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		<title>The AG Opinion in West Tankers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin George</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Advocate General Kokott&#8217;s Opinion in Allianz SpA (formerly Riunione Adriatica Di Sicurta SpA) and Others v West Tankers Inc. is out, and the House of Lords (and most common law practitioners) are not going to find it a pleasurable read.
The question, you will remember, is whether anti-suit injunctions to give effect to arbitration agreements are [...]<br/>
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		<title>Conference: Arbitration and EC Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronika Gaertner</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Heidelberg Centre for International Dispute Resolution at the Institute for Private International and Comparative Law will host a conference with the topic
&#8220;Arbitration and EC Law - Current Issues and Trends&#8221;.

 The conference will focus on the relations between European civil procedure and arbitration which have been an intensely debated topic among legal scholars and [...]<br/>
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		<title>Third Issue of 2008’s Journal du Droit International</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilles Cuniberti</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The third issue of French Journal du Droit International (also known as Clunet) was just released. It contains two articles dealing with conflict issues.
In the first, Pierre Berlioz, who lectures at Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) University, seeks to define the notion of provision of services for the purpose of article 5-1 b) of the Brussels I [...]<br/>
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		<title>Immunity of Foreign Central Banks Assets in Belgium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Wautelet</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Reference on Art. 5 No. 1 (b) Brussels I: Distinction between sales of goods/provision of services and determination of place of performance regarding contract involving carriage of the goods</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronika Gaertner</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With a decision of 9th July 2008, the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has referred a reference to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Art. 5 No. 1 (b) Brussels I Regulation. 
The German-Italian case concerns contracts for the delivery of goods to be manufactured or produced which, however, showed certain [...]<br/>
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		<title>Colloquium on the Choice of Courts Convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin George</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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.&#160; A more comprehensive convention, which spanned the field of civil jurisdiction, was produced in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Submission of Abstracts for the 2009 NYU Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin George</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Weintraub on Rome II: Simple and Predictable, Consequences-Based, or Neither?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giorgio Buono</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Prof. Russell J Weintraub (University of Texas at Austin, School of Law) has published an interesting article on the Rome II Regulation in the latest issue of the Texas International Law Journal (Summer 2008): “The Choice-of-Law Rules of the European Community Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations: Simple and Predictable, Consequences-Based, or Neither?” [...]<br/>
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		<title>Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronika Gaertner</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From 25 August to 20 October 2008 this year&#8217;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 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Rome I Regulation Conference - Now CPD Accredited</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin George</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our conference on the Rome I Regulation: New Choice of Law Rules in Contract, to take place at Herbert Smith&#8217;s offices in London on 19th September 2008, is now accredited with CPD by both the Solicitors Regulation Authority (5.5 hours) and the Bar Standards Board (5 hours).
The full programme, as well as the details on [...]<br/>
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