As part of the BIICL’s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private International Law the BIICL organizes on Monday 23 June 2008 17:30 to 19:30 (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP) a seminar titled “Group Actions, including Class Actions: Cross-border Aspects”. The BIICL website informs:
This seminar focuses [...]
As part of the BIICL’s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private International Law the BIICL organizes on Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:30 to 19:30 (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Council Chamber, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP) a seminar titled “Rome I Regulation: The UK Set to Opt-in”. The aim of [...]
As part of the BIICL’s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private International Law the BIICL organizes on Monday 16 June 2008 17:30 to 19:30 (at British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Council Chamber, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP) a seminar titled “Matrimonial Property Regimes in the Conflict of Laws: A European [...]
Centre du droit de l`enterprise at Université Robert Schuman (URS) organizes on 17 June 2008, at Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme-Alsace (MISHA) (5 allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg), a comparative law day with several private international law related topics on the agenda. The scope of the comparative law day is marked in its title: [...]
The ABA Section of International Law (ABA International) organizes its 2008 Fall Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, September 23-27 with several private international law related topics on the agenda. Read the letter of the Chair (Aaron Schildhaus) of the ABA Section of International Law (ABA International) here, and see the program agenda here.
The 73rd. Conference of the International Law Association, hosted by its Brazilian Branch, will take place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the InterContinental Hotel, August 17-21 2008. The central theme of the Conference will be “Law for the Future,” focusing on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Rights of the Human Person, Resolution [...]
As part of the BIICL’s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private International Law the BIICL organizes on Thursday 17 April 2008 17:30 to 19:30 (at British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP) a seminar titled “Financial Groups: A Fragmented EU Insolvency Regime”. The seminar will deal with [...]
Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell Law School) and Geoffrey P. Miller (New York University) have on the NELLCO Repository posted a working paper titled “The Flight to New York: An Empirical Study of Choice of Law and Choice of Forum Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts” (March 31, 2008, New York University Law and Economics Working Papers. Paper [...]
The Academy of European Law (ERA) organizes a number of private international law related conferences, seminars and courses during the spring and summer of 2008:
3rd European Forum for In-house Counsel, Brussels, 24-25 Apr 2008
Description from the ERA website: For the third consecutive year, ERA and ECLA are organising the European Forum for In-House Counsel, combining [...]
During the spring of 2008, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law will organize several events:
On 29 March 2008 the Max Planck Institute and the Claussen Simon Foundation will hold a colloquium on the Education of Jurists and Judges.
On 31 March 2008 Prof. Dr. Lu Song (Director, Institute of International Law, China [...]
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law organizes on 4 February 2008 (17:00) a guest lecture to be given by Professor Adrian Briggs (University of Oxford, UK).
Professor Briggs’ lecture is titled “Brussels Jurisdiction and Common Law Jurisdiction: understanding and misunderstanding what courts may be asked to do”.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) organizes on Monday 21 January 2007, 09.00 -18.00 (at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, London, WC2A 3TL) the 11th annual review of the Arbitration Act 1996 titled “Is English law really better?” The speakers will review the English Arbitration Act 1996. The 2007 [...]
The European Parliament released on 26 November 2007 its tabled legislative report, 1st reading or single reading (download the report from the OEIL page and see the status of the procedure). This report is expected to be debated or examined by the Council on 6 December 2007 after which a probable part-session is scheduled [...]
Friday, November 23, 2007
In an earlier post we reported on the seminar on Recognition of Foreign Insolvency Proceedings in the US to be held by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) on Monday 26 November 2007. Now the BIICL has made some of the seminar materials available online, with permission from the publication right [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
On 27 November 2007 the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will host, within their lecture series titled “The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs”, an evening lecture by Prof. Sergio Carbone (Professor, University of Genoa) titled “Liability from marine pollution [...]
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law holds on Monday 26 November 2007, 17:30 to 19:30 a seminar on Recognition of Foreign Insolvency Proceedings in the US. This seminar is part of the British Institute’s 2007-2008 Seminar Series on Private International Law. For further information, have a look at the Institute´s seminar website.
The Norwegian Court of Appeal (Borgarting lagmannsrett) recently handed down a decision on the question of recognition in Norway of a Swedish judgment, on a distress warrant against the defendant, in accordance with the Lugano Convention. The decision (Borgarting lagmannsrett (kjennelse)) is dated 2007-07-11, has case number LB-2007-71963, is published in LB-2007-71963, and is retrievable from [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The European Parliament issued 08/10/2007 its tabled non-legislative report on the Green Paper on improving the efficiency of the enforcement of judgments in the European Union: the attachment of bank accounts (2007/2026(INI)). The report can be read here and here. See our previous posts here, here and here.
The Norwegian Court of Appeal (Borgarting lagmannsrett) recently handed down a decision on the question of Choice of law regarding the limitation period for money claims. The decision (Borgarting lagmannsrett (kjennelse)) is dated 2007-05-28, published in LH-2007-75346, and is retrievable from here.
Parties, facts and contentions
The plaintiff and distrainer, Østjydske Bank AS, domiciled in Denmark, [...]
The Norwegian Court of Appeal (Haalogaland lagmannsrett) recently handed down a decision on the Lugano Convention Article 5 nr. 1 on the interpretation of the notions “contract”, “obligation” and “the place of performance” of the obligation. The decision (Haalogaland lagmannsrett (kjennelse)) is dated 2007-05-16, published in LH-2007-70583, and is retrievable from here.
Parties, facts and [...]
