EAPIL Blog

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
Van Hoek on Declaratory Judgements

Aukje A.H. Van Hoek (University of Amsterdam) has posted The Declaratory Judgment – Between Remedy and Procedural Technique on SSRN. The abstract reads: This contributions discussed a very technical i (…)

13 janvier 2023
French Supreme Court Rules on Wrongful Application of Brussels I Regulation to Enforcement of a Judgment

In a judgment of 7 September 2022, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) addressed several issues arising out of applications to declare enforceable judgments w (…)

5 janvier 2023
UK Supreme Court Rules on Law Applicable to Contribution Claims

On 2 November 2022, the UK Supreme Court delivered its judgment in The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help and another (Respondents) v Allgemeines Krankenhaus Viersen GmbH (…)

15 décembre 2022
Update on the 150 Anniversary of the ILA

As announced in an earlier post, the International Law Association will celebrate its 150 anniversary next year through a number of events. The celebration will start with an inaugural conference whic (…)

8 décembre 2022
HCCH Experts’ Group on Parentage/Surrogacy Issues Final Report

The Experts’ Group on the Parentage/Surrogacy Project of the Hage Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) has issued its Final Report on The feasibility of one or more private international law (…)

30 novembre 2022

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.