg is organizing workshop series on the protection of Human Rights in transnational situations. The research is conducted in criminal law, labour law, and private international law. After the first meeting which took place last January with the presence of Horatia Muir Watt, Dominique Ritleng and Patrick Wachsmann, the second one will be held in Strasbourg on June 5, focusing on civil and environmental liabilities and private international law.

 

Speakers include :

• Bénédicte Girard, University of Strasbourg
• Marie-Pierre Camproux, University of Strasbourg
• Pauline Abadie, University of Paris Sud
• Fabien Marchadier, University of Poitiers
• Patrick Kinsch, University of Luxembourg, Attorney at law Luxembourg
• Louis d’Avout, University of Paris II
• Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, University of Lyon III
• Caroline Kleiner, University of Strasbourg

For more information click here.

Engagement solennel devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne de quatre nouveaux membres de la Cour des comptes européenne

Renvoi

Both the English and French versions of the HCCH Draft Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments have been just uploaded onto the Hague Conference website (< www.hcch.net >). See News and Events here.

This text will form the basis of the discussions at the Diplomatic Session meeting in 2019.

David Restrepo Amariles (HEC Paris), Eva Mouial Bassilana (Université Côte d’Azur) and Matteo Winkler (HEC Paris) have posted on SSRN an article titled The Impact of the French Doctrine of Significant Imbalance on International Business Transactions. The paper is forthcoming on the Journal of Business Law.

The abstract reads as follows.

This article examines the concept of “significant imbalance” (SI) under French law and its impact on international business transactions. “Significant imbalance” is a legal standard meant to assess whether a contractual clause is unfair (abusive). Although initially restricted to consumer law, it has been extended to general contract law with the implementation of a reform entered into force on 1 October 2016. Previously, the Commercial Court of Paris in the ruling Ministry of Economy v Expedia, Inc (2015) had qualified SI as an “overriding mandatory provision” (“loi de police”) under Regulation 593/2008 on the applicable law to contractual obligations (Rome I). As a consequence, SI became operative in respect of international contracts despite an express choice of a foreign governing law made by the parties to the transaction. This article argues that, as a result of Expedia and the 2016 reform, French courts can interfere with international business transactions by striking down contractual terms that they deem unfair according to the SI standard. The analysis focuses on two key issues. On the one hand, notwithstanding recent judicial precedents, SI still fails to provide a reliable test for predicting which clauses or contracts are at risk of being deemed unfair. On the other hand, the legal arsenal supporting the French legislator’s disapproval of SI allocates great power to French courts and the French Government to pursue tort lawsuits against foreign companies allegedly oppressing their commercial partners with SI clauses. Empirical evidence shows that these actions are highly successful compared with those commenced by private actors. The article concludes that all these aspects, together with SI’s turbulent case law throughout the years, will give rise to uncertainty in international business transactions and may eventually disadvantage France in the global competition in such a field.

Korwin-Mikke / Parlement
Droit institutionnel
Le Tribunal annule les décisions du bureau du Parlement européen infligeant des sanctions à l’eurodéputé Korwin-Mikke en raison de propos tenus dans l’hémicycle

Hassan
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Lorsqu’une personne se rend dans un État membre après avoir introduit une demande de protection internationale dans un autre État membre, le premier État membre ne peut pas décider de la transférer vers le second État membre avant que celui-ci n’ait donné son accord à la demande de reprise en charge

Wind Tre
Liberté d'établissement
L’avocat général Campos Sánchez-Bordona propose à la Cour de juger que le simple fait de ne pas informer l’utilisateur de la pré-installation de services de messagerie vocale et d’accès à Internet sur une carte SIM destinée à être insérée dans un téléphone intelligent ne constitue pas une pratique commerciale déloyale ou agressive lorsque l’utilisateur a été préalablement informé des modalités d’accès et du prix de ces services

Valcheva
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
La notion de « droit de visite » comprend le droit de visite des grands-parents à l’égard de leurs petits-enfants

Wegener
Environnement et consommateurs
Le droit à indemnisation pour retard important d’un vol s’applique aussi aux vols avec correspondances vers un État tiers faisant escale en dehors de l’UE

Commission / Italie
Environnement et consommateurs
Pour avoir tardé à mettre en œuvre le droit de l’Union sur la collecte et le traitement des eaux urbaines résiduaires, l’Italie est condamnée à une somme forfaitaire de 25 millions d’euros et à une astreinte de plus de 30 millions d’euros par semestre de retard

IR
SOPO
Selon l’avocat général Wathelet, l’interdiction de discrimination en fonction de la religion s’oppose à ce qu’un médecin-chef catholique auprès d’un hôpital catholique soit licencié en raison de son divorce et son remariage

The programme of the 2018 edition of the International Seminar on Private International Law organized by Prof. Fernández Rozas and Prof. De Miguel Asensio, has been released and is available here. In this occasion, the Seminar is jointly organized with Prof. Moura Vicente and is to be held at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbonne on 13-14 September 2018. The Seminar, which is closely connected to the legal journal Anuario Español de Derecho internacional privado, will be structured in five sections: Family and Successions; International Commercial Arbitration: International Business Law; Private International Law and IT Law; and Codification of PIL with a special focus on Latin America. The Conference will bring together around fifty speakers from more than twelve countries. Additional information about the seminar is available here.

Abus de confiance

Peines

Irrecevabilité

Thanks to Héloïse Meur, Lilia Aït Ahmed and Estelle Gallant for this post.

On June 21, 2018 a full-day colloquium will take place in Paris on the protection of unaccompanied minors at the former Courthouse.

The colloquium will see the participation of high-hand speakers from institutions facing the issue of unaccompanied minors :

• French public authorities (French authority to protect human rights and civil liberties, French national consultative committee on human rights), • French Supreme Court, • The Paris Bar, • Major civil associations (GISTI, ECPAT, La Cabane juridique), • French and Belgian professors and Phd candidates in law and geography.

The speakers will discuss the root causes of the migration flows of unaccompanied minors, the limits of their treatment by French authorities, the difficulties to coordinate with other EU member States, and envisage the possible room for improvements, notably vis-à-vis what is done abroad, and especially in Belgium.

The program is available here. For registration send an email to colloquemna@gmail.com.