The first issue of 2008’s Revue Critique de Droit International Privé has just been released. It contains three articles, but only one dealing with a conflict issue per se, the public law exception within the Brussels I Regulation after the Lechouritou case (”Les actes jure imperii et le Règlement Bruxelles I - A propos de [...]
The Yearbook of Private International Law for 2007 will soon be out. Its main focus is on the Rome II Regulation, with the following articles:
Gerhard Hohloch:
Place of Injury, Habitual Residence, Closer Connections and Substantive Scope – the Basic Principles
Th.M. De Boer:
Party Autonomy and its Limitations in the Rome II Regulation
Peter Huber / Martin Illmer:
International Product [...]
The second issue of French Journal du Droit International (also known as Clunet) will be released shortly. It does not contain articles which directly deal with conflict issues. Yet, three of them might be of interest for readers of this blog.
This first is authored by Tunisian professor Lofti Chedly and discusses 14 years of application [...]
The first issue of French Journal du Droit International (also known as Clunet) will be released shortly. It contains four articles dealing with conflict issues.
The first is authored by Pascal de Vareilles-Sommieres, who teaches at Paris I University, and Anwar Fekini, who is a practising lawyer in Paris and Tripoli. It discusses The New International [...]
The last issue of Revue Critique de Droit International Privé for 2007 was just released. It contains two articles dealing with conflict issues.
The first is authored by Fabien Marchadier who lectures at the Law Faculty of Limoges University. It discusses the Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to the Efficacy of the Hague [...]
Friday, December 21, 2007
There is a substantial book review in the new issue of the Standard Law Review (Oct 2007, Vol. 60, Issue 1): What Do We Really Know About the American Choice-of-Law Revolution? by Hillel Y. Levin (Stanford). It provides a detailed critique of Symeon Symeonides’ most recent book, The American Choice-of-Law Revolution: Past, Present and [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The fourth issue of the French Journal du Droit International (Clunet) has been released. It contains three articles dealing with private international law issues (the table of contents in French can be found here).
First, the Journal offers the end of the article of Ms Legros (the first part of which was published in the third [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The latest issue of the French Revue Critique de Droit International Privé has been released. In addition to 9 comments of French and European cases, it contains two articles. The table of contents can be found here.
The first article is authored by Dr. A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, who teaches in Lausanne, Marseille and Palermo. It deals [...]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The last issue of the Journal du Droit International contains three articles dealing with conflict issues. They are all written in French.
The first is authored by Cecile Legros, who lectures at the Faculty of Law of Rouen. It deals with Conflicts of Norms in the Field of International Contracts for Carriage of Goods (”Les conflits [...]
A very interesting collection of papers held at a symposium in Bayreuth in September 2006 on the Proposal for a Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations (”Rome I“) has recently been published: Ferrari/Leible (eds.), Ein neues Internationales Vertragsrecht für Europa
An English abstract has been kindly provided by the editors:
There is still insecurity for [...]
There is a veritable feast of articles, casenotes and book reviews in the latest issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly. They are:
“Piercing the corporate veil: searching for appropriate choice of law rules” by Chee Ho Tham (L.M.C.L.Q. 2007, 1(Feb), 22-43)
Analyses case law on whether the English courts will exceptionally disregard the separate [...]
Monday, February 26, 2007
Book review of Peter Stone, EU Private International Law Harmonisation of Laws [Elgar European Law, Cheltenham, 2006, lvi+462pp, ISBN 1-84542-015-2]. (Reviewed by Dr Lorna Gillies, Leicester)
This book is part of a series collection on European Law by Edward Elgar Publishing. According to the blurb, the book offers a “critical assessment of four [...]
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The last issue of one of the two French leading journals of international private law, the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2006), was released last week. In addition to several case commentaries, it contains three articles. Unfortunately and contrary to previous practices, the Revue does not provide any abstract for any of them, even in French.
The [...]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
A new German doctoral dissertation on European company law has been published. The thesis of Wolf-Georg Ringe (Hamburg), Die Sitzverlegung der Europäischen Aktiengesellschaft deals with the transfer of seat of the European Company which is also known as "Societas Europaea" (SE). Transfer of seat has a significant impact on companies - in particular for economic [...]
Sunday, September 17, 2006
The aim of the Butterworths International Commercial Litigation Handbook is to be a repository of "United Kingdom primary and secondary legislation, with key European Community and international materials" relating to international commercial disputes before the courts in England, Wales and Scotland. Publication details and a table of contents can be found in the earlier [...]
