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Anti-Arbitration Injunction in Foreign-Seated Arbitrations: The Delhi High Court’s Controversial Intervention in Engineering Projects (India) Limited v. MSA Global LLC (Oman)
This post is posted on behalf of Arnav Sharma, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, India
Introduction
On 25th July 2025, a single judge bench of the Delhi High Court delivered a judgment in Engineering Projects (India) Limited v. MSA Global LLC (Oman) in CS (OS) 243 of 2025[1] that has stirred considerable discourse in international arbitration circles. The fundamental question at issue in the instant case was whether an Indian Court can grant an anti-arbitration injunction to stay proceedings in a foreign-seated arbitration on grounds of the proceedings turning oppressive and vexatious due to procedural impropriety, notwithstanding internationally well-settled principles of minimal judicial intervention, party autonomy, and lex arbitri that govern international commercial arbitration? The Delhi High Court answered in the affirmative, holding that Indian civil courts possess inherent power under Section 9 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“CPC”) to intervene under exceptional circumstances where the arbitral process itself becomes a vehicle of abuse.
Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers: The Remaining Issues Following the Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision
Written by Dr Priskila Pratita Penasthika, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia
INTRODUCTION
The Indonesian Personal Data Protection Law, Law Number 27 of 2022 (Indonesian PDP Law), came into effect on 17 October 2022. Before its enactment, data protection rules in Indonesia were fragmented across different sector-specific laws and regulations. The Indonesian PDP Law aims to unify these laws and regulations, providing greater clarity and ensuring consistent personal data protection across all sectors in the country. The Indonesian PDP Law sets out normative provisions on personal data protection; however, detailed, practical rules have yet to be specified in the implementing regulations. As of now, the drafting of these implementing regulations is still underway. Read more
HUK-COBURG II: A Case on Mandatory Overriding Law or Jurisdiction?
By Ross Pey, Western University, Canada
1. Introduction
In Case C-86/23 E.N.I. and Y.K.I. v HUK-COBURG-Allgemeine Versicherung AG II (‘HUK-COBURG II’), the principal issue that arose was whether a Bulgarian compensation provision may be interpreted as having mandatory effect. In suggesting that it does not, the Court required the facts to have sufficiently close links with the forum. (Hereinafter the ‘sufficient connexion test’) Ostensibly, a freestanding sufficient connexion test could be viewed as a disguised jurisdictional control of the forum rather than part of a mandatory law analysis. In doing so, parallels to renvoi and forum non conveniens are drawn. Read more
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Seminar on International Insolvency and 2026 Seminar Series on the Reform of the Brussels I bis Regulation (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
The Área de Derecho Internacional Privado of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) announces two initiatives of particular interest for scholars and practitioners of private international law.
1. Seminar: Nuevas perspectivas de la insolvencia internacional: reestructuraciones preconcursales y concursales
On Friday, 6 March 2026 (12:45), a seminar will be held at the Faculty of Law of UAM (Seminario II) in the framework of the research project “Nuevas perspectivas de la insolvencia internacional: reestructuraciones preconcursales y concursales” (PID 2022-140017OB100), coordinated by Professors Iván Heredia Cervantes and Elisa Torralba Mendiola.
On this occasion, Prof. Ángel Espiniella Menéndez (Universidad de Oviedo) will deliver a lecture entitled:
“Práctica relativa a los procedimientos territoriales de insolvencia”
The seminar addresses the practice of territorial insolvency proceedings, a topic of particular relevance in the evolving landscape of European and international insolvency law.
Venue:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Facultad de Derecho – Seminario II
Date and time:
Friday, 6 March 2026 – 12:45
2. Seminario Julio D. González Campos 2026
Reform of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis)
Throughout 2026, the Área de Derecho Internacional Privado of UAM will host the Seminario Julio D. González Campos, dedicated to the reform of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 (Brussels I bis).
Both the above-mentioned insolvency seminar and the present seminar series will be held in Spanish. Only Sessions 2 and 3 of the present series will be conducted in English.
All sessions will take place at the Faculty of Law (Seminario V – J.D. González Campos, 4th floor), from 12:30 to 14:00.
The programme is as follows:
Session 1 – 13 March 2026
La revisión del ámbito de aplicación del RBIbis
Speaker: Rafael Arenas García (UAB)
Discussant: Miguel Virgós Soriano (UAM)
Session 2 – 24 April 2026 (in English)
The European Commission’s report on the application of the Brussels I bis Regulation
Speaker: Laura Liubertaite (European Commission)
Discussant: Elena Rodríguez Pineau (UAM)
Session 3 – 26 June 2026 (in English)
Issues relating to recognition and enforcement
Speaker: Costanza Honorati (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Discussant: Elisa Torralba Mendiola (UAM)
Session 4 – 18 September 2026
Acciones colectivas en el RBIbis
Speaker: Fernando Gascón Inchausti (UCM)
Discussant: Francisco Garcimartín (UAM)
Session 5 – 30 October 2026
Revisión de los foros de competencia judicial internacional ¿a la luz de la jurisprudencia del TJUE?
Speaker: Marta Requejo Isidro (Court of Justice of the European Union)
Discussant: Iván Heredia Cervantes (UAM)
Session 6 – 11 December 2026
Digitalización de la economía y revisión de las reglas de competencia judicial
Speaker: Pedro de Miguel Asensio (UCM)
Discussant: José Ignacio Paredes Pérez (UAM)
This seminar series offers a comprehensive and forward-looking discussion of the potential reform of Brussels I bis, addressing questions of scope, jurisdiction, collective litigation, recognition and enforcement, the case law of the CJEU, and the challenges posed by digitalisation.
FAMIMOVE is back! – FAMIMOVE 3.0 starts on 1 March 2026
FAMIMOVE 3.0 is an international project co-funded by the European Commission under the JUST-2025-JCOO program. The project’s full name is Families on the Move: The Coordination between international family law and migration law.
This project seeks to build on the results of FAMIMOVE 2.0 by focusing on children on the move in vulnerable situations and by consolidating the networks already established of experts in family law, child protection and migration law. It involves 7 universities in 6 EU Member States.
The duration of the project is two years from 1 March 2026 to 29 February 2028.
SLS Annual Conference 2026: Private International Law Section: Call for Papers
The following call was kindly shared with us by Michiel Poesen (University of Aberdeen).
This is a call for papers and panels for the Private International Law subject section at the SLS Annual Conference 2026. This year, the annual conference will take place at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The conference dates are: 2-4 September 2026. 
The Private International Law section will meet in the first half of the conference on 2-3 September, and we can run up to four sessions, each lasting 90 minutes.?Doctoral students are very welcome and are encouraged to submit papers for consideration in the Subject Sections Programme. The conference theme is Doing Law Differently, but the Private International Law Subject Section welcomes paper and panel proposals on any topics connected to our discipline.