EAPIL Blog

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
EAPIL Does Not Need Help, Thanks

Several EAPIL members have received over the last few days the same e-mail, allegedly sent by the President, asking them to help the association. Unsurprisingly, those who answered the e-mail have rec (…)

10 mai 2023
Revue Critique de Droit International Privé – Issue 1 of 2023

The first issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé of 2023 is primarily dedicated to the Restatement Third of Conflict of Laws. Restatement Third Lea Brilmayer (Yale) starts the discus (…)

28 avril 2023
French Conference Proceedings and Video on Ex Officio Application of Choice of Law Rules

Judge François Ancel (Cour de cassation) and Professor Gustavo Cerqueira (University of Nice) are the editors of a book on the Respective Roles of (French) Courts and Parties in the Application of Cho (…)

20 avril 2023
French Debates on Desirability of National Code of PIL

The desirability of adopting a French code of private international law in a field dominated by EU law is hotly debated in France. In October 2022, the French Committee of Private International Law ho (…)

31 mars 2023
European Parliament Study on Efficient Cooperation with the UK

Lotario Benedetto Dittrich (University of Trieste) has written a Study at the request of the JURI committee of the European Parliament on Ensuring Efficient Cooperation with the UK in civil law matter (…)

24 mars 2023
Paris Conference on State Immunity from Enforcement

On 13 April 2023, the University Paris Dauphine will host a conference on State Immunity from Enforcement (L’immunité d’exécution de l’Etat). The conference will be divided in four parts. The first wi (…)

28 février 2023
French Supreme Court Rules Certificate Provided for in Article 53 Brussels I bis May Be Served 5 Minutes before Enforcement

In a judgment of 11 January 2023, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that enforcement measures can be validly carried out 5 minutes after the certifica (…)

21 février 2023
EAPIL Working Group on Brussels I bis Regulation Reform: Preliminary Report and Survey

The EAPIL Working Group on the Reform of the Brussels I bis Regulation has issued a preliminary position paper formulating proposals for reforming the Regulation. The proposals are based on the opinio (…)

13 février 2023
EAPIL Working Group on the Law Applicable to Digital Assets

Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna) and Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg) are considering establishing an EAPIL Working Group on the Law Governing Digital Assets. The first project of th (…)

9 février 2023
French Supreme Court Rules on Scope of Exclusive Jurisdiction over Company Registry

In a judgment of 11 January 2023, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the place where a public registry (…)

2 février 2023
EU Commission Launches Infringement Procedure against Poland for Violation of Brussels IIa Regulation

The European Commission has announced earlier today that it has sent a letter of formal notice to Poland (INFR(2021)2001) for failure to fulfil its obligations under the Brussels IIa Regulation. The i (…)

26 janvier 2023
Paris Court of Appeal Rules on Law governing Misappropriation of Funds

Mathilde Codazzi, who is a master student at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, contributed to this post. In a judgment of 8 November 2022, the international commercial chamber at the Paris Court (…)

24 janvier 2023
CJEU Rules Search Powers Exclude the Application of the Brussels I bis Regulation

On 22 December 2022, the CJEU ruled on the concept of civil and commercial matters in Eurelec Trading & Scabel v. (French) Ministre de l’Economie et des Finances (case C‑98/22). The case, which is not (…)

16 janvier 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.