EAPIL Blog

• Baumgartner and Whytock on Enforcement of Judgments, Systematic Calibration, and the Global Law Market
  Samuel P. Baumgartner (University of Zürich) and Christopher A. Whytock (University of Irvine) have posted Enforcement of Judgments, Systematic Calibration, and the Global Law Market on SSRN. The abst (…)

  25 janvier 2022

• On-line Symposium on Hrvatske Sume
  On 9 December 2021, the CJEU ruled in HRVATSKE ŠUME d.o.o., Zagreb v. BP EUROPA SE (Case C-242/20) that the distinction between contracts and torts under Article 7 of the Brussels I bis Regulation is (…)

  9 janvier 2022

• New Edition of Muir Watt and Bureau on Private International Law
  The fifth edition of the treatise of Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School) and Dominique Bureau (Paris II University) on French private international law has recently been published. The treatise (…)

  5 janvier 2022

• UK Supreme Court Settles Dispute over Venezuelan Reserves
  On 20 December 2021, the Supreme Court of the UK delivered its judgment in Maduro Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela v Guaidó Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela ([2021] UKSC 57). The case was (…)

  29 décembre 2021

• CJEU Rules Claims for Unjust Enrichment need not be Contractual or Delictual for Jurisdictional Purposes
  On 9 December 2021, the CJEU delivered its judgment in HRVATSKE ŠUME d.o.o., Zagreb v. BP EUROPA SE (Case C-242/20). The main issue before the Court was whether a claim for unjust enrichment fell nece (…)

  9 décembre 2021

• Which Law Applies to Torts Committed under the Channel?
  Which law applies to a tort committed in the Channel Tunnel, at 16 km from the exit on French territory? This is the question that the Court of Appeal of Douai could have asked, but did not, in a rece (…)

  7 décembre 2021

• French Textbooks on Private International Law
  Two texbooks on French private international law were recently published in a new edition. Prof. Bernard Haftel (University Sorbonne Paris Nord) is the author of a short text (375 p.) presenting conci (…)

  3 décembre 2021

• Listwa and Brilmayer on the Situs Rule in US Choice of Law Theory
  Daniel B. Listwa (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and Lea Brilmayer (Yale Law School) have posted Jurisdictional Problems, Comity Solutions: Lessons for the Restatement (Third) on SSRN: American choic (…)

  26 novembre 2021

• d’Avout on the Resurgence of the 1934 Franco-British Convention on Foreign Judgments
  Louis d’Avout (University Paris II Panthéon-Assas) has posted a short paper in French on the Resurgence of the 1934 Franco-British Convention on the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (La résurgence de (…)

  24 novembre 2021

• EU Parliament Briefing on the UK’s possible re-joining of the Lugano Convention
  The European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament has issued on November 18th, 2021, a Briefing on The United Kingdom’s possible re-joining of the 2007 Lugano Convention. The summ (…)

  19 novembre 2021

• CJEU Rules Sanctions Prevent Preventive Attachment of Funds
  On 11 November 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Bank Sepah v. Overseas Financial Limited (case C‑340/20). The judgment clarifies the effect of the freezing of (…)

  15 novembre 2021

• UK Supreme Court rules on Law Governing Arbitration Agreement at Enforcement Stage
  On 27 October 2021, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its ruling in Kabab-Ji SAL (Lebanon) (Appellant) v Kout Food Group (Kuwait) (Respondent) ([2021] UKSC 48). At issue was again the (…)

  28 octobre 2021

• Spanish Book on the Matrimonial Property Regimes Regulation
  Pilar Jimenez Blanco (University of Oviedo) has published a monograph on cross border matrimonial property regimes (Regímenes Económicos Matrimoniales Transfronterizos). The book is an in-depth study (…)

  22 octobre 2021

• UK Supreme Court Affirms Jurisdiction Based on Indirect Damage
  On 20 October 2021, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its judgment in FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC (Appellant) v Brownlie (as Dependant and Executrix of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC) (…)

  20 octobre 2021

• ECtHR Affirms Holy See’s Jurisdictional Immunity in Sexual Abuse Case
  On 12 October 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in J.C. and Others v. Belgium (only available in French, so far). The case has been widely reported in the general (…)

  18 octobre 2021

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