EAPIL blog

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 […]

This post was written by Fabienne Jault-Seseke, who is Professor of Private Law at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (Paris Saclay). On 12 June 2024, the French Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) confirmed in a ruling that the “primary” matrimonial property regime is defined by mandatory laws, which are applicable […]

The registrations for the Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2025 are open. The 2025 edition of the Centre will focus on Artificial Intelligence and International Law. The Directors of Research will be Marco Roscini (University of Westminster) for the English-speaking section, and Marion Ho-Dac (University of Artois) for the French-speaking session. The […]

The Channel is Really an Abyss When reading court judgments from the UK and the EU, one is often struck by the different attitudes on either side of the Channel. While courts on the continent try to get rid of cases as quickly as possible, their English counterparts seem to tell litigants ‘Bring them on!’. […]

Janeen M. Carruthers (University of Glasgow) and Bobby W.M. Lindsay (University of Glasgow) edited Research Handbook on International Family Law. Published by Edward Elgar in its Research Handbooks in Family Law series, the book addresses legal topics pertaining to family relationships in a cross-border context, and international family law disputes. It shows how this field […]

By Professor Jerca Kramberger-Škerl, University of Ljubljana. ‘Speaks 13 languages, can tell a joke in 7, can lecture in 8.’ This was the headline of a 2015 article in the Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik, marking the third appointment of Marko Ilešič as the Slovenian judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Indeed, being […]

On 27 June 2024, the English Court of Appeal delivered a judgment on the Rome II Regulation (which is assimilated EU law in the UK) in Nicholls v AXA Assistance Group Group T/A AXA Travel Insurance [2024] EWCA Civ 718 (LLJ Dingemans, Stuart-Smith and Coulson). The case concerned personal injuries in Spain, Spanish law was […]

On 5 July 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/1760 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 (Text with EEA relevance) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Pursuant to Article 38 of the Directive, it […]

The last seminar in the series organised by Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and hosted by the Cour de cassation on the recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation was held on 24 June 2024. The general topic of the seminar was recognition and enforcement of […]

This post was written by François Mailhé, who is Professor of Private Law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. The author thanks Justice Fulchiron for changing the Cour de cassation‘s practice and making his preliminary report available to the public on the Court’s website, thus providing a new source of information on the Court’s […]