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As announced on this blog, the Faculty of Laws of University College London will host the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Journal of Private International Law on 11, 12 and 13 September 2025. The call for paper issued for this purpose will end on 17 January 2025. Submissions should be sent by that date to […]

The University of Edinburgh is seeking a full-time permanent Lecturer in Global Law for its School of Law. Further details can be found here. As mentioned in the full job description, expertise in private international law will be appreciated. The closing date for applications is 20 January 2025.

This post has been written by Delphine Porcheron, Maître de conférences HDR, University of Strasbourg. On 14 November 2024, the Administrative Court of Paris dismissed a lawsuit filed by Rwandan citizens and associations seeking to hold the French State accountable for its role in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, a massacre that […]

On 1 January 2025, Poland assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union, marking the start of a new trio of presidencies that also involves Denmark and Cyprus. The Polish presidency’s programme for the semester ending on 30 June deals with a broad range of topics, including judicial cooperation in civil matters. In this […]

This post has been written by Artur Doržinkevič, a PhD candidate and a lecturer at Mykolas Romeris University. On 21 November 2024, the Lithuanian Court of Appeal issued a ruling in civil case No. e2-651-912/2024, which provided further clarification regarding anti-SLAPP procedures as they pertain to lawyers. Although the case concerned domestic anti-SLAPP procedure, the […]

Sandrine Clavel, Patrick Jacob and Fabienne Jault Seseke (all professors at the University of Versailles St Quentin) are the editors of a new French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI). The journal, which will be freely available, aims at covering both public and private law aspects of international dispute resolution. It […]

This post was written by Elena Alina Onţanu, Assistant Professor at the University of Tilburg, and Carlos Santaló Goris, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. The Bulgarfrukt judgment is the latest in a series of cases submitted by national judges to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in which the service […]

This post has been written by Bryan (H.B.) Verheul, PhD Candidate in Private International Law, Leiden University. He attended the Advanced Course in Hong Kong as a participant. Between 2 and 6 December 2024, the second edition of The Hague Academy of International Law’s Advanced Course on Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and […]

January 2025 starts at the CJEU with the delivery of AG J. Richard de la Tour’s Opinion in case C-536/23, Mutua Madrileña Automovilista. The Landgericht München I (Regional Court of Munich I, Germany) is referring the following question to the Court of Justice: Must Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 [the Brussels I bis […]

It’s been another busy year for the EAPIL blog. More than 300 new posts have been published over the past twelve months. Around 80 of them focused on cases brought before the Court of the Justice of the EU, the European Court of Human Rights and domestic judicial authorities. There were fewer posts on case […]

The first issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 will be published on 6 January 2025. The following advance abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. W. Hau, Third countries and the revision of the Brussels Ibis Regulation: jurisdiction, parallel proceedings, recognition and enforceability [German] The […]

The latest issue of the RabelsZ (Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht) has been published. Since the beginning of 2024, RabelsZ has been an open access publication, with all articles freely available to readers online. The fourth issue of 2024 closes off the year with a varied selection of essays on comparative and private […]

All best wishes to the members of the European Association of Private International Law, the readers of (and subscribers to) the EAPIL Blog, the guest bloggers and all those involved in the Association’s events. Relatively few posts will be published on the EAPIL blog in the coming days. We’ll resume our usual pace on 6 […]

Olivier Cachard (University of Nancy), Walid Ben Hamida (University of Lille) and Rémi Dalmau (University of Nancy) are the authors of the fourth edition of Cachard’s texbook on international commercial and investment law (Droit des affaires internationales – Commerce international et investissement). In line with the French tradition, the book was initially dedicated to commercial […]

The final version of the practical handbook on the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the international protection of adults, marking the end of a process led by the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH and a dedicated Working Group, which started in 2021. The Practical Handbook is intended to assist current and prospective Contracting […]

The latest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 73, Issue 4) features two short articles on private international law. Maria Hook, The Purpose of the Gateways for Service out of the Jurisdiction, pp 1023-1044 This article argues that the purpose of the English gateways for service out of the jurisdiction is to identify a […]

The latest issue of the Cambridge Law Journal (Volume 83, Issue 2) features one article on private international law. Ardavan Arzandeh, Interpreting Multiple Dispute-Resolution Clauses in Cross-Border Contracts, p. 244-273 Cross-border contracts often contain a clause which purports to reflect the parties’ intention regarding how disputes arising from their agreement should be resolved. Some such […]

The European Judicial Network (EJN) in civil and commercial matters, set up in 2001 on the model of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters, aims at strengthening cross-border cooperation between national courts of EU Member States, including legal practitioners. Therefore, it supports the effective implementation of private international law instruments in the EU jurisdiction. […]

The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a marriage celebrated by a couple from German territory over video in the US as being void in a decision dated 25 September 2024. Facts A Nigerian couple had given their vows during a videoconference before an official in Utah (USA), where the county government offers so-called ‘online marriage […]

Under Norwegian criminal law, entering into or assisting with a child marriage or a marriage-like relation is prohibited. A judgment of the Norwegian Supreme Court (HR-2024-2161-A of 25 October 2024) a man and his parents, all residing in Norway, were found guilty of this crime after the man had entered a marriage-like relation with a […]