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On 7 November 2024 the Court of Justice handed down its judgement in Hantoch case (C‑291/23) in which it interpreted jurisdictional rules of Article 10 of the Succession Regulation. The preliminary question originated from Germany, from Landgericht Düsseldorf. Background of the Case and the Doubt of the Referring Court The deceased lived and worked for […]

This post was written by Verena Wodniansky-Wildenfeld. On 28 November 2024, the University of Vienna, in cooperation with the Association Henri Capitant (German and Belgian branches) and the Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law (IACPIL), will host a conference on The Reform of Belgian Property Law and Law of Obligations. The event will […]

This post is authored by Antonio Leandro, Professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Bari. On 14 November 2024, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the Oilchart case (C-394/22 Oilchart International NV v O.W. Bunker (Netherlands) BV, ING Bank NV), which deals with the ‘insolvency exception’ provided in Article […]

On 3 December 2024, at 6 pm UK time, Geert Van Calster (KU Leuven) will give a talk on Muscles from Brussels at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. The event will be delivered in a hybrid format and the readers of the blog are welcome to join either in person or on line. […]

‘Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future‘ is a research project led by the University of Aberdeen with collaborators from the University of Edinburgh, University of Dundee (formerly from Edinburgh Napier University) and international law firm CMS. The third workshop of the project examined the Intra-UK and International Dimensions of Digital Assets […]

The Lindemann Fellowship, generously funded by the Lindemann Foundation, is a newly established initiative aimed at supporting promising academics in the field of private international law. The Fellowship’s primary goal is to provide early-career researchers with the opportunity to build a network with academics from all over Europe. Fellows will, in principle, be accepted for […]

This post was contributed by Fabien Marchadier, who is a professor of private international law at the University of Poitiers. On 4 October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C-633/22 Real Madrid Club de Fútbol v. Société éditrice Le Monde. The judgment explores the relationship between the public policy […]

A Convention on the issue of certificates of matrimonial capacity and capacity to enter into a registered partnership was adopted on 13 September 2024 under the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS). This is in fact the 35th instrument elaborated in the framework of ICCS. As explained by its Explanatory Report, the Convention builds on […]

On 12 December 2024 the University of Milan will host a conference, in English, titled The Enforcement of the ESG Principles in a Transnational Dimension: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, under the scientific direction of Stefania Bariatti, Luigi Fumagalli, Zeno Crespi Reghizzi, Michele Grassi, Anna Liebman. The first session, chaired by Angelica Bonfanti (University of Milan), […]

Javier Carrascosa González (University of Murcia) and Esperanza Castellanos Ruiz (University Carlos III of Madrid) kindly accepted the invitation of the editors of the EAPIL blog to prepare a post as special editors of Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024) of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, issued as a special edition dedicated to Studia Amicorum Alfonso-Luis Calvo […]

On 4 and 5 December 2024, a conference on the Brussels I bis Regulation will take place in Budapest and online. The event is organized by Balázs Arató, Thomas Garber (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Katharina Lugani (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) and Matthias Neumayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz). The aim is to offer a perspective on […]

This post was written by Etienne Farnoux, who is Professor of Private Law at the University of Strasbourg. It is the third contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the UK Supreme Court Judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. The previous contributions, by Manuel Penades and Faidon Varesis can be found […]

This post was written by Faidon Varesis, who is Assistant Professor in Private International Law and International Dispute Resolution at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. It is the second contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the UK Supreme Court Judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC […]

This post was written by Manuel Penades, who is Reader in International Commercial Law at King’s College London. It is the first contribution to the EAPIL online symposium on the UK Supreme Court Judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. Readers are encouraged to participate in the discussion by commenting on the […]

On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court gave the reasons for its unanimous judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. This development was covered by the EAPIL Blog. In brief, the court upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal ([2024] EWCA Civ 64), which had granted an anti-suit injunction to enforce […]

Christian von Bar (University of Osnabrück), Oliver L. Knöfel (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)), Ulrich Magnus (University of Hamburg), Heinz-Peter Mansel (University of Cologne) and Arkadiusz Wudarski (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and University of Szczecin) edited Gedächtnisschrift für Peter Mankowski with Mohr Siebeck. The commemorative volume honours the late Peter Mankowski, who served as […]

The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains four articles, two of which might be of interest for the purposes of private international law. It also contains several case notes and a survey of the most important judgments addressing private international law issues delivered by the CJEU […]

As already noted on this blog, the Children’s Rights Academy at the University of Geneva offers the second edition of the executive training short course on Civil Aspects of International Child Protection (ICPT). Participation in individual modules is also available, with each module open for separate enrolment. The registration deadline for the full programme has been […]

I have already reported on this blog that earlier this year the Law Commission of England and Wales published a call for evidence to help them identify the most challenging and prevalent issues of private international law that arise from the digital, online, and decentralised contexts in which modern digital assets and electronic trade documents […]