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On 16 April 2026, the Court of Justice rendered its judgment in Electricity & Water Authority of the Government of Bahrain and Others v Prysmian and Others and Smurfit Kappa and Others v Unilever and Others (Joined Cases C-672/23 and C-673/23), concerning the interpretation of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis) […]

The first issue of 2026 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht contains the following articles and case note which might be of interest for the readers of the EAPIL blog: Ignacio Tirado, UNIDROIT on the Occasion of Its (first) 100 Years The editorial traces the UNIDROIT’s origins and evolution, reflects on how it has […]

Tobias Lutzi, Ennio Piovesani and Dora Zgrabljic Rotar have edited Recognition and Enforcement of Non-EU Judgments, a collection of essays resulting from a project run under the same name by the Young Research Network of EAPIL. This book examines the EU Member States’ national rules on recognition and enforcement of Non-EU judgments. Through its country […]

This post was contributed by Dr. Mohammed Rakib-ul-Hassan who is currently serving as a Professor at Geneva Business School. The digitalisation of commerce has fundamentally altered the landscape of cross-border disputes. Traditional private international law (PIL), built upon territorial connecting factors such as domicile, habitual residence, and place of performance, is increasingly strained in addressing […]

This post was written by Lorène Anthonioz, who is PhD candidate in Private International Law at the University of Geneva and a Research and Teaching Assistant in Private International Law at UniDistance. On 15 September 2025, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court issued a judgment in case 4A_129/2024. Applying the CJEU case law, the Court ruled, for […]

The author of this post is Ulf Maunsbach who is a professor of private international law at Lund University. On 5–6 March 2026, the Swedish Network for International Family Law (SNIF) organized a conference in Lund on cooperation in international family law. SNIF is a newly established network intended to serve as a meeting place […]

On 15 December 2025, a French Report on the Applicable Law to Generative AI Models Available in the European Union has been published under the auspices of the advisory body to the French Minister of Culture on intellectual property (CSLPA). Tristan Azzi (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne Law School) and Yves El Hage (University […]

On 20 March 2026 the Supreme Administrative Court in Poland handed down the decision following Cupriak-Trojan case (C-713/23, commented on this blog within an on-line symposium here, here, here, here, here and here; and additionally here; Opinion of the AG de la Tour in this case was also commented on the blog – here). Facts […]

The Court of Justice will resume its work on Monday 13th, after the Easter break.  On Thursday 16th, it will deliver its judgment in joined cases C-672/23, Electricity & Water Authority of the Government of Bahrain e.a. and C-673/23, Smurfit Kappa Europe e.a. A hearing had taken place on January 2025; Advocate general J. Kokott’s […]

The Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), in collaboration with the Institut Català Internacional per la Pau (ICIP) and the Centre d’Estudis de Dret Ambiental de Tarragona (CEDAT), has launched a call for abstracts for the international conference SLAPP, Activism and Human Rights: Legal and Social Challenges in the Defense of the Environment, to be […]

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 third meeting. This post follows up on the report (Part I). The third meeting of the Working Group continued with an in-depth discussion structured around a case study, […]

This post was written by Birgit van Houtert and Marco Pasqua, co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. It is the first part of a report on the Working Group’s third meeting. This post continues with the report (Part II). On 19 March 2026, the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions […]

The Governing Bodies of the European Association of Private International Law are about to be renewed. As announced a few weeks ago, elections will be held for both the Board of Administration and the Scientific Council of the Association in accordance with the EAPIL Statutes in the run up to the the next EAPIL Conference, […]

This post was written by Lorène Anthonioz, who is PhD candidate in Private International Law at the University of Geneva and a Research and Teaching Assistant in Private International Law at UniDistance. With effect from 1 January 2026, Switzerland amended its declaration under the 1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and […]

The author of this post is Lino Bernard, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Mainz, Germany. He developed the following thoughts in the course of his PhD thesis on parallel proceedings and jurisdiction agreements and has recently published a note on the preliminary reference of the German Federal Supreme Court in EuZW (European Journal of […]

On 24 and 25 September 2026,the University of Edinburgh Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will host the second Private International Law Festival in Edinburgh on The End of Rule-Based International Order? – Implications for Private International Law. The Festival aims to make progress on the following questions: what impact do current geopolitical shifts have […]

A call for papers and panels has recently been issued by Michiel Poesen (University of Aberdeen) and Patricia Živković (University of Aberdeen), co-convenors of the Private International Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars 117th Annual Conference at University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich from 2 to 4 September 2026. The call is reproduced […]

The author of this post is Iina Tornberg, who is a project researcher at the University of Eastern Finland and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. The judgment rendered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 16 December 2025 addressed the protection of family life in a case involving the return […]

The authors of this post are Mathilde Codazzi (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University), Paul Eichmüller (University of Vienna) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), co-Chairs of the EAPIL Young Research Network.  As already noted on this blog, the EAPIL Young Research Network (YRN) will hold its 5th Project Final Conference on Privacy […]

This post was written by Artur Doržinkevič and Ana Kiknadze, PhD candidates at Mykolas Romeris University, and Working Group members for Lithuania in the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. On 18 December 2025, the Lithuanian legislator adopted amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure (“CPC”) and other domestic laws, thereby transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1069 […]