EAPIL blog

As the readers of this blog will recall, the Lindemann Fellowship for Private International Law was established in 2024 to provide early-career researchers with the opportunity to build a network with academics from all over Europe. Fellows are accepted for a three-year period, with new Fellows joining each year, as existing Fellows complete their tenure. […]

On 18 September 2025, the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana will be hosting a conference on the occasion of the annual meeting of GEDIP, the European Group of Private International Law, due to take place in the following days (the latter meeting is only open the Group’s members). The event consists of […]

The Law Commission of England and Wales is reviewing how private international law operates in the context of electronic trade documents and digital assets. As previously reported on this blog, on 5 June 2025 the Law Commission published a consultation paper (paper; summary) proposing reform to certain rules of private international law that apply in the context […]

On 20 August 2025, from 11 to 12 am UK time, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will host a webinar featuring Caroline Rapatz (Kiel University) on Beyond State Borders, Beyond the Situs Rule? Private International Law Issues of Resource Extraction in Antarctica, the Deep Seabed, and Outer Space. The webinar […]

The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 has been published. It features the proceedings of the international conference held in honour of the distinguished Austrian-American conflicts scholar Albert A. Ehrenzweig, which took place in Vienna in June 2024 under the scientific coordination of Matthias Lehmann and Florian Heindler. In addition, this […]

A recent judgment from the Swedish Supreme Court interprets the principle judgments from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) holding arbitration in investment arbitration as incompatible with EU law as conservatively as possible by allowing for invalidation only for “EU internal” relations. Hence, the arbitral award is upheld in relation to a Swiss […]

The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law (Volume 21, Issue 1) features eight articles. Pietro Franzina, Cristina González Beilfuss, Jan von Hein, Katja Karjalainen & Thalia Kruger, Cross-border protection of adults: what could the EU do better?, 1-29 On 31 May 2023 the European Commission published two proposals on the protection of adults. […]

The author of this post is Federica Sartori, PhD student at the University of Pavia. A pending case, Tatrauskė (C-789/23), offers the Court of Justice an opportunity to rule on the relationship between the EU citizens’ right to free movement and residence under Article 21 TFEU and national legislation on the registration of marriage property […]

The EAPIL blog will be publishing fewer posts than usual in the course of August. As in previous years, there will be no more than two or three posts per week until 25 August, when we plan to resume our usual pace. Potential guests are encouraged to keep submitting their proposals at blog@eapil.org, in the […]

A collection of essays titled Europäisierung des Zivilrechts, edited by Guido Kosmehl, Steffen Pabst and István Varga, has been published by C.H. Beck to celebrate the 70th birthday of Thomas Rauscher. It comes with some thirty contributions, mostly in German, dealing with a variety of topics in the area of private law and private international […]

Today (1 August 2025), the Arbitration Act 2025 comes into force. This is provided by the Arbitration Act 2025 (Commencement) Regulations 2025. The Act applies to arbitration proceedings commenced on or after today, as well as to court proceedings in connection with arbitration that falls within the temporal scope of the Act (section 17(4)(a)). The […]

The Special Interest Group established in the framework of the European Law Institute (ELI) to deal with family and succession law plans to award of a prize recognizing outstanding doctoral theses in Comparative Family Law, Comparative Succession Law, and Comparative or European Private International Law in the field of family or succession. A call has […]

The registrations for the Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2026 are open. The 2026 edition of the Centre will focus on Cyberspace and International Law. The Directors of Research will be Mohamed S. Helal (Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law) for the English-speaking section, and Lukas Rass-Masson (University of Toulouse) for […]

In 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in its KK and Others v. Denmark judgment that Denmark had violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by its legislative measures trying to prevent commercial surrogacy arrangements (reported for the blog here). Measures were taken by Danish institutions in response […]

The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It is also worth mentioning a contribution on (public) international law that echoes a special issue of the Journal, published earlier this year to mark its 150th anniversary. In […]

Nadia Rusinova has recently published an open access book titled Practical Handbook on EU Family Law. Part I: Key Concepts, Legal Terminology, and CJEU Case Law in Cross-Border Judicial Cooperation (2025).The Handbook can be downloaded from the Author’s website here. The blurb reads as follows: The EU Family Law Handbook is a unique, practitioner-focused resource, […]

The author of this post is Pierfancesco Rossi, tenured researcher of International Law at the University of Teramo. On 5 June 2025, the Hague Court of Appeal declined to grant exequatur to a Ukrainian judgment holding Russian energy giant Gazprom jointly and severally liable for material damages incurred during Russia’s invasion of the country. The […]

At the University of Vienna, a Chair for Comparative Law and Private International Law will become vacant in 2026 (current holder: Professor Helmut Ofner). We are looking for experts around the world.   The role will primarily involve teaching and research in private international law and comparative law. Knowledge of the German language and the […]

The second issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. It features three contributions. Francesco Pesce, Il riconoscimento delle decisioni straniere in materia civile tra previsioni sulla competenza funzionale del giudice interno e comunicazioni alla Commissione europea [Recognition of Foreign Decisions in Civil Matters between Provisions on the […]

The authors of this post are Birgit van Houtert and Marco Pasqua, co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. The post is the result of the collective work of the members of the Working Group. On 27 June 2025, the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions held its first online meeting, […]