EAPIL Blog

• New Phishing Emails sent on behalf of EAPIL
  Many thanks to the members who have informed me of the relatively sophisticated phishing email that they received today in my name, asking for assistance. As always, the email address was suspicious. (…)

  14 janvier 2025

• New French Journal on International Dispute Resolution
  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 resoluti (…)

  8 janvier 2025

• New French Book on International Commercial and Investment Law
  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 commerci (…)

  23 décembre 2024

• 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

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