EAPIL Blog
- Book Launch Conference on the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law will host a hybrid conference on the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements on 11 December 2025 in The Hague. The (…)
18 novembre 2025
- New French Manual on International Commercial Law
Jean-Baptiste Racine (University Paris II Panthéon Sorbonne), Fabrice Siiriainen (University of Nice) and Séverine Menétrey (Free University of Brussels) have published the fourth edition of a manual (…)
30 octobre 2025
- Revue Critique de Droit International Privé: Issue 3 of 2025
The third issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 was just published. It contains three articles dealing with conflict issues (and a fourth concerned with immigration law) an (…)
15 octobre 2025
- French Supreme Court Rules on Validity of Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses After Lastre
On 17 September 2025, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) delivered four judgments ruling on the validity of jurisdiction clauses, including in the Società It (…)
22 septembre 2025
- Mandatory Recognition Procedure for Arbitral Awards?
As alluded to by Erik Sinander in his post on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in C‑600/23, Royal Football Club Seraing SA v. FIFA, et al. (“RFC Seraing”), the Court not only confirmed th (…)
17 septembre 2025
- Revue Critique de Droit International Privé: Issue 2 of 2025
The second issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 was published over the summer. It contains four articles and numerous casenotes. The first article is authored by Delphine (…)
5 septembre 2025
- Retrospective Interviews of Leading French Academics: Pierre Mayer
Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading (…)
27 août 2025
- Retrospective Interviews of Leading French Academics: Paul Lagarde
Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading (…)
21 août 2025
- French Court Denies Enforcement for Lack of Service of Article 53 Brussels I bis Certificate
In a judgment of 28 January 2025, the Court of Appeal of Grenoble (France) ruled that a Luxembourg judgement could not be enforced in France in the absence of service of an Article 53 Brussels I bis c (…)
16 juillet 2025
- International Commercial Courts: Will Paris Eat London’s Lunch?
The establishment of an international chamber in the Paris Commercial Court aimed at competing with and divesting judicial business from the London Commercial Court. As the possibility that the United (…)
4 juillet 2025
- Perspectives Contentieuses Internationales: Issue 2 of 2025
The latest issue of the new French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can (…)
4 juillet 2025
- Towards an EU Law on International Commercial Arbitration?
A working group composed of French scholars chaired by Professors Mathias Audit and Sylvain Bollée (both Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University) has issued a report on the opportunity of the EU lawmaker (…)
30 juin 2025
- New French Book on the Circulation of Companies under EU Law
Mathieu Combert and Jérémy Heymann are the editors of a book on the Circulation of Companies under EU Law (La circulation des sociétés en droit de l’Union européenne). The purpose of the book is to ta (…)
29 mai 2025
- French Supreme Court Declines to Align French PIL with Granarolo
In a judgment of 12 March 2025, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) decided that it would not align characterisation for the purpose of its national rules of in (…)
5 mai 2025
- D’Avout on Searching for Worldwide Legal Coherence
The general course given by Louis d’Avout (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) in 2022 at the Hague Academy of International Law on Searching for Worldwide Legal Coherence (La cohérence mondiale du droit (…)
24 avril 2025