The Faculty of Law at Ozyegin University is organizing its first online Private International Law Symposium on the theme of “Current Issues in Private International Law – MENA & EU”.
The symposium aims to bring together MENA and EU scholars working in the field of private international law field. The symposium is to be held on 19 November 2021.
The organizers are pleased to invite interested persons to submit abstracts of papers relating to the themes of the symposium by 20 September 2021.
All necessary details about the event can be found here: https://events.ozyegin.edu.tr/tr?myozu=1#/0/detail/17152/current-issues-in-private-international-law-mena-eu-call-for-papers
Any inquiries should be directed to Mrs. Jocelyne Alayan at jocelyne.alayan@ozyegin.edu.trseminar_pil@ub.ac.id.
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is seeking at least three interns to work on the following Conventions and projects during the first half of 2022:
Applications will be accepted until 18:00 hours (CEST) on 24 September 2021.
See here for more details.
Par un arrêt du 15 juillet 2021, la Cour de justice s’arrête sur les conditions d’application de l’article 8 du règlement « Rome I » du 17 juin 2008, qui permet aux parties à un contrat de travail de choisir, dans certaines limites, la loi applicable à la relation de travail.
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On 14 October 2021 an online roundtable will take place devoted to the private international law issues relating to the recognition and enforcement of foreign (mostly US) punitive damages judgments in countries outside of Europe.
The event is organised by the Maastricht University at the initiative of Lotte Meurkens and Cedric Vanleenhove.
An often-heard obstacle [to the recognition of judgments awarding punitive damages] is the public policy-exception. In a number of European countries, for example Italy, Spain and Germany, the supreme courts have rendered decisions on this matter.
Following the decision of the Italian supreme court of 2017, a conference was organised in Milan by the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law of the University of Milan in 2018. A program of this conference, in which the organizers of this M-EPLI roundtable took part, can be found here. During the conference, the private international law question has been addressed from the perspective of several European countries.
We have decided to broaden this question and look into countries outside of Europe because extensive research into such jurisdictions has not been done yet. In this M-EPLI roundtable we bring together a group of experts who will reflect on the current position of their country (and surrounding countries). The insights gained through this research could be useful for the ongoing debate on the future of punitive damages in Europe.
Speakers include Cedric Vanleenhove (Ghent University / University of Liège), Béligh Elbalti (Osaka University), Wenliang Zhang (Renmin University of China), María Guadalupe Martínez Alles (IE University), Vsevolod Chernyy (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Lotte Meurkens (Maastricht University).
More information available here.
A short (and late – I am in mopping-up mood it seems) post on the AG’s Opinion in Case C‑124/20 Bank Melli Iran – in which he also cites my former colleague proximus Cédric Ryngaert. Hogan AG’s Opinion addresses the rock and the hard stone, or the devil and the deep blue sea dilemma facing corporations in the light of diverging export laws /sanctions law. May a German bank refuse to do business indeed end business with an Iranian bank, under pressure from US secondary export control laws?
More on the external relations aspects of the case is ia here and of course in the Opinion itself. My interest here lies in part of the Opinion: the AG’s view that an EU undertaking seeking to terminate an otherwise valid contract with an Iranian entity subject to the US sanctions must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the national court that it did not do so by reason of its desire to comply with those sanctions. It must show other motives, such as ethical reservations about doing business with Iran. These reservations may be documented by a genuinely rolled-out CSR compliance program: (88)
‘In order, however, to establish that the reasons given in respect of any decision to terminate a contract on this ground were in fact sincere, the person referred to in Article 11 of the EU blocking statute in question − in the present case Telekom Deutschland – would need, in my view, to demonstrate that it is actively engaged in a coherent and systematic corporate social-responsibility policy (CSR) which requires them, inter alia, to refuse to deal with any company having links with the Iranian regime.’
CSR programs have been used as carrot ia in Trafigura and as stick ia in Vedanta. The view here is very much the carrot or if one likes, the shield function: CSR policies as a defensive weapon against the rock and hard stone dilemma. That is most interesting for the EU corporations concerned and likely to draw the attention of export sanctions practitioners (both in-house and out) to part of the corporation’s blurb which they may otherwise ignore. Yet it may put too much emphasis on fairly unregulated CSR policy drafting, and compliance issues.
Geert.
The Scientific Committee of the European Association of Private International Law has approved the establishment of a Working Group on a future European Regulation on International Property Law.
AimsThe aims of the Working Group will be to exchange information on current legislation and case law in the field of international property law, with a focus on (but not limited to) the EU Member States and to draw up proposals for law reform and codification of international property law both on the level of the EU and on national/international levels.
CompositionThe Working Group is chaired by Eva-Maria Kieninger.
It is composed of the following members: Janeen Carruthers (University of Glasgow), Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxemburg), Morten Fogt (University of Aarhus), Teemu Juutilainen (University of Turku), Eva-Maria Kieninger (University of Wuerzburg), Teun Struycken (University of Utrecht), Jonathan Schenk (University of Antwerpen), Afonso Patrão (University of Coimbra), and Juliana Rodríguez Rodrigo (Madrid)
The Working Group is still considering applications for membership, especially from Eastern European Member States.
Consultative CommitteeThe Working Group will include a limited number of Members. Other Members interested in following its progress may join the Consultative Committee of the Working Group.
The Working Group wil report and seek comments from the Consultative Committee at least once a year.
Members intersted in joining the Consultative Committee may contact its chair, Gilles Cuniberti (gilles.cuniberti@uni.lu).
First MeetingThe Working Group will hold its first meeting in Wuerzburg in November 2021.
Further InformationFurther information on the project can be found on the Working Group’s webpage and sought from its chair, Eva-Maria Kienienger (kieninger@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de).
En dépit des mesures prises par le gouvernement pour améliorer la qualité de l’air dans plusieurs zones de France, celles-ci demeurent insuffisantes. En conséquence, l’État doit payer l’astreinte de 10 M€ pour le premier semestre 2021.
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