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The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues, including the 2024 case-law review dedicated to EU private international law prepared by Louis d’Avout, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Stefan Huber, Patrick Kinsch, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin. […]

Julien Chaisse (City University of Hong Kong) is the author of Advanced Introduction to International Commercial Contracts, recently published by Edward Elgar. This practical, globally focused book explains how international commercial contracts are structured, negotiated, and enforced across major economies and key trade hubs. Instead of centring on a single jurisdiction, it provides comparative insights […]

The author of this post is Massimo Benedettelli, formerly a Professor of International law at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. One of the leading jurists of the twentieth century has passed away. If the Italian academic tradition requires all international law professors to be versed in conflicts and the law of nations at once, […]

A conference on ‘the concentration of cross-border litigation’ (La concentration des contentieux transfrontières) will take place on 13 and 14 November 2025 at the University Toulouse Capitole. Background The event is jointly organised by the DANTE Research Centre (Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris-Saclay) and the Institut de Recherche en Droit Européen, International et Comparé (IRDEIC) of the University Toulouse Capitole, […]

This post was written by Aygun Mammadzada, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the Swansea University. It is the fifth contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the Law Commission of England and Wales’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets and Electronic Trade Documents in Private International Law. The post is based on the author’s presentation […]

This post was written by Sagi Peari, Associate Professor in Private and Commercial Law at the University of Western Australia Law School. It is the fourth contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the Law Commission of England and Wales’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets and Electronic Trade Documents in Private International Law. Readers are encouraged […]

The sixth and final issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 has been published on 1 November. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. M. Weller: Fundamental innovations in international art restitution: “Restatement of Restitution Rules for Nazi-Confiscated Art” and introduction of an “Arbitral […]

This post was written by Matthias Lehmann, Professor at the University of Vienna. It is the third contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the Law Commission of England and Wales’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets and Electronic Trade Documents in Private International Law. Readers are encouraged to participate in the discussion by commenting on the […]

This post was written by Burcu Yüksel Ripley, Professor at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. It is the second contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the Law Commission of England and Wales’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets and Electronic Trade Documents in Private International Law. Readers are encouraged to participate in the […]

This post was written by Koji Takahashi, Professor at the Doshisha University Law School. It is the first contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the Law Commission of England and Wales’s Consultation Paper on Digital Assets and Electronic Trade Documents in Private International Law. Readers are encouraged to participate in the discussion by commenting […]

On 5 June 2025, the Law Commission of England and Wales published a consultation paper (paper; summary) proposing reform to certain rules of private international law that apply in the context of digital assets and electronic trade documents. This development was covered by the EAPIL blog. In brief, the Consultation Paper makes four key contributions: Proposals for […]

The Court’s activities are suspended during the so-called semaine blanche, i.e., between 3 and 7 November 2025. The first event related to private international law is the hearing that is set to take place on 12 November in case C-14/25, Thüringer Aufbaubank. The Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) is requesting the interpretation of Regulation (EC) No 805/2004 […]

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly includes two contributions dealing with private international law. The first, by Richard Garnett, is entitled Foreign Judgments and the Relationship between Direct and Indirect Jurisdiction. A key issue in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments is jurisdiction, with a distinction drawn between ‘direct’ jurisdictional […]

Jean-Baptiste Racine (University Paris II Panthéon Sorbonne), Fabrice Siiriainen (University of Nice) and Séverine Menétrey (Free University of Brussels) have published the fourth edition of a manual of French international commercial law (Droit du commercial international). The book surveys all aspects of international commercial law: private international law of corporations, of contracts, and of guarantees. […]

As announced earlier on this blog, applications are open to join the Lindemann Fellowship, a programme established in 2024 to support promising academics in the field of private international law. Fellows are accepted for a three-year period, with new Fellows joining each year.  The core of the Fellowship is an annual fully funded meeting of […]

On 19 November 2025, from 2 to 3 pm UK time, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will host a webinar featuring Kirsten Henckel (University of Groningen) on The Digital Afterlife: Digital succession and private international law. The webinar will explore how digitalisation has transformed property and inheritance, raising new challenges […]

The Greek publisher Nomiki Bibliothiki has published a book by Haris Meidanis, in English, titled The Private International Law of Commercial Mediation. In a commercial contract that contains a mediation clause, a dispute arises. Mediation starts and the related questions begin: Must the parties sign an agreement with the mediator and under which law? Should […]

A call for chapters has been issued for the upcoming edited volume Digitalisation of Justice: Perspectives from Germany and the Netherlands, to be published by Springer Nature under the editorship of Benedikt Schmitz (University of Groningen). The volume explores how digitalisation affects courts and dispute resolution, seeking to balance efficiency and fairness, from remote hearings […]

On 21 October 2025, the European Commission adopted its 2026 work programme, titled Europe’s Independence Moment. It outlines how the EU plans to respond to current and emerging challenges, from security threats and geopolitical tensions to economic vulnerabilities and the accelerating climate crisis, building on the priorities set out in President von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines 2024-2029 […]

This post was contributed by Gilles Cuniberti, Brooke Marshall and Louise Ellen Teitz. They are the authors (with the late Peter Mankowski) of a commentary on the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements forthcoming with Edward Elgar. On 9 October 2025, the CJEU delivered its judgment in Case C-540/24, Cabris Investment already discussed […]