EAPIL Blog
- HCCH Experts’ Group on Parentage/Surrogacy Issues Final Report
The Experts’ Group on the Parentage/Surrogacy Project of the Hage Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) has issued its Final Report on The feasibility of one or more private international law (…)
30 novembre 2022
- Anachronism as Legislative Art: on the Projected French Codification of National PIL (or What Is Left of It)
Dominique Bureau (University of Paris II Panthéon Assas) and Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law school) have published earlier this week in La Semaine Juridique (édition générale) a critique of the de (…)
22 novembre 2022
- Journal du Droit International: Issue 4 of 2022
The fourth issue of the Journal du droit international for 2022 has just been released. While it contains a number of case notes relating to private international law issues, it is mainly conceived as (…)
15 novembre 2022
- Zambrano, Mastrodimos and Valente on Full Faith and Credit and Abortion Laws
Diego Zambrano, Mariah Mastrodimos and Sergio Valente (Stanford Law School) have posted The Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Puzzle of Abortion Laws on SSRN. The abstract reads: Even before Dobbs (…)
28 octobre 2022
- Essays in International Litigation for Lord Collins
Jonathan Harris and Campbell McLachlan are the editors of Essays in International Litigation for Lord Collins (OUP, 2022). As its title makes clear, this is a collection of essays written to honour La (…)
24 octobre 2022
- De Lima Pinheiro on the Spatial Reach of Injunctions for Privacy and Personal Data Protection
Luís de Lima Pinheiro (University of Lisbon) has posted The Spatial Reach of Injunctions for Privacy and Personal Data Protection on the Internet Revisited on SSRN. The abstract reads: This study deal (…)
18 octobre 2022
- Estrella Faria on the Protection of Religious Cultural Property
José Angelo Estrella Faria (UNCITRAL) has published his Hague Lectures on the protection of religious cultural property in public international law and private international law (La protection des bie (…)
5 octobre 2022
- Dane on Party Autonomy and the Challenge of Choice of Law
Perry Dane (Rutgers) law schools has posted Party Autonomy and the Challenge of Choice of Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: A perennial question in choice of law is whether parties to a contract can se (…)
29 septembre 2022
- French Supreme Court Confirms Disproportionate Awards Violate French Public Policy
In a judgment of 12 January 2022, the French Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled again that foreign judgments ordering the payment of disproportionate financial awar (…)
28 septembre 2022
- Guillaume and Riva on Blockchain Dispute Resolution for DAOs
Florence Guillaume and Swen Riva (University of Neuchatel) have posted Blockchain Dispute Resolution for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: The Rise of Decentralized Autonomous Justice on SSRN. F (…)
13 septembre 2022
- Journal du droit international: Issue 3 of 2022
The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2022 was released in July. It contains two articles and several case notes relating to private international law issues. In the first article, (…)
7 septembre 2022
- EU and Ukraine Join Hague Judgments Convention
The European Commission has announced that the European Union and Ukraine both joined the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention today. More specifically, the EU has acceded and Ukraine has ratified the Conv (…)
29 août 2022
- French Conference on Ascertainment of Foreign Law
On 13 September 2022, the French Société de législation comparée will hold a conference on ascertainment of foreign law under the French Draft Code of Private International Law. The full programme of (…)
3 août 2022
- Internships at the HCCH Permanent Bureau
The Permanent Bureau is looking for one intern for the period September to December 2022 or September 2022 to February 2023 to work on the 1993 Adoption Convention and the Parentage / Surrogacy Projec (…)
22 juillet 2022
- CJEU Rules that Service Regulation Postpones National Time Limits
This is the most important take of the judgment delivered on 7 July 2022 in LKW WALTER Internationale Transportorganisation AG (Case C-7/21) (see already the report of K. Pacula here). Under Article 1 (…)
18 juillet 2022
NEWS
It was great to give the keynote speech in the event organised by the Club Español del Arbitraje and Woman Way in Arbitration – WWA LATAM on Arbitration as Default Jurisdiction on May 26th, 2022.
I enjoyed giving two seminars on cross border family dispute resolution in the Multilevel, Multiparty and Multisector Cross-Border Litigation in Europe Module convened by Albert Henke in Milan. The first seminar was held on May 4th, 2022 and focused on abolition on exequatur under the Brussels II ter Regulation. The second was held on May 5th and focused on parallel litigation under the Brussels II ter Regulation.
I was delighted to speak in the Judgtrust conference organised by the Asser Institute on April 21st, 2022 on Revised rules on recognition and enforcement: abolishing exequatur and provisional measures enforceable under the Brussels Ia Regulation.
The first meeting of the EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law took place in Würzburg on Nov. 15-17, 2021. The Working Group aims at proposing a regulation on choice of law on property matters. The Working Group will hold its next meeting online in February 2022.
The Study on the Rome II Regulation (EC) 864/2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law conducts a legal analysis and assessment of the practical experiences and problems of interpretation in the application of the Rome II Regulation for the period 2010-2020.
I was delighted to contribute as the reporter for Luxembourg.
The EFFORTS Project held a France and Luxembourg National Exchange Seminar on September 24th, 2021. I was delighted to participate in the last round table on Cross-Cutting Issues Relevant to Cross-Border Enforcement of Claims Within the EU.
Parution de l’ouvrage L’ordonnance européenne de saisie conservatoire des comptes bancaires, en collaboration avec le prof. Sara Migliorini. L’ouvrage étudie la mise en œuvre du Règlement 655/2014 en Belgique, Luxembourg et France.
Parution de la 4ème édition du Code de droit international privé luxembourgeois (avec l’assistance de Mlle Mathilde Codazzi). Contrairement aux éditions précédentes, le Code inclut désormais de nombreuses annotations jurisprudentielles.