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The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice has rendered today, 25 February 2025, its much awaited ruling on case C-339/22, BSH Hausgeräte. The Court was requested to clarify the scope of Article 24(4) of Regulation No 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis) as regards disputes relating to the infringement of patent rights when the invalidity of […]

German law shall be applied to a non-contractual obligations arising out of wrongful components in ship engines built in Germany, the Norwegian Supreme Court held in a  judgment rendered on 17 December 2024. Regardless of the fact that the Rome II Regulation is not binding for Norway and that it was not applicable in the […]

The upcoming edition of the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-Border Litigation and International Arbitration will be held between 13-19 July 2025 in Ravenna (Italy), hosted by the University of Bologna. The Summer School is aimed at law students as well as law graduates and law practitioners who wish to develop a better knowledge of international […]

The EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law has been working for almost four years on a draft instrument on the applicable law to property rights in tangible assets. It has held regular meetings, including six in person meetings in various parts of Europe. The Working Group will next meet in Antwerp in May 2025 […]

The Spanish publisher Marcial Pons has published in 2024 a collection of essays edited by Maria Font-Mas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) titled Private International Law on Rights in rem in the European Union. Some of the contributions are in Spanish, others in English. Free online access to the whole book is provided here. The essays collected […]

Katharina Boele-Woelki (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg), has posted The next step in the unification of private international law in Europe: should it be codification? on SSRN. The abstract of the paper, a homage to Symeon Symeonides, reads as follows. This contribution reflects on some issues of European private international law. More than a quarter of a […]

The first issue of the Journal du droit international (JDI, Clunet) for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In her contribution, Sandrine Clavel (University of Paris-Saclay) analyses the recently adopted Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (“CS3D”) through the lens of European economic […]

This post was written by Birgit van Houtert, Assistant Professor of Private International Law at Maastricht University. It builds on an article titled ‘The Anti-SLAPP Directive in the Context of EU and Dutch Private International Law: Improvements and (Remaining) Challenges to Protect SLAPP targets’, featured in issued 4 of 2024 of Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht. Apart from providing […]

This post was written by Silvia Marino, Professor of EU law at the University of Insubria in Como, and Director of the EAPIL Winter School. The second edition of the EAPIL Winter School in European Private International Law took place at the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria in Como […]

The French Journal du Droit International, also known as Clunet after the name of its founder, celebrates its 150th birthday. On this occasion, a celebratory volume will soon be published. It contains 16 articles which each comments on one of the groundbreaking articles published in the Journal in the past decades. In accordance with the […]

The Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen will host, on 6 June 2025, the third Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre, under the title New Dimensions in Private International Law. The event is an opportunity for early career scholars working in the private international law to come together […]

A webinar of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Conflict of Laws Issues in International Arbitration will take place on 18 February 2025. The webinar will be held in two sessions with identical content, to accommodate participants around the world. Here are the zoom links: Session 1 (8 AM London, 9 AM Berlin, 4 PM […]

On 11 February 2025, the European Commission adopted its 2025 work programme, titled Moving forward together: A Bolder, Simpler, Faster Union. Consistent with the political priorities set out last year for the period 2024-2029, the programme contemplates measures aimed, inter alia, at strengthening economic competitiveness, responding to geopolitical instability, addressing migration and climate change and safeguarding European […]

On 20 February 2025, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan will host a seminar in English titled International Successions between EU Member States and Turkey. The main speaker will be Biset Sena Güneş (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg), while Gregor Christandl (University of Graz) will intervene as […]

Readers of the EAPIL Blog may recall that in late 2023 the High Court of England and Wales applied the forum non conveniens doctrine and refused to hear the dispute in Limbu v Dyson Technology Ltd [2023] EWHC 2592 (KB), thus giving the defendants what I called a ‘Brexit Dividend’. I set out the facts […]

After the first successful conferences in Aarhus (2022) and Wroclaw (2024), the European Association of Private International Law is set to hold its next conference in Geneva, on 18, 19 and 20 June 2026. The title chosen for the conference is Shaping the Future of Private International Law in Europe. Further details on both the […]

The Austrian Supreme Court (OGH) has rendered an important decision to solve conflicts between several forum selection agreements. Facts An Austrian company had sub-contracted a German company to perform construction works in Germany. The main agreement contained a clause giving jurisdiction for any dispute to a German court. However, in two additional agreements, jurisdiction was […]

The first book in the European Association of Private International Law series, published by Edward Elgar is out. Edited by Morten M. Fogt (Aarhus University), the volume builds on the presentations delivered at the EAPIL Founding Conference held in Aarhus in June 2022. The chapters discuss current and future challenges of private international law. While […]

The European Association of Private International Law is delighted to announce the establishment of its own book series with Edward Elgar. The European Association of Private International Law Series will publish the outcome of the association activities. These include the proceedings of its conferences, but also papers based on the lectures given at the EAPIL […]

On 16 January 2025 the European e-Justice Strategy 2024–2028 has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It provides a framework designed to enhance the digitalization of justice systems across the EU and is a continuation of the Union’s ongoing efforts to modernize judicial systems. Context The Strategy builds on several EU […]