EAPIL Blog

• New Book on the Requirement of Internationality in Private International Law
  Paola Nabet, who is a senior lecturer at the University of Metz/Lorraine, is the editor of a book on the requirement of internationality in private international law (L’internationalité du litige – de (…)

  6 décembre 2024

• French Supreme Court Rules Foreign Surrogacy Does not Violate Public Policy
  This post was written by Mathilde Codazzi, who is a doctoral student at Paris II Pantheon-Assas. On 14 November 2024, the French Cour de cassation issued a decision regarding the compliance of a forei (…)

  3 décembre 2024

• Journal du Droit International: Issue 4 of 2024
  The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2024 has been released. It contains four articles, two of which might be of interest for the purposes of private international law. It also c (…)

  11 novembre 2024

• Contributions to the Paris Conference Honouring Paul Lagarde
  On 26 and 27 September 2024, an international conference was held in Paris to honour the work, and celebrate the 90th birthday, of Paul Lagarde. The contributions of the speakers are available on the (…)

  30 octobre 2024

• New Monograph on Immunity from Enforcement of States and International Organizations
  Victor Grandaubert, who is a lecturer at Paris Nanterre University, has published L’immunité d’exécution de l’Etat étranger et des organisations internationales en droit international (The Immunity fr (…)

  23 octobre 2024

• New French Treatise on European Insolvency Law
  Adrien Tehrani, who is professor of private law at the University of Montpellier, has published Droit européen de l’insolvabilité (European insolvency law) with Bruylant. The book offers a comprehensi (…)

  16 octobre 2024

• French Supreme Court Rules Foreign Surrogacy Requires no Adaptation
  As reported earlier on this blog, the Cour de cassation ruled in a judgment of 2 October 2024 that a foreign surrogacy recognised in France produces the legal effects provided by foreign law and need (…)

  8 octobre 2024

• French Supreme Court Rules Lebanese Bank Directed its Activities to France
  In a judgment of 18 September 2024, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) dismissed a challenge to the jurisdiction of French courts over a Lebanese bank which wa (…)

  30 septembre 2024

• International Commercial Courts, State Model(s) of Specialised (Domestic) Courts?
  On 8 October 2024, Jeremy Heymann and Marylou Françoise will host a conference on International Commercial Courts, State Model(s) of Specialised (Domestic) Courts? at the University of Lyon 3. A first (…)

  19 septembre 2024

• CJEU Adds Requirements for Application of Overriding Mandatory Provisions
  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 p (…)

  5 septembre 2024

• French Supreme Court Retains Jurisdiction Over Paternity Claim against Alain Delon
  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 act (…)

  28 août 2024

• French Think Tank Issues Report on Law Applicable to Assets Registered in Distributed Ledgers
  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 di (…)

  1 août 2024

• Revue Critique de Droit International Privé – Issue 2 of 2024
  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 t (…)

  18 juillet 2024

• Last Paris Seminar on the Recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation
  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 d (…)

  5 juillet 2024

• French Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nationality Based Jurisdiction
  Articles 14 and 15 of the French Civil Code establish the jurisdiction of French courts where either the plaintiff or the defendant is a French national. The provisions date back to the original Napol (…)

  26 juin 2024

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