EAPIL Blog

Flatow v. Iran – French Supreme Court Rules on Sovereign Immunity in Exequatur Proceedings

In a judgment of 28 June 2023, the French Supreme Court for Private and Criminal Matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that foreign states may rely on their immunity from suit in exequatur proceedings. As (…)

21 septembre 2023
CJEU Rules Quasi Antisuit Injunctions Violate Mutual Trust

On 7 September 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in Case C-590/21, Charles Taylor Adjusting that judgements ordering a party to pay certain sums of money for violating a choice of (…)

8 septembre 2023
Muir Watt on Alterity in the Conflict of Laws

Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po Law School) has published the lecture that she gave as the 18th Rabel Lecture in November 2022 on Alterity in the Conflict of Laws – An Onthology of the In-Between. The (…)

29 août 2023
Video of French Conference on State Immunity from Enforcement

On 13 April 2023, the University Paris Dauphine hosted a conference on State Immunity from Enforcement (L’immunité d’exécution de l’Etat). Speakers included Philippe Théry (Univ. Paris Panthéon-Assas) (…)

22 août 2023
Singer on Conflict of Abortion Laws (in the U.S.)

Joseph Singer (Harvard Law School) has posted Conflict of Abortion Laws on SSRN. The abstract reads: When a resident of an anti-abortion state goes to a prochoice state to get an abortion, which law a (…)

15 août 2023
Assistant Professorship in European PIL in Groningen

The Department of Private International Law at the University of Groningen is looking for an assistant professor in the field of European private international law to strengthen education and research (…)

10 août 2023
Collins on the Law Governing Confidentiality in Arbitration

Lawrence Collins (UCL, former Justice of the UK Supreme Court) has posted Reflections on the Law Governing Confidentiality in Arbitration on SSRN. The abstract reads: The paper considers the law gover (…)

8 août 2023
CJEU Rules Court of Place of Wrongful Removal can be Better Placed Court under Brussels II bis

On 13 July 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in case C-87/22 that the court of a Member State where children were wrongfully removed by one of their parent can be requested to ass (…)

18 juillet 2023
New Phishing E-Mails Sent on Behalf of EAPIL

Some EAPIL members are reporting they receive e-mails allegedly sent on my behalf requesting help for the Association. These e-mails were not sent either by me or any EAPIL official. Please ignore the (…)

13 juillet 2023
Revue Critique de Droit International Privé – Issue 2 of 2023

The second issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé of 2023 contains three articles on private international law and numerous casenotes. In the first article, Sandrine Brachotte (St Lo (…)

7 juillet 2023
French Supreme Court Denies Enforcement to Judgment on Ground of Evasion of an Arbitral Award

In a judgment of 17 May 2023 (Albaniabeg Ambient sh.p.k v. v. Enel Spa), the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) denied enforcement in France to an Albanian judgm (…)

21 juin 2023
French Committee Issues Report on Paris International Commercial Courts

The Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris issued a report on the work of the international commercial chambers of Paris courts (Bilan du fonctionnement des chambres internationales du tr (…)

6 juin 2023
CJEU Rules on Scopes of Lex Loci Delicti and Lex Subrogationis

On 17 May 2023, the CJEU delivered its judgment in Fonds de Garantie des Victimes des Actes de Terrorisme et d’Autres Infractions (FGTI) v. Victoria Seguros SA (Case C‑264/22). This is a case on the d (…)

30 mai 2023
Dagan and Peari on Choice of Law and Private Law Theory

Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv University) and Sagi Peari (University of Western Australia) have posted on Choice of Law Meets Private Law Theory on SSRN. Choice of law can, and often should, be an important (…)

25 mai 2023
Michaels on PIL and the Legal Pluriverse

Ralf Michaels (Max Planck Institute Hamburg) has posted Private International Law and the Legal Pluriverse on SSRN. The abstract reads: Private international law responds to the plurality of existing (…)

17 mai 2023

NEWS

It was great to participate in the Conference on « The European Account Preservation Order – Six Years On » at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan on 3 March 2023. I spoke on whether the EAPO should be revised, and how.

It was a pleasure to participate in the conference held in Metz on December 1st, 2022, on the requirement of internationality to trigger the application of private international law rules (L’internationalité du litige) and to present on the application of the requirement in contractual matters.

The EAPIL Working Group on International Property Law held its second meeting in Luxembourg on 6-8 October 2022.

I was delighted to participate in the conference organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Strasbourg on Article 145 of the French Code of Civil Procedure on September 30th, 2022, and discuss the European regime of the protective measures related to the collection of evidence.

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg hosted a conference on September 9th, 2022, to discuss some of preliminary findings of the EAPIL Working Group on the Reform of the Brussels Ibis Regulation. The programme of the conference can be found here. A report on the conference is available here.

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 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.