EAPIL Blog
- 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
- French Supreme Court Rules on Jurisdiction in Financial Fraud Case
Mathilde Codazzi, who is a master student at the university Paris II Panthéon-Assas, contributed to this post. In a judgment of 15 June 2022, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (…)
12 juillet 2022
- London Steam-Ship Owners: Extending Lis Pendens to Arbitral Tribunals?
This is the second contribution to an online symposium on the ruling of the European Court of Justice, of 20 June 2022, in London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Assistance Association Ltd v Spain. The firs (…)
23 juin 2022
- Lundstedt on Gtflix TV v DR
Lydia Lundstedt (University of Stockholm) has posted Gtflix TV V Dr: ‘Same Ole Same Ole’ or Has the CJEU Broken New Ground? on SSRN. In Gtflix Tv v DR, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the (…)
20 juin 2022
- CJEU Rules on Burden to Bear Costs of Translation For Third Party Interveners
On 2 June 2022, the CJEU ruled in Case C-196/21 that courts are not ‘applicants’ in the meaning of Article 5(2) of the 2007 Service Regulation and should thus not bear the costs of translating documen (…)
9 juin 2022
- PhD Position in Private International Law in Angers
The University of Bretagne – Loire, France, is seeking to recruit a doctoral candidate to conduct research on ex officio application of private international law rules under the supervision of Prof. D (…)
8 juin 2022
- EAPIL Working Group on Reforming Brussels I bis
EAPIL has established a working group on Reforming Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis). In the light of the evaluation of the Brussels I bis Regulation which is currently being conducted by (…)
31 mai 2022
- Foreign Law under the French Draft PIL Code (updated)
This is the second of a series of posts on the French draft code of private international law of March 2022. The previous post in the series dealt with the issue of renvoi. The draft code of private i (…)
25 mai 2022
- French Conference on the Location of Damage in PIL
A conference on the location of damage in private international law will be held at Paris Cité University on 30 and 31 May 2022. The conference is convened by Olivera Boskovic and Caroline Kleiner. Sp (…)
13 mai 2022
- Renvoi under the French Draft PIL Code
This is the first in a series of posts on the French draft code of private international law of March 2022. The draft code of private international law contains one single provision on renvoi. The Pro (…)
11 mai 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.