Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The final program for the international conference titled ˝Regional Cooperation in the Field of Civil Proceedings with an International Element˝ was distributed this week. This is actually the sixth regional conference where academics and practitioners exchange their views and comments on different topics of conflict of laws and related areas. Commencing in 2002 in Niš [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
An interesting conference will be hosted in Toulouse, on 17 October 2008, by the Institut de Recherche en droit européen, international et comparé (IRDEIC) of the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse: “La matière civile et commerciale, socle d’un code européen de droit international privé?“ (The civil and commercial matters, core of a European Code [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The papers presented at the Duke University School of Law Symposium on ‘The New European Choice of Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States?‘ have now been published in the Tulane Law Review (Vol. 82, No. 5, May 2008). Here’s the table of contents:
Ralf Michaels, Introduction - The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution (available on SSRN);
Patrick [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Recently, the September/October issue of the German legal journal “Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts” (IPRax) was released.
It contains the following articles/case notes (including the reviewed decisions):
Rolf Wagner: “Der Grundsatz der Rechtswahl und das mangels Rechtswahl anwendbare Recht (Rom I-Verordnung) - Ein Bericht über die Entstehungsgeschichte und den Inhalt der Artikel 3 und 4 Rom [...]
Friday, September 5, 2008
The Heidelberg Centre for International Dispute Resolution at the Institute for Private International and Comparative Law will host a conference with the topic
“Arbitration and EC Law - Current Issues and Trends”.
The conference will focus on the relations between European civil procedure and arbitration which have been an intensely debated topic among legal scholars and [...]
The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements is the result of negotiations that began at The Hague Conference on Private International Law in 1992, when the United States asked for the Conference to develop a convention on jurisdiction and judgments. A more comprehensive convention, which spanned the field of civil jurisdiction, was produced in [...]
The Journal of Private International Law will hold its third major conference at New York University on April 17-18, 2009. As was the practice at the prior conferences at the University of Aberdeen in 2005 and at the University of Birmingham in 2007, we are including a “call for papers” to be presented at [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
From 25 August to 20 October 2008 this year’s Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs, organised by the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs and the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), will take place in Hamburg.
The lectures feature renowned scholars and practitioners and address current developments in the maritime [...]
The Academy of European Law (ERA), situated in Trier and with the financial support of the European Commission, organises conferences and summer schools on various topics of EU law. On 5-6 June a conference was held on recent developments in private international law and business law (covering civil jurisdiction, civil procedure, contract, delict, insolvency, and [...]
We are pleased to announce the:
Journal of Private International Law Conference
The Rome I Regulation: New Choice of Law Rules in Contract
Friday 19th September 2008
Herbert Smith, Exchange House, London
The full programme, also set out below, can be found on our dedicated conference page. The speakers are all internationally recognised experts in the fields of private [...]
On June 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin is hosting a conference on the Rome II regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations. Full details are available here.
The conference will examine the regulation and its implications for the practice of tort law. TCD has put together a team of speakers that includes leading experts from [...]
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 [...]
From 16th to 20th September 2008, the 13th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law will take place in Vienna. The topic of the conference is “Family Finances”.
A preliminary programme as well as further information on the venue, registration etc. can be found on the website of the University of Vienna.
(Many thanks to [...]
On Thursday 15 May 2008, at 17.00, the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC, Lausanne) will host a lecture (in French) by Prof. Fritz Sturm (University of Lausanne) on “Le nom en droit international privé” (”Name in Private International Law”).
The lecture is one of the monthly seminars on private international law and comparative law organized [...]
An interesting volume, collecting the contributions presented at the Seminario de Otoño de Derecho Internacional Privado (Fall Seminar on Private International Law), hosted in October 2007 by the University Carlos III of Madrid, has been recently published by Editorial Colex, under the editorship of Prof. Alfonso Luis Calvo-Caravaca and Prof. Esperanza Castellanos Ruiz: La Unión [...]
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 contributions presented at the 19th Journée de droit international privé, held in March 2007 at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC) and dedicated to the new Lugano Convention, have been published by Schulthess, under the editorship of Andrea Bonomi, Eleanor Cashin Ritaine and Gian Paolo Romano: La Convention de Lugano. Passé, présent et [...]
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.
