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The German Parliament has adopted a reform of the law of names, including private international law, to enter into force in mid-2025. It includes a ground-breaking change from the classic connecting factor, nationality, to habitual residence. This seems to be a new trend: the incoming Austrian coalition government also plans a similar shift. The Text […]

On 24 March 2025, at 6pm UK time, Marta Pertegás (Maastricht University; University of Antwerp; a fulltime member of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law between 2008 and 2017) and Alex Mills (UCL; a Specialist Editor of Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws, with particular responsibility for, […]

The decision in case C-57/24, Ławida, has been scheduled for delivery on 27 March 2025. The Sąd Okręgowy w Gliwicach (Poland) has referred to the Court of Justice the following question: Must Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 [on succession] be interpreted as meaning that it does not apply in a situation where, in […]

The EAPIL’s Young Research Network has just launched its fifth research project, which is being led by Mathilde Codazzi, Paul Eichmüller and Marco Pasqua. The project will focus on the national rules governing the law applicable to non-contractual obligations arising out of privacy and personality rights. The aim of the project is to enable a […]

The latest issue of the RabelsZ (Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht) has been published. Since 2024, RabelsZ has been an open access publication, with all articles freely available to readers online. The focal point of the first issue of 2025 is international and comparative family law, with contributions critically examining the interactions between […]

Louise Ellen Teitz (Roger Williams University School of Law) has posted Harmonizing Private International Law and International Private Law Through Softlaw on SSRN. The abstract of the article, a homage to Symeon Symeonides and set to be published in the Willamette Law Review, reads as follows: This article, prepared for a celebration of the career […]

On 4 March 2025, Prof. Thomas Kadner-Graziano presented publicly on line the project of research and the achievements to date of the EAPIL’s Working Group on the Feasibility of a European Private International Law Act (to which I belong). A few days earlier, the EAPIL blog had informed about an article of Prof. K. Boele-Woelki […]

The UK Supreme Court judgment in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30, upholding an anti-suit injunction restraining Russian proceedings brought in violation of an arbitration agreement providing for a seat in France, has caused significant interest. We covered it on the EAPIL Blog in a post noting the judgment and in a […]

The Riga Graduate School of Law will host on 7 and 8 June 2025 a conference to discuss the current weaknesses of EU private international law and share suggestions for improvements. The event aims to cover all areas of EU private international law. Those interested at making a presentation at the conference, are invited to […]

The conclusions and decisions adopted by the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International at its 2025 meeting, which ended today, have just been made available here. Ongoing Projects In the coming months, additional meetings will be convened of the Working Groups in charge of the Parentage / […]

The Court of Justice gave on 6 March 2025 its ruling in Anikovi. The case concerns the scope of application of the Brussels II ter Regulation on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and its relationship with conventions concluded by a Member State with a […]

On 27 February 2025, the research services of the European Parliament published on line a briefing authored by David de Groot, entitled Surrogacy: The legal situation in the EU, setting out the legal situation in the EU regarding surrogacy. The document provides a good, well-researched and easy-to-follow introduction to the topic. In 17 pages, it […]

The author of this post is Lydia Lundstedt, who is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University and Linköping University. In the interest of transparency, the author makes known that she previously wrote an expert legal opinion on behalf of BSH Hausgeräte. On 25 February 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice […]

Building on the success of the two previous editions (here and here), a new edition of the EAPIL Winter School is currently being organized by the European Association of Private International Law and the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria in Como, in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the […]

The European Commission has published on 26 February 2026 a proposal for a directive amending Directives 2006/43, 2013/34, 2022/2464 and 2024/1760 concerning certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, as part of its Omnibus Simplification Package. The explanatory memorandum highlights that business associations have raised concerns about the regulatory burden resulting, inter alia, from […]

This month starts with the publication, on Thursday 6, of the decision in case C-395/23, Anikovi, reported here, on the interpretation of Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 (Brussels II ter Regulation) and its relation to an international treaty between a Member State and a third one. The Sofiyski rayonen sad (Sofia District Court, Bulgaria) referred to the […]

A new issue of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht is now available. It comes with contributions on EU private law, comparative law and legal history, unification of law, private international law, and individual European private law regimes. The full table of content can be accessed here. The following contributions might be of particular interest […]

On 27 February 2025, the CJEU delivered its ruling in Case C‑537/23, Società Italiana Lastre SpA (SIL) v. Agora SARL. The case was referred by the French Cour de cassation which, at last, asked the CJEU whether asymmetric jurisdiction clauses are valid under the Brussels I bis Regulation. As is well known, the Cour de […]

The legislative work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) currently revolves around eight projects. The Jurisdiction Project occupies a prominent position in this context. With the conclusion of the Judgments Convention, in 2019, the focus of the normative work of the HCCH in the area of civil and commercial law turned to […]

Stefan Arnold (University of Münster) and Bettina Heiderhoff (University of Münster) edited Children in Migration and International Family Law – The Child’s Best Interests Principle at the Interface of Migration Law and Family Law with Springer. The book, part of the EU-funded FAMIMOVE project, explores the challenges faced by children and families migrating to the […]