EAPIL blog

To date, two decisions are scheduled for publication in October in relation to EU private international law instruments. Both will be known on Friday 4. The first one is C- 633/22, Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, a Grand Chamber decision on Regulation 44/2001 (T. von Danwitz as reporting judge). As reported here, the dispute on the […]

In a judgment of 18 September 2024, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) dismissed a challenge to the jurisdiction of French courts over a Lebanese bank which was found to have directed its activity to France. The plaintiff was a consumer domiciled in France who had deposited monies with […]

The author of this post is Nishat Hyder-Rahman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MSCA Impact Fellowship Programme, Department of Private and Economic Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. A previous post on this post discussed the chamber decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verhoeven v France. The case concerned whether the French […]

Emre Esen (Istanbul University) and Melis Avşar (Istanbul University) authored Private International Law in Türkiye with Istanbul University Press. The authors explain that, while teaching private international law in English to Erasmus students at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Law, they noticed a gap: despite the availability of numerous resources on private international law in Turkish, […]

On 26 and 27 June 2025, the University of Graz will host a Private International Law Workshop, following previous editions in Linz (2022), Innsbruck (2023), and Vienna (2024). The workshop, held in German, is being organized by Florian Heindler (SFU Vienna), Simon Laimer (University of Innsbruck), Brigitta Lurger (University of Graz), and Martina Melcher (University […]

The editors of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) welcome abstracts from scholars and practitioners at all stages of their career for the EYIEL 2025. This year’s Focus Section will be on Global Sports and International and European Economic Law. Next to this, the General Section will consider contributions addressing Current Challenges, Developments […]

As announced on this blog, the second edition of the European Association of Private International Law Winter School will take place in Como between 10 and 15 February 2025. Organised by the University of Insubria, in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Murcia, the 2025 edition of the Winter School […]

On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court finally gave the reasons for its unanimous judgment (Lord Leggatt, with whom Lord Reed, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows and Lady Rose agreed), announced on 23 April 2024, in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. It upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal ([2024] […]

This post is authored by Antonio Leandro, Professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Bari. On 19 September 2024, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in case C-501/23 DL v Land Berlin, which deals with the functioning of the COMI in Regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings (‘EIR’). The Court […]

As announced on this blog, Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo) edited Research Methods in Private International Law – A Handbook on Regulation, Research and Teaching. Following the previous online book launch, an additional one is scheduled for 23 September 2024, from 10am to 11:30am CEST. Similar […]

On 8 October 2024, Jeremy Heymann and Marylou Françoise will host a conference on International Commercial Courts, State Model(s) of Specialised (Domestic) Courts? at the University of Lyon 3. A first panel will give the perspective of judges sitting on three international commercial courts (French, German, Dutch). A second panel will give an academic perspective […]

According to Article 12(1)(a) of Regulation 2020/1784 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (the Recast Service Regulation), the addressee may refuse service if the document is not written in, or is not accompanied by a translation into, “a language which the addressee understands”. The […]

Oxford University Press has recently published The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property – A Commentary, edited by Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, Andrzej Jakubowski and Alessandro Chechi. The 900-page long book is part of the Commentaries on International Cultural Heritage Law series. The UNESCO Convention of 14 November 1970 […]

The latest issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) has been published. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. Th. Klink, The Commercial Court according to the Justizstandort-Stärkungsgesetz (Legal Venue Strengthening Act) – a model project for cross-border court proceedings The Legal Venue Strengthening Act allows […]

Private International Law in Russia, by Anton Asoskov, Daria Levina and Milana Karayanidi, has just been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The blurb reads: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Russian private international law (PIL) for the foreign lawyer. The book carefully examines the applicable conflict of law and jurisdictional rules on the basis […]

The 19th Regional Private International Law Conference will take place on 20 September 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the Deutche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). The theme of the Conference is Application of General Legal Principles in Contemporary Private International Law. The opening panel will […]

A dedicated website for the Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ) project has been launched. Started in September 2020 by the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law led by Burkhard Hess with support from the Luxembourg Research Fund FNR, in January 2024 the CPLJ project and the Institute were transferred to the University of […]

The second issue of 2024 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. Along with recent case law and materials, it features four contributions. Sara Tonolo, Il contributo degli studiosi italiani ai corsi de L’Aja di diritto internazionale privato (1973-2023) [The Contribution of Italian Scholars to The Hague Academy Courses on […]

The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It also pays tribute to Ibrahim Fadlallah (1942-2024) who was a leading Lebanese-French academic and arbitrator. In the first article, Daniel Mainguy (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) uncovers […]

The author of this post is Nishat Hyder-Rahman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MSCA Impact Fellowship Programme, Department of Private and Economic Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. On 28 March 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on the case of Verhoeven v France. The case concerned whether the French courts’ application of the Hague Convention […]