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This post was written by Dr Franziska Arnold-Dwyer, Associate Professor of Law at University College London (UCL). On 24 November 2025, the Privy Council handed down judgment in Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd v Ivanishvili [2025] UKPC 53 in an appeal from the Court of Appeal for Bermuda. By way of background, it is worth […]

The decision in case C-240/24, BNP Paribas Fortis, will be delivered on 18 December. After a Belgium bank refused to acknowledge the legitimation effect of a European Certificate of Succession issued in Poland, the issuing notary (the Notary in Krapkowice Justyna Gawlica – Krapkowice, Poland) started on its own motion proceedings to withdraw the certificate. […]

The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members to participate in a Working Group on the Jurisdiction Project of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The immediate goal of the EAPIL Working Group would be to answer to the public consultation on the draft text developed by […]

Had someone asked me before 11 December 2025 to select three key principles underlying the application of Article 6 of the Rome Convention and Article 8 of the Rome I Regulation, dealing with the law applicable to individual employment contracts, I would probably have listed the following: Identical interpretation of the connecting factor of the […]

Leonard Maximilian Wagner is the author of Die internationalprivatrechtliche Qualifikation, a monograph on the issue fo characterisation, or qualification, as it arises in the context of conflict-of-laws rules, recently published by Mohr Siebeck in its Studien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht series. Since its discovery, the question of how to identify the relevant choice of […]

This post was written by Marco Pasqua (PhD, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan). It is the final contribution to the EAPIL on-line symposium on the judgment of the Court of Justice in Cupriak-Trojan. The previous posts were written by Laima Vaige, Alina Tryfonidou, Elizabeth Perry and Anna Wysocka-Bar, and can be found […]

The third edition of the EAPIL Winter School will take place in Como between 2 and 6 February 2026. The upcoming edition’s general topic is Values in Private International Law. Day 1 will be about the protection of weaker contractual parties. The concerns surrounding torts will be dealt with in Day 2. Day 3, on […]

This post was written by Anna Wysocka-Bar (Jagiellonian University). It is the fourth contribution to the EAPIL on-line symposium on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Cupriak-Trojan. The previous posts, by Laima Vaige, Alina Tryfonidou and Elizabeth Perry, can be found here, here and here, respectively. In this post I would […]

This post was written by Elizabeth Stuart Perry, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Law at Uppsala University and a Californian attorney. It is the third contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Cupriak Trojan. The previous posts, by Laima Vaige and Alina […]

This post was written by Alina Tryfonidou, Assistant Professor in EU law and Family law at the University of Cyprus. It is the second contribution to the EAPIL on-line symposium on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Cupriak Trojan. The previous post, by Laima Vaige, can be found here. […]

This post was written by Laima Vaigė, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Private International Law at Uppsala University. It is the first contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the ruling of the Court of Justice in Cupriak-Trojan. The Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a landmark Grand Chamber judgment in Cupriak-Trojan (C-713/23) […]

The Court of Justice gave on 25 November 2025 its much-awaited judgment in Cupriak-Trojan (C-713/23). The ruling clarified the implications of Article 20 and Article 21(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), concerning the citizenship of the Union, for the recognition of same-sex marriages across the Member States of the EU. […]

The latest volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law is out. Edited by Andrea Bonomi and Ilaria Pretelli, it is the first volume of the Yearbook published by Brill. The volume consists of six sections: the usual “Doctrine” section; a section on choice of court agreements; a section on court decisions; a section exploring […]

Maria Victoria Cuartero Rubio (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Jose Manuel Velasco Retamosa (University of Castilla-La Mancha) edited El Derecho de Familia a la luz del derecho fundamental europeo al respeto a la vida familiar (Family Law in Light of the European Fundamental Right to Respect for Family Life) with Aranzadi. The book, part of […]

The general course of international law that Professor Campbell McLachlan (University of Cambridge) gave at the Hague Academy of International Law On the Interface Between Public and Private International Law was published in volume 446 of the Collected Courses of the Academy. Our understanding of the operation of law beyond the State has been deeply shaped by two […]

This post was contributed by Burkhard Hess, who is professor at the University of Vienna. On 2 December 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice gave its long-awaited judgment in case C-34/34, Apple Store Nederland. The Court went for a fundamental expansion of Article 7(2) of the Brussels I bis Regulation (in the […]

Care Proceedings with an International Element, by Maria Sofia Wright, a practicing English solicitor, has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The blurb reads: Presenting the findings of a study of 100 care cases, this book provides rigorous analysis of how jurisdictional issues are determined and how information sharing of child protection operates across borders. It […]

Georgia Antonopoulou (University of Birmingham) and Ekaterina Pannebakker (Leiden University) have issued a call for papers in view of a roundtable that will take place at the University of Birmingham, on 14 May 2026, under the title Bridging Jurisdictions: Rethinking Commercial Conflicts of Laws 10 Years After Brexit. The roundtable will focus on highlighting cooperation opportunities in commercial conflicts […]

Before the Christmas break (from 22 December 2025 to 11 January 2026), the Court of Justice will publish several decisions and opinions related to private international law. As of 30 November 2025, the scheduled calendar includes the decision of 2 December in case C-34/24, Right to Consumer Justice et Stichting App Stores Claims. The main […]

This post was written by Birgit van Houtert and Marco Pasqua, co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions, as report of the Working Group’s second meeting. This post follows up on the report (Part I). The second meeting of the Working Group provided an overview of a selection of national transposition acts […]