EAPIL blog

The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members in participating in a Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions (hereinafter, ‘WG’). The WG, co-chaired by Birgit van Houtert (Netherlands) and Marco Pasqua (Italy), seeks to contribute to the study and development of private international law (PIL) by identifying challenges […]

The author of this post is Jonathan Schenk (University of Antwerp). The EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law will hold its seventh in-person meeting in Antwerp from 22 to 24 May 2025. The University of Antwerp will warmly receive the participants as host of the meeting. Since its establishment nearly four years ago, the […]

On 19 May 2025, the leaders of the European Union (António Costa, President of the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission) and the United Kingdom (Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) met in London for the first EU-UK summit since the UK withdrew from the EU. At the […]

The third issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 has been published. The following English abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. M.F. Müller-Berg, The effects of the new product liability directive on international product liability [German] The concepts of damage, marketing and the person sustaining […]

Under Article 10 of the Spanish Law 14/2006 of 26 May 2003 on assisted human reproduction techniques, gestation agreements, for a price or not, by a woman who renounces to motherhood in favour of a party to the contract or of a third party are null and void. As a rule, the parenthood of children born […]

In preparation of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus) Summer School on Transnational Litigation, already noted on this blog, a warm-up webinar will take place on 19 May 2025, from 6 to 7 pm CET. The session will feature Marco Pasqua (PhD at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) who will speak on […]

The Cambridge Law Journal has published, on First View (that is, online before print), an interesting article by Marcus Teo (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore) on proof of foreign law in English law, titled The Inference of Similarity English courts have long professed to apply a “presumption of similarity” when faced with […]

Recent legislative initiatives in the United States reflect concerns over the extraterritorial implications of Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence (CSDDD). One such initiative consists of a bill titled Prevent Regulatory Overreach from Turning Essential Companies into Targets Act of 2025 (Protect USA Act of 2025), introduced in the US Senate by Senator […]

The European Parliamentary Research Service has recently released a Briefing, by Nikolina Šajn, on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on cooperation among enforcement authorities responsible for the enforcement of Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain. Background The proposal aims at improving farmers’ […]

It has not yet been reported on this blog that a few months ago an interesting collection of essays, under the title Die Achtung des Fremden – Leerformel oder Leitprinzip im Internationalen Privatrecht? (Deference to the Foreign – Empty Phrase or Guiding Principle of Private International Law?), has been published by Mohr Siebeck. Edited by […]

A webinar is being jointly organized by the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI) and the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to be held on 10 July 2025 from 5:00 to 6:10 PM (Singapore time) / 11:00 AM to 12:10 PM (CEST). The session will focus on two crucial and […]

How are overriding mandatory rules to be defined, in particular, how can they be distinguished from other mandatory rules? When shall a court apply overriding mandatory rules of a third country (other than the lex fori and the lex causae)? When should an international arbitral tribunal apply such rules? These questions have been struggled with […]

The second 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. It is also worth mentioning the 2024-2025 edition of the column dedicated to judicial cooperation in civil, criminal and arbitral matters authored by Kamalia Mehtiyeva (University Paris-Est […]

Regarding Private International Law, May 2025 will be a quiet month at the Court of Justice. Subject to updates, there is just one opinion scheduled, to be published on Thursday 22. In case C-279/24, Liechtensteinische Landesbank, AG R. Norkus has been asked to support the Court acting in a chamber of five judges (I. Jarukaitis, […]

In a judgment of 12 March 2025, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) decided that it would not align characterisation for the purpose of its national rules of international jurisdictional with the EU characterisation adopted in Granarolo. As already reported on this blog, a few weeks later, the Court […]

In preparation of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus) Summer School on Transnational Litigation, already noted on this blog, a warm-up webinar will take place on 6 May 2025, from 5 to 6 pm CET. The session will feature Ekaterina Aristova (Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford), who will […]

The second issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 has been published. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. C. Budzikiewicz/H.-P. Mansel/K. Thorn/R. Wagner, European Conflict of Law 2024: Business as usual? [German] This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the field […]

This post was written by Lea Marion who is a Member of the Paris Bar. The legal characterization of claims for abrupt termination of established commercial relationships — an action specific to French law (Article L. 442-1, II of the French Commercial Code) — continues to be a fertile ground for uncertainty and doctrinal debate. […]

Diplomatic agents, consular officers and other persons serving as staff members at a State’s representation abroad mostly move from one State to another throughout their career, sometimes spending no more than a few years, if not months, before they are assigned to a new post at a different location. Their situation illustrates well what the […]

The first issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. It features five contributions. Bruno Nascimbene, Cittadinanza: riflessioni su problemi attuali di diritto internazionale ed europeo [Citizenship: Reflections on Current Issues of International and European Law] The theme of citizenship is the subject of some reflections concerning its […]