EAPIL Blog

• French Supreme Court Rules Rome I Forbids Application of Religious Law
  In a judgment of 11 February 2026, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that Article 3(3) of the Rome 1 Regulation forbids courts to apply non state law. (…)

  22 avril 2026

• Journal du droit international: Issue 2 of 2026
  The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2026 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. The article is authored (…)

  21 avril 2026

• EAPIL Issues Position Paper on HCCH Jurisdiction Project
  The EAPIL Working Group on Parallel Proceedings has issued a position paper to answer the public consultation of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the HCCH Draft text of a future co (…)

  12 mars 2026

• Combination Rather than Dichotomy: A New Framework for Understanding Party Autonomy in Contracts
  Philippine Blajan, who is a professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin, has published La combinaison des autonomies en droit international privé des contrats. Étude des interactions entre (…)

  26 février 2026

• Russia Challenges Arbitrator for EAPIL Blog Comment
  On 15 January 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled on an application to set aside an arbitral award on the ground of the alleged partiality of two of the members of the arbitral tribunal. Background (…)

  9 février 2026

• Yearbook of the Ravenna Summer School 2024
  Michele Angelo Lupoi and Davide Castagno (both university of Bologna) have posted The Yearbook of the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-Border Litigation and International Arbitration 2024 Edition on SSR (…)

  30 janvier 2026

• Revue Critique de Droit International Privé: Issue 4 of 2025
  The fourth issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 was just published. It contains four articles dealing with conflict issues and a number of casenotes. In the first article, (…)

  19 janvier 2026

• EU Commission’s Call for Applications to an Expert Group on the Brussels I bis Regulation
  The European Commission has established the Brussels Ia sub-group and launched a Call for Applications to select members of this group, which will support the revision of the cornerstone instrument of (…)

  8 janvier 2026

• A Different Reading of Apple Nederland Store
  On 2 December 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union rendered its judgment in case C-34/24, Apple Store Nederland. The case was already commented on this blog by Jorg Sladic this morning as (…)

  18 décembre 2025

• EAPIL to Establish a Working Group on the HCCH Jurisdiction Project
  The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members to participate in a Working Group on the Jurisdiction Project of the Hague Conference on Privat (…)

  15 décembre 2025

• McLachlan on the Interface Between Public and Private International Law
  The general course of international law that Professor Campbell McLachlan (University of Cambridge) gave at the Hague Academy of International Law On the Interface Between Public and Private Internati (…)

  4 décembre 2025

• 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

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