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The Special Interest Group established in the framework of the European Law Institute (ELI) to deal with family and succession law plans to award of a prize recognizing outstanding doctoral theses in Comparative Family Law, Comparative Succession Law, and Comparative or European Private International Law in the field of family or succession. A call has […]

The registrations for the Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2026 are open. The 2026 edition of the Centre will focus on Cyberspace and International Law. The Directors of Research will be Mohamed S. Helal (Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law) for the English-speaking section, and Lukas Rass-Masson (University of Toulouse) for […]

In 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in its KK and Others v. Denmark judgment that Denmark had violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by its legislative measures trying to prevent commercial surrogacy arrangements (reported for the blog here). Measures were taken by Danish institutions in response […]

The third issue of the Journal du droit international for 2025 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues. It is also worth mentioning a contribution on (public) international law that echoes a special issue of the Journal, published earlier this year to mark its 150th anniversary. In […]

Nadia Rusinova has recently published an open access book titled Practical Handbook on EU Family Law. Part I: Key Concepts, Legal Terminology, and CJEU Case Law in Cross-Border Judicial Cooperation (2025).The Handbook can be downloaded from the Author’s website here. The blurb reads as follows: The EU Family Law Handbook is a unique, practitioner-focused resource, […]

The author of this post is Pierfancesco Rossi, tenured researcher of International Law at the University of Teramo. On 5 June 2025, the Hague Court of Appeal declined to grant exequatur to a Ukrainian judgment holding Russian energy giant Gazprom jointly and severally liable for material damages incurred during Russia’s invasion of the country. The […]

At the University of Vienna, a Chair for Comparative Law and Private International Law will become vacant in 2026 (current holder: Professor Helmut Ofner). We are looking for experts around the world.   The role will primarily involve teaching and research in private international law and comparative law. Knowledge of the German language and the […]

The second issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. It features three contributions. Francesco Pesce, Il riconoscimento delle decisioni straniere in materia civile tra previsioni sulla competenza funzionale del giudice interno e comunicazioni alla Commissione europea [Recognition of Foreign Decisions in Civil Matters between Provisions on the […]

The authors of this post are Birgit van Houtert and Marco Pasqua, co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. The post is the result of the collective work of the members of the Working Group. On 27 June 2025, the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions held its first online meeting, […]

This post was written by Marco Buzzoni,  Doctoral Researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL). By a post of 16 July 2025, Professor Gilles Cuniberti reported on this blog about a ruling of the Grenoble Court of Appeal that refused enforcement of a Luxembourg judgment because the certificate required by Article 53 of the […]

The second edition of International Asset Tracing in Insolvency, edited by Felicity Toube, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. The publisher’s blurb reads as follows. This is the only book to provide comprehensive coverage of the legal issues involved in asset tracing in insolvencies. Both corporate and personal insolvencies are covered in domestic […]

In a judgment of 28 January 2025, the Court of Appeal of Grenoble (France) ruled that a Luxembourg judgement could not be enforced in France in the absence of an Article 53 Brussels I bis certificate enforcement, as it was not satisfied that the foreign judgment was enforceable. Background A Luxembourg bank had successfully sued […]

The fourth issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 will be published on 1 July. The following advance abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. H.-P. Mansel, 70 Years of the German Council for Private International Law (1953-2023) [German] On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary […]

Building on the success of the two previous editions (here and here), the third edition of the EAPIL Winter School is currently being organised by the European Association of Private International Law and the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria in Como, in cooperation with the Law Faculty of the University […]

The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan invites young scholars to present the outcome of their doctoral research on any topic within the field of private international law, transnational law or the law of international arbitration, at a dedicated seminar to be held in Milan (the MECSI Seminar). Each MECSI Seminar will revolve […]

An employment dispute between a Greek stewardess and her employer offered the Supreme Court of Greece the opportunity to discuss the interpretation of Articles 20 and 21 of the Brussels I bis Regulation, on jurisdiction over individual employment contracts. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter (Ruling No 1453 of 2024) relies heavily on the […]

The T.M.C. Asser Institute has launched a call for abstracts for the panel Emerging Voices in Private International Law, which will take place as part of Adapting Private International Law in an Era of Uncertainty – Asser Institute 60 Years Series Conference, to be held on 24 October 2025 in The Hague. PhD candidates and […]

The Faculty of Law at Humboldt University of Berlin is inviting applications for a Junior Professorship in Private Law and Private International Law, to be filled as of 1 October 2026. The successful candidate will engage in teaching and research across private law and private international law, broadly defined – including international family and succession […]

In response to both global and domestic revelations of serious shortcomings in the intercountry adoption system, the Swedish government launched an official inquiry on the matter in October 2021. The objective was to assess past practices and propose legal reforms as well as other appropriate measures. Titled ‘Sweden’s intercountry adoption activities – Lessons learned and […]

The establishment of an international chamber in the Paris Commercial Court aimed at competing with and divesting judicial business from the London Commercial Court. As the possibility that the United Kingdom would stop participating in the various instruments of judicial cooperation adopted by the European Union appeared to be increasingly credible, the governments of a […]