EAPIL Blog

• 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

• CJEU Rules on Competition over Assets between Insolvency Practitioners in Main and Secondary Insolvency Proceedings and Creditors
  On 18 April 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in Joint Cases C-765/22 and C-772/22, Air Berlin Luftverkehrs KG. The case was concerned with the insolvency of German airline Air Berlin. Parallel in (…)

  16 mai 2024

• CJEU Rules on Jurisdiction against Defendant Previously Domiciled in the EU
  On 11 April 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in case C-183/23, Credit Agricole Bank Polska. The case was concerned with a consumer who was previously domiciled in a Member State, but who had relo (…)

  22 avril 2024

• French Supreme Court Rules on Enforcement of Italian Decisions in Late Paternity Case
  This post was written by Mathilde Codazzi, who is a doctoral student at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. In a judgment of 13 December 2023, the French Cour de cassation ruled that Italian decis (…)

  26 mars 2024

• Rail Protocol Enters into Force
  The Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment entered into force on 8 March 2024. Resolving Conflit Mobile One of the main goals of the Cape Town Convent (…)

  19 mars 2024

• Inkreal: Bypassing National Rules Governing Jurisdiction Clauses?
  This is the second contribution to the EAPIL Online Symposium on Inkreal. The first contribution was written by Sergi Gimenez.  As reported earlier on this blog, the CJEU ruled in Inkreal s.r.o. v. Dú (…)

  26 février 2024

• New Edition of French Leading Treatise on Brussels I bis Regulation and Lugano Convention
  The seventh edition of the French leading treatise on the European law of jurisdiction and foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters (Compétence et exécution des jugements en Europe – Règlemen (…)

  15 février 2024

• Applicable Law to Time Limit to Enforce Foreign Judgments: the View of the French Supreme Court (Part II)
  In a previous post, I presented the traditional approach of the French Supreme Court in civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) on the applicable law to the time limit to enforce foreign judgme (…)

  17 janvier 2024

• Ukrainian Surrogate Mothers Giving Birth in France
  An unintended consequence of the war in Ukraine is that a number of Ukrainian surrogate mothers have travelled to other countries to give birth. The French press has reported that surrogate mothers wh (…)

  11 janvier 2024

• Conference on Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereigns
  The University of Luxembourg will host a conference on Enforcing Arbitral Awards against Sovereigns: Recent Trends and Practice on 10 January 2024. The conference is organised in partnership with Bonn (…)

  3 janvier 2024

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