EAPIL blog

On 5 September 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in HUK-COBURG-Allgemeine Versicherung II (Case C-86/23) and established a number of requirements limiting the application of overriding mandatory provisions under Article 16 of the Rome II Regulation. The judgment makes it clear that the Court considers that these new requirements are equally applicable in the context of […]

Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford and Notre Dame Law School) has published recently his article German Law’s Dilemma with Punitive Damages: German Federal Court of Justice, Judgment of 4 June 1992, Case IX ZR 149/91 (BGHZ 118, 312) on SSRN. The article is included also in the volume edited by James Goudkamp and Eleni Katsampouka titled […]

The central theme of the latest issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé (announced on this blog here) is migration. While most of the articles focus on the new French statute to control immigration and improve integration, Hans van Loon takes a broader perspective and argues in the opening article (La nécessité d’un cadre […]

The 115th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars will take place at the University of Bristol between 3 and 5 September 2024. The conference will focus on the theme Learning from Others: Lessons for Legal Scholars? The Conflict of Laws section, coordinated and moderated by Michiel Poesen (University of Aberdeen) and Patricia Zivkovic (University of […]

Back to normal activity as of 3 September, here is the planning in relation to cases on private international issues for this month. Advocate General N. Emiliou’s second opinion in case C-339/22, BSH Hausgeräte, expected in July (see here), was re-scheduled and should be delivered on Thursday 5. On the same day, Advocate General J. Richard […]

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 […]