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The Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka will be hosting its 2024 Doctoral Conference RIDOC on 13 December 2024. This event is designed for doctoral candidates who want to present and evaluate their preliminary research findings in front of academics, practicing lawyers, and engage in discussions with peers on an international scale. Eligible […]

In a judgment of 23 May 2024, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that French courts have jurisdiction to entertain a paternity claim against French actor Alain Delon. The Court of Appeal of Orleans had declined jurisdiction on the ground that the plaintiff had brought proceedings in France […]

Csongor István Nagy (University of Galway, Ireland; HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungary) authored a book titled Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective, published by Brill in its Law in Eastern Europe series. The book is accessible through the publisher’s website and on SSRN. The abstract provided by the author on […]

Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna and Radboud University Nijmegen) has made available on SSRN the article on Digital Assets in The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Search for the Ideal Rule that is being published on Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 2024. The abstract of the article reads as follows: Which law applies to private […]

As already noted on this blog, a PAX Moot Court Half-Day Conference was held on 26 April 2024, organized by the Centre for Private International Law at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana. The conference titled Private International Law in […]

As already noted 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. An online book launch is scheduled for 10 September 2024, from 10am to 12pm CEST. During this event, several […]

Private International Law in BRICS: Convergence, Divergence and Reciprocal Lessons, edited by Stellina Jolly and Saloni Khanderia, has just been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The blurb reads: This book examines the convergences, divergences and reciprocal lessons that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) share with one another in developing the principles […]

The University of Sheffield will host on 6 September 2024 a symposium to celebrate David McClean’s scholarship over 60 years.  Organised by Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Paul Beaumont and Jonathan Harris, the event is in person only. Speakers include David McClean himself, Roxana Banu (University of Oxford), Jonathan Harris (King’s College London), Campbell McLachlan (University of Cambridge), Hans […]

This post was written by Felix M. Wilke, Bayreuth, although the metaphors almost wrote themselves. Money Does not Grow on Trees… The idea of investing in trees, i.e. in growing valuable types of wood, has popped up in the PIL community at least because of a 2022 judgment by the CJEU (that Matthias Lehmann covered […]

The Children’s Rights Academy at the University of Geneva offers the 2nd edition of the executive training short course on Civil Aspects of International Child Protection (ICPT). The programme includes four half-day online modules in English (Children’s Individual Rights in Transnational Parental Relationships; International and Comparative Family Law; Vulnerable Migration and Practice of Child Protection Stakeholders: Inter-agency Co-operation in Context), scheduled to […]

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. While all contributions are interesting, let me especially highlight the first one, written by Tobias Lutzi, who addresses an issue that permeates the whole European Private International […]

The Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris has recently published an English version of its report issued in May 2024 on The determination of the law applicable to assets registered in distributed ledgers. The report was produced by a working group chaired by Jérôme Chacornac (Paris II University) and Hubert de Vauplane (Kramer […]

Giovanni Chiapponi (University of Florence; previously Bologna University and Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg) has published a book titled Interfaces between National and EU Law. Time Limits in Cross-Border Civil Proceedings and Their Impact on the Free Circulation of Judgemen31t. The book is published by Nomos, in the Luxembourg Legal Studies series. The blurb reads: […]

Crypto-litigation is an increasingly significant business. The “omniterritorial” nature of digital assets has led to judicial competition in this field. As Matthias Lehman usefully summarised in his recent post on this blog, English courts have taken several steps to position England as a (if not the) leading hub for crypto-litigation, including: allowing actions against persons unknown; permitting […]

Nicolas Kyriakides, Heikki A. Huhtamäki and Nicholas Mouttotos have edited European Account Preservation Order – A Multi-jurisdictional Guide with Commentary, on Regulation No 655/2014. The book has just been published by Bruylant / Larcier. This new book on the European Account Preservation Order offers a multi-jurisdictional guide of the Regulation, examining the national operation and […]

As several among our readers (and editors!) are enjoying the summer break, the EAPIL blog will slow down its activity over the next few weeks. There will be just a couple of posts every week until the end of August, when the usual five-post-a-week pace will resume. Have a great summer!

Building on the success of the first edition, a new edition of the EAPIL Winter School is being organized by  the European Association of Private International Law, together with the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria in Como (Italy), with the Law Faculty of the University of Murcia (Spain) and […]

The second issue of the Revue for 2024 is dedicated to the law of migration which, in the French tradition, belongs to private international law. The issue features seven articles which, for most of them, discuss certain aspect of a French statute adopted in January 2024 to control immigration and improve integration. The issue also […]

On 26 and 27 September 2024, an international conference in honour of professor Paul Lagarde, on the occasion of his 90th  birthday, will take place in Paris, at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Centre Sorbonne, Liard Auditorium). It will deal with the international sources of private international law, drawing on the major role that […]

In competition law, a parent company is liable for any infringements of EU competition law by its subsidiary (see CJEU Case C-516/15 P, Akzo Nobel, para 51–57). Both are considered ‘a single economic unity’, notwithstanding their separate legal personalities (id para 53). The question whether this theory also works in the context of Brussels Ibis […]