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The third issue of 2024 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. Along with recent case law and materials, it features an article, a collection of debates contributions, and a comment. Article: Cristina Campiglio, Linguaggio e tecniche redazionali nel diritto internazionale privato italiano [Language and Drafting Techniques in Italian Private […]

Adrian Tehrani, who is professor of private law at the University of Montpellier, has published Droit européen de l’insolvabilité (European insolvency law) with Bruylant. The book offers a comprehensive treatment not only of the Insolvency Regulation but also of the Restructuring and Second Chance Directive. It is thus not only focused on private international law, […]

The author of this post is Helga Luku, a PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp. Five months after Advocate General De La Tour delivered his Opinion (see further here), the Court of Justice finally gave its judgment on the Mirin case on 4 October 2024. The Cour ruled that Articles 20 and 21(1) of […]

On 5 February 2024, the Danish government, along with most opposition parties, reached an agreement regarding children born through surrogacy agreements. This political accord aims to address and improve the legal status of children born through surrogacy, particularly in the context of foreign surrogacy arrangements, ensuring their right to legal parents, without the requirement of […]

This post was contributed by Vincent Richard, who practices with Wurth Kinsch Olinger in Luxembourg. On 4 October 2024, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in case C‑494/23 [Mahá]. The decision, which was rendered without an Opinion from the Advocate General, provides a useful clarification on the material scope of Regulation No 1215/2012 (Brussels […]

IE University is seeking applicants for four full-time, tenure-track, positions at the Assistant Professor level at IE Law School (Madrid). The call is open to candidates from all legal fields, with a focus on Private Law, Commercial & Corporate Law, IP Law, Digital & Tech Law, Administrative Law, Environmental & Climate Change Law, and Legal […]

This post has been written by Reef Alfahad, a PhD candidate at King’s College London. On 17 October 2024, a conference on ‘The Anglo-French Approaches to Arbitration’ will take place at King’s College London, UK. This conference will discuss how the French and English approaches differ when dealing with corruption in arbitration and anti-suit injunctions, […]

As reported earlier on this blog, the Cour de cassation ruled in a judgment of 2 October 2024 that a foreign surrogacy recognised in France produces the legal effects provided by foreign law and need not be considered as a full adoption of French law. Background In that case, a couple of French men had […]

This post was written by Mathilde Codazzi, who is a doctoral student at Paris II Pantheon-Assas. On 2 October 2024, the French Cour de cassation issued two decisions regarding respectively the conditions for declaring enforceable foreign judgments establishing legal parentage between a child born abroad to a surrogate mother and the intended parents and the effects […]

The Hague Judgments Convention of 2 July 2019 entered into force for Uruguay on 1 October 2024. Uruguay had ratified it on 1 September 2023. As a result, the Judgments Convention is currently in force for 28 States and one Regional Organization of Economic Integration, namely the European Union. Specifically, the States bound by the […]

The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law (Volume 20, Issue 2) features eight articles. Reid Mortensen & Kathy Reeves, The common law marriage in Australian private international law, 249-279 The common law marriage is a curiosity in the private international law of marriage in the Commonwealth and Ireland. In some cases, a marriage […]

The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the programme of the summer course of Private International Law of 2025. The course will be opened by Linda Silberman (Clarence D. Ashley Professor Emerita at New York University School of Law) with a lecture on Cooperation and Communication in Private International Law. The general course, […]

Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira (University of Lisbon) and António Garcia Rolo (University of Lisbon) edited Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) Regulation – Principles and Perspectives for the Future with Mohr Siebeck. The Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law (CIDP) launched the Lisbon DAO Observatory to address legal challenges surrounding decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and to […]

Wolfgang Hau (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Bart Krans (Leiden University) and Anna Nylund (University of Bergen) edited European Law and National Organisation of Civil Justice with Nomos. The book is part of the Streitbeilegung und Streitvermeidung im Zivilrecht – Schriftenreihe des Munich Center for Dispute Resolution. The book explores the interplay between European law […]

To date, two decisions are scheduled for publication in October in relation to EU private international law instruments. Both will be known on Friday 4. The first one is C- 633/22, Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, a Grand Chamber decision on Regulation 44/2001 (T. von Danwitz as reporting judge). As reported here, the dispute on the […]

In a judgment of 18 September 2024, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) dismissed a challenge to the jurisdiction of French courts over a Lebanese bank which was found to have directed its activity to France. The plaintiff was a consumer domiciled in France who had deposited monies with […]

The author of this post is Nishat Hyder-Rahman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MSCA Impact Fellowship Programme, Department of Private and Economic Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. A previous post on this post discussed the chamber decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verhoeven v France. The case concerned whether the French […]

Emre Esen (Istanbul University) and Melis Avşar (Istanbul University) authored Private International Law in Türkiye with Istanbul University Press. The authors explain that, while teaching private international law in English to Erasmus students at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Law, they noticed a gap: despite the availability of numerous resources on private international law in Turkish, […]

On 26 and 27 June 2025, the University of Graz will host a Private International Law Workshop, following previous editions in Linz (2022), Innsbruck (2023), and Vienna (2024). The workshop, held in German, is being organized by Florian Heindler (SFU Vienna), Simon Laimer (University of Innsbruck), Brigitta Lurger (University of Graz), and Martina Melcher (University […]

The editors of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) welcome abstracts from scholars and practitioners at all stages of their career for the EYIEL 2025. This year’s Focus Section will be on Global Sports and International and European Economic Law. Next to this, the General Section will consider contributions addressing Current Challenges, Developments […]