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This post was prepared together with Sofiya Kernychna PhD (Jagiellonian University). This post aims at presenting introduction of online marriage in Ukraine and the attitude towards its recognition in neighboring Poland. Digitalisation of Public Services in Ukraine In 2019 the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine introduced a resolution  creating a web portal, a state […]

The European Commission has made public its Report on the application of the Brussels I bis Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (COM(2025)268 of 2 June 2025), together with a Staff Working Document providing further analysis of the issues discussed in the Report (SWD(2025)135). Consistent with […]

An opinion and two hearings are scheduled in June 2025 in relation to requests for preliminary rulings on private international law instruments. On Thursday 12 June, Advocate General N. Emilou will deliver his opinion in case C-77/24, Wunner. The Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court, Austria) has referred two questions to the Court of Justice of the […]

Registrations are open for the 2025 edition of the Summer School on Transnational litigation organized by Michele Lupoi with Marco Farina. The Summer School will run from 13 to 19 July 2025 at the Ravenna Campus of the University of Bologna. Online attendance is also possible. The lectures will cover a broad range of topics […]

Mathieu Combert and Jérémy Heymann are the editors of a book on the Circulation of Companies under EU Law (La circulation des sociétés en droit de l’Union européenne). The purpose of the book is to take stock of the case law of the CJEU and recent EU legislation in the field of company law from […]

The author of this post is Antonio Leandro, Professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Bari (Italy). On 23 January 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) submitted a request for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/848 […]

Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 of 31 July 2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine was from the very beginning doomed to undergo frequent amendment. The first text contained only 14 articles. After the last modification in February 2025 (the thirty-fifth in a row), the number has more […]

On 11–12 June 2025, a conference organized by the Nordic Group for Private International Law (NGPIL) will take place at the Stockholm University. The topic is the politicization of private international law. NGPIL is a network that brings together the shared legal traditions of the Nordic countries, while also embracing the mutual intelligibility of the […]

The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members in participating in a Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions (hereinafter, ‘WG’). The WG, co-chaired by Birgit van Houtert (Netherlands) and Marco Pasqua (Italy), seeks to contribute to the study and development of private international law (PIL) by identifying challenges […]

The author of this post is Jonathan Schenk (University of Antwerp). The EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law will hold its seventh in-person meeting in Antwerp from 22 to 24 May 2025. The University of Antwerp will warmly receive the participants as host of the meeting. Since its establishment nearly four years ago, the […]

On 19 May 2025, the leaders of the European Union (António Costa, President of the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission) and the United Kingdom (Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) met in London for the first EU-UK summit since the UK withdrew from the EU. At the […]

The third issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 has been published. The following English abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. M.F. Müller-Berg, The effects of the new product liability directive on international product liability [German] The concepts of damage, marketing and the person sustaining […]

Under Article 10 of the Spanish Law 14/2006 of 26 May 2003 on assisted human reproduction techniques, gestation agreements, for a price or not, by a woman who renounces to motherhood in favour of a party to the contract or of a third party are null and void. As a rule, the parenthood of children born […]

In preparation of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus) Summer School on Transnational Litigation, already noted on this blog, a warm-up webinar will take place on 19 May 2025, from 6 to 7 pm CET. The session will feature Marco Pasqua (PhD at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) who will speak on […]

The Cambridge Law Journal has published, on First View (that is, online before print), an interesting article by Marcus Teo (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore) on proof of foreign law in English law, titled The Inference of Similarity English courts have long professed to apply a “presumption of similarity” when faced with […]

Recent legislative initiatives in the United States reflect concerns over the extraterritorial implications of Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence (CSDDD). One such initiative consists of a bill titled Prevent Regulatory Overreach from Turning Essential Companies into Targets Act of 2025 (Protect USA Act of 2025), introduced in the US Senate by Senator […]

The European Parliamentary Research Service has recently released a Briefing, by Nikolina Šajn, on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on cooperation among enforcement authorities responsible for the enforcement of Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain. Background The proposal aims at improving farmers’ […]

It has not yet been reported on this blog that a few months ago an interesting collection of essays, under the title Die Achtung des Fremden – Leerformel oder Leitprinzip im Internationalen Privatrecht? (Deference to the Foreign – Empty Phrase or Guiding Principle of Private International Law?), has been published by Mohr Siebeck. Edited by […]

A webinar is being jointly organized by the Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI) and the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to be held on 10 July 2025 from 5:00 to 6:10 PM (Singapore time) / 11:00 AM to 12:10 PM (CEST). The session will focus on two crucial and […]

How are overriding mandatory rules to be defined, in particular, how can they be distinguished from other mandatory rules? When shall a court apply overriding mandatory rules of a third country (other than the lex fori and the lex causae)? When should an international arbitral tribunal apply such rules? These questions have been struggled with […]