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Jean-Baptiste Racine (University Paris II Panthéon Sorbonne), Fabrice Siiriainen (University of Nice) and Séverine Menétrey (Free University of Brussels) have published the fourth edition of a manual of French international commercial law (Droit du commercial international). The book surveys all aspects of international commercial law: private international law of corporations, of contracts, and of guarantees. […]

As announced earlier on this blog, applications are open to join the Lindemann Fellowship, a programme established in 2024 to support promising academics in the field of private international law. Fellows are accepted for a three-year period, with new Fellows joining each year.  The core of the Fellowship is an annual fully funded meeting of […]

On 19 November 2025, from 2 to 3 pm UK time, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will host a webinar featuring Kirsten Henckel (University of Groningen) on The Digital Afterlife: Digital succession and private international law. The webinar will explore how digitalisation has transformed property and inheritance, raising new challenges […]

The Greek publisher Nomiki Bibliothiki has published a book by Haris Meidanis, in English, titled The Private International Law of Commercial Mediation. In a commercial contract that contains a mediation clause, a dispute arises. Mediation starts and the related questions begin: Must the parties sign an agreement with the mediator and under which law? Should […]

A call for chapters has been issued for the upcoming edited volume Digitalisation of Justice: Perspectives from Germany and the Netherlands, to be published by Springer Nature under the editorship of Benedikt Schmitz (University of Groningen). The volume explores how digitalisation affects courts and dispute resolution, seeking to balance efficiency and fairness, from remote hearings […]

On 21 October 2025, the European Commission adopted its 2026 work programme, titled Europe’s Independence Moment. It outlines how the EU plans to respond to current and emerging challenges, from security threats and geopolitical tensions to economic vulnerabilities and the accelerating climate crisis, building on the priorities set out in President von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines 2024-2029 […]

This post was contributed by Gilles Cuniberti, Brooke Marshall and Louise Ellen Teitz. They are the authors (with the late Peter Mankowski) of a commentary on the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements forthcoming with Edward Elgar. On 9 October 2025, the CJEU delivered its judgment in Case C-540/24, Cabris Investment already discussed […]

In Cabris Investments, a case decided on 9 October 2025, the Court of Justice ruled on the interpretation of Article 25 of Regulation No 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments (Brussels I bis). Article 25 is concerned with choice-of-court agreements. It applies where the parties to a dispute, “regardless of their […]

On 17 October 2025, Regulation (EU) 2025/2073 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings to replace its Annexes A and B was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The amendment reflects recent notifications by several Member States introducing new types […]

After two successful editions (here and here), the new edition of the EAPIL Winter School is scheduled to held on-site in Como, in the cloister of the Basilica di Sant’Abbondio, from 2 to 6 February 2026. It is organised by the European Association of Private International Law and the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the […]

Earlier this year, Symeon Symeonides posted on SSRN an essay written in the occasion of a symposium titled 50 Years in the Conflicts Vineyard, which was held in the author’s honor in May 2024 at Willamette University Law School and sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws. The essay […]

The third issue of the RabelsZ (Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht) for 2025 has been finalized. This is a special issue with contributions that were presented at the memorial symposium in honour of the late Jürgen Basedow, held in Hamburg on 29 November 2024, under the title “Private International Law – Uniform Law […]

The PAX Moot case for the 2026 moot competition on Private International Law was published. The 2026 Round is dedicated to Vladimir Koutikov, a distinguished Bulgarian scholar and expert in private international law The Vladimir Koutikov Round of the competition requires participants to deal with matters related to an international sale of goods between an Italian […]

The third issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 was just published. It contains three articles dealing with conflict issues (and a fourth concerned with immigration law) and a number of casenotes. In the first article, Etienne Farnoux (University of Strasbourg) discusses the relationship between fundamental rights and the public policy […]

This post was contributed by Heloise Meur, who is a lecturer at Paris 8 University. International distribution agreements are a significant source of litigation which result in legal uncertainty. First, these contracts are not typical ones: they belong to a group of contracts which organize a kind of cooperation between the parties. Second, they are […]

On 19 and 20 November 2025, the 35th Conference on Private International Law, entitled The Role of Judicial Actors in Shaping Private International Law: A Comparative Perspective” will take place at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne. This year’s edition will focus on the vital role of judicial actors — including judges, lawyers, […]

Elena Bargelli (University of Pisa), Anatol Dutta (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and and François Trémosa (Notary) have edited, in cooperation with  Paul Patreider (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and Elisa Stracqualursi (University of Pisa), Extra-Judicial Administration of Justice in Cross-Border Family and Succession Matters ‒ Comparative and Policy Perspectives with Giuffrè. The book examines […]

The European Commission has formally withdrawn two legislative proposals related to judicial cooperation in civil matters, namely the Proposal for a Regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims, as well as the Proposal for a Directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (AI Liability Directive). A notice of […]

On 3 July 2025, Advocate General Norkus delivered an opinion in Case C‑485/24 Locatrans Sarl v ES ECLI:EU:C:2025:528. The case concerns the determination of the habitual place of work under Article 6(2)(a) of the 1980 Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations of a driver who, under a single employment contract, worked for […]

In a judgment of 20 September 2025 (Case BS-19161/2025-HJR), the Danish Supreme Court clarified that the 2007 Lugano Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters governs the time limit for appealing exequatur decisions. National procedural rules, the Court added, cannot be applied to issues for which the […]