Agrégateur de flux

La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) a rejeté, le 6 octobre 2016, un recours contre la France critiquant l’ingérence dans le droit au respect des biens que constituent les servitudes d’inconstructibilité sur le littoral.

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Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Le droit de l’Union s’applique à une action en annulation de mariage introduite par un tiers postérieurement au décès de l’un des époux

On 7 October 2016, Turkey ratified the 1996 Hague Convention the Protection of Children and the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. Both Conventions will enter into force for Turkey on 1 February 2017.

Il 7 ottobre 2016, la Turchia ha ratificato la Convenzione dell’Aja del 1996 sulla protezione dei minori e la Convenzione dell’Aja del 2007 sulle obbligazioni alimentari. I due strumenti saranno internazionalmente in vigore per la Turchia dal 1° febbraio 2017.

Faute de reclassement, dans le délai d’un mois qui suit l’examen médical de reprise, du salarié sous contrat à durée déterminée déclaré inapte à la suite d’un accident ou d’une maladie non professionnelle, l’employeur doit reprendre le paiement des salaires correspondant à l’emploi occupé avant la suspension du contrat.

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The EU Succession Regulation – A Commentary, edited by Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca, Angelo Davì, Heinz-Peter Mansel, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 9781107127302, GBP 125.

The European Succession Regulation is a landmark in the field of EU private international law. It unifies the conflicts of laws, jurisdiction and recognition of foreign judgments and some other legal instruments in the field of succession and wills. This volume provides an article-by-article commentary on the individual provisions of the Regulation, introduced by an overview of its general framework and underlying principles. As a reference tool for the Regulation, this book is intended to promote a high standard of interpretation and application. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, it uses a comparative approach in its analysis to enrich the academic debate and highlight the problems likely to arise in the practical application of the Regulation.

The University of Rome La Sapienza will host a conference, on 13 October 2016, on the occasion of the publication of the book. Speakers include Cristina Campiglio (Univ. Pavia), Sergio Maria Carbone (Univ. Genova), Javier Carrascosa González (Univ. Murcia), Claudio Consolo (Univ. Roma La Sapienza), Erik Jayme (Univ. Heidelberg), Peter Kindler (LMU Munich), Paolo Pasqualis (Italian Council of Notaries), Ugo Villani (Univ. Bari).

Il 13 ottobre 2016, si svolgerà a Roma, all’Università La Sapienza, un convegno in occasione della pubblicazione del volume. Interverranno, fra gli altri, Cristina Campiglio (Univ. Pavia), Sergio Maria Carbone (Univ. Genova), Javier Carrascosa González (Univ. Murcia), Claudio Consolo (Univ. Roma La Sapienza), Erik Jayme (Univ. Heidelberg), Peter Kindler (LMU Monaco), Paolo Pasqualis (Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato), Ugo Villani (Univ. Bari).

Transports aériens ; Transport de personnes

On 27–28 October 2016, Professor Amnon Lehavi (Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate at Radzyner School of Law, Israel, and currently Global Chair at Tilburg University, Netherlands) and Anna Berlee (Tilburg Law School) will host an international expert meeting of speakers representing all areas of property law, from the Netherlands and abroad. The workshop will study the various challenges that processes of globalisation pose to the different fields of property law, from land law to tangible and intangible goods, intellectual property, property aspects of family law and new outer-world cyberspace and outer space property. Further details will be available here shortly. Those interested in participating should contact Anna Berlee at a.berlee@tilburguniversity.edu.

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Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
L’acquéreur initial d’une copie d’un programme d’ordinateur, accompagnée d’une licence d’utilisation illimitée, peut revendre d’occasion cette copie et sa licence à un sous-acquéreur

On 28 October 2016, the University of Florence will host a conference devoted to ‘New instruments to promote the proper application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. A discussion with the EU Institution and national actors on the results and future perspectives of the Charterclick! Project’. The programme is available here.

Il 28 ottobre 2016, l’Università di Firenze ospiterà un convegno dedicato al tema “Nuovi strumenti per promuovere la corretta applicazione della Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea. Una discussione con le istituzioni dell’Unione Europea e gli attori nazionali sui risultati e le prospettive future del Progetto Charterclick!. Il programma dell’evento è disponibile qui.

 

On 5 October 2016, the United Kingdom notified the Council of the European Union, in accordance with Article 3(1) of the Protocol (No 21) to the Treaties on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice, that it intends to take part in the adoption and application of the proposed regulation on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (the recast Brussels II regulation). A similar communication has been made by Ireland.

Il 5 ottobre 2016, il Regno Unito ha reso noto al Consiglio dell’Unione europea, in base all’art. 3, par. 1, del Protocollo (n. 21) allegato ai Trattati relativo alla posizione del Regno Unito e dell’Irlanda circa lo spazio di libertà, sicurezza e giustizia, che intende prendere parte all’adozione e all’applicazione del regolamento sulla competenza giurisdizionale, il riconoscimento e l’esecuzione delle decisioni in materia di matrimoniale e di responsabilità genitoriale, e sulla sottrazione internazionale di minori (regolamento Bruxelles II rifuso, di cui vedi qui la proposta). Una analoga comunicazione è stata fatta dall’Irlanda.

Par un arrêt rendu le 21 septembre 2016, la grande chambre de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) raye une requête du rôle, estimant que la poursuite de celle-ci ne se justifie plus.

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Entreprise en difficulté

The Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution at EBS Law School will host a lecture on extraterritoriality in transnational regulation. Professor Dr. Hannah L. Buxbaum, John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, will talk about the special problem of private enforcement in this context.

Background: In 2000, the European Community filed a lawsuit against RJR Nabisco (RJR) in U.S. federal court, alleging violations of the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In 2016, the litigation came to a close. The Supreme Court held that RICO does apply to certain forms of foreign conduct – however, it concluded that RICO’s private cause of action does not extend to claims based on injuries suffered outside the United States, and therefore denied the European Community any recovery. The effect of this decision, which builds on other recent decisions of the Court, is to constrain quite significantly the application of U.S. regulatory law in cross-border cases. 

The talk will explore the extraterritorial application of domestic regulatory law as a tool of transnational regulation. In particular, it will address the special challenges created when it is private plaintiffs, rather than state agencies, that seek to apply that law.

The Lecture will be held on 18 October 2016 at 6.30 p.m. in Lecture Room “Sydney” at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. For further information see here.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

 

Thank you Cozen O’Connor for alerting me. California’s Senate Bill 1241 was signed into law at the end of September. It will apply to employment contracts entered into, modified, or extended on or after 1 January 2017.

The Bill will feature in a forthcoming article that I am co-authoring with Jutta Gangsted. I have not (yet) studied the preparatory work in detail however the Bill immediately calls for comparative analysis with the EU’s’ approach to this particular ‘protected category’: what is a labour (employment) contract; how does ‘primarily resides and works in California’ compare with ‘habitually carries out his work’ and ‘domicile’; when exactly is a contract ‘modified’ (on this see for the EU, Nikiforidis). The starting point of both the California and the EU rules is the same: employees cannot be considered to really consent to either choice of law or choice of court hence any clause doing same will be subject to mandatory limitations.

Geert.