Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Patrick Wautelet is a professor of law at the University of Liège (Belgium).
Belgium has recently adopted a specific legislation granting immunity of enforcement to assets held by foreign central banks and international monetary institutions, such as the World Bank. The Act of 24 July 2008 provides that no attachment can be performed on assets, whatever [...]
Are French courts willing to review arbitral awards on the ground that arbitrators violated European antitrust laws? As a matter of principle, French courts are extremely reluctant to review arbitral awards on the merits. In theory, an exception remains when the award violates French international public policy, but actual instances where French courts have found [...]
Two new references for preliminary rulings on the Brussels I Regulation have been referred to the ECJ:
1. The Hof van Cassatie van België has referred the following question to the ECJ:
Is a creditor who pursues a claim in the name and for the account of his debtor a party within the meaning of Article 43(1) [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Chair for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) has created under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dieter Martiny a very useful website (in German/English) which contains links on comparative law, private international law, uniform law as well as European Union institutions, case law and Community legislation. [...]
The newly-published 14th book in the European Family Law Series from Intersentia is “Brussels II bis: Its Impact and Application in the Member States” by K. Boele-Woelki and C Gonzalez Beilfuss. Here’s the book blurb:
The Brussels II bis Regulation which contains uniform rules for jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and in [...]
In a judgment of 17 April 2007, the Court of first instance of Hasselt found that the exception of fraude à la loi did not apply to the following case: A man from India and a woman from The Netherlands married in Sweden. They had no connection to that country (no friends or family; never [...]
In Belgium a practice has developed whereby the Belgian embassies in foreign countries may attach a ‘warning’ when legalising a document. The most frequent example is for repudiation. The warning note will then indicate to the future receiver of the document that according to the embassy, the document concerns the unilateral dissolution of a divorce. [...]
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The last issue of the French Journal du Droit International was released a few weeks ago. It contains two articles, written in French, which deal with conflict issues.
The first is authored by Belgian Professor Nicolas Angelet and Belgian Attorney Alexandra Weerts. Its title is “Les immunités des organisations internationales face à l’article 6 de la [...]
The symposium is organized by the Unité de droit international privé of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in the framework of the project on “Judicial Cooperation in Matters of Intellectual Property and Information Technology”, co-financed by the European Commission, and will take place in Brussels on Friday, March 2nd 2007.
It is a follow-up to [...]
On February 1st, 2007, the new website (in French) of the Unité de droit international privé (Centre de droit privé, Faculté de Droit) de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, directed by Prof. Nadine Watté, has been launched online.
The site provides a complete coverage of the different sectors of conflict of laws and jurisdictions, with useful references [...]
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Call for Papers DEADLINE NOTICE
for the Journal of Private International Law Conference 2007
to be held at the University of Birmingham on 26th -27th June 2007
The deadline for submission of an abstract of a proposed conference paper is 20th December 2006, at which time all submitted abstracts will be considered by [...]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
There is an article in the new issue of the European Review of Private Law on “The new rule on the assignment of rights in Rome I - the solution to all ourproprietary problems? Determination of the conflict of laws rule in respect of the proprietary aspects of assignment” by Lilian Stephens (E.R.P.L. 2006, 14(4), [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
We are pleased to announce the
Journal of Private International Law Conference 2007
to be held at the University of Birmingham
on
26th -27th June 2007
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Call for Papers
The editors, Professor Jonathan Harris (University of Birmingham) and Professor Paul Beaumont (University of Aberdeen), would be delighted to receive applications from scholars to present papers [...]
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The new issue of the Journal of Private International Law Volume 2, Number 1, will be published shortly. The contents are:
"Troublesome and Obscure": The Renewal of Renvoi in Australia by Reid Mortensen
The Public Policy and Mandatory Rules of Third Countries in International Contracts by Adeline Chong
Forum Non Conveniens Post-Owusu by Barry J. Rodger
European Choice of [...]
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