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Private International Law in Türkiye by Emre Esen and Melis Avsar is now available: https://iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/tr/book/private-international-law-in-turkiye/home 

Private International Law in Türkiye is now available and free to access, offering a comprehensive English-language resource on Turkish Private International Law. Written by Emre Esen and Melis Avsar, the book fills a significant gap for students, practitioners, and scholars alike. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the authors provide practical guidance for cross-border disputes in Türkiye while addressing key discussions from Turkish legal literature. In addition, the book includes Turkish court decisions and applications, making it an invaluable tool for legal professionals.

The author of this post is Nishat Hyder-Rahman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MSCA Impact Fellowship Programme, Department of Private and Economic Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. A previous post on this post discussed the chamber decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Verhoeven v France. The case concerned whether the French […]

Angola deposited its instrument of accession to the 1993 Adoption Convention on 14 March 2024. According to Article 46(2)(a), and as notified by the Depositary (i.e. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands), this Convention entered into force for Angola on 1 July 2024.

The Depositary provided a six-month period to file objections in accordance with Article 44(3) of the Adoption Convention, which ended on 18 September 2024.

Germany filed an objection on 27 August 2024 and the Netherlands on 17 September 2024. As a result, the Adoption Convention did not enter into force between Angola and those States. For more information, click here.

Interestingly, under this Convention there is approximately a 3-month gap between the date of entering into force and the ending of the objection period.

 

Emre Esen (Istanbul University) and Melis Avşar (Istanbul University) authored Private International Law in Türkiye with Istanbul University Press. The authors explain that, while teaching private international law in English to Erasmus students at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Law, they noticed a gap: despite the availability of numerous resources on private international law in Turkish, […]

The book Derecho de familia internacional en un contexto de creciente migración: cuestiones vinculadas con el reglamento 2019/1111 has just been released by Aranzadi. The director of the book is Professor Beatriz Campuzano Díaz. It is open access, click here.

The table of contents is as follows (underlined the only article in English):

I PARTE. CUESTIONES VINCULADAS CON EL ÁMBITO DE APLICACIÓN

Tratamiento de la diversidad de estructuras familiares en los reglamentos europeos y continuidad del estatuto personal

Mª Ángeles Sánchez Jiménez

La filiación en el DIPr de la UE: entre la situación actual y las perspectivas de cambio

Beatriz Campuzano Díaz

II PARTE. CUESTIONES VINCULADAS CON LAS NORMAS DE COMPETENCIA JUDICIAL INTERNACIONAL

Los mecanismos de solución de la litispendencia internacional en materia de responsabilidad parental y la comprobación de la competencia judicial internacional. Perspectiva española

Elena Cano Bazaga

III PARTE. CUESTIONES VINCULADAS CON LA SUSTRACCIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE MENORES

El derecho del menor a ser oído y su articulación en el Derecho procesal español. Especial referencia al procedimiento de restitución o retorno

Pilar Martín-Ríos

Análisis de la jurisprudencia sobre el procedimiento de restitución de menores y su regulación en la LEC

Antonio Jesús Calzado Llamas

Problems related to the procedure of minors´returning decisions, with reference to Polish law

Monika Walachowska

IV PARTE. CUESTIONES VINCULADAS CON LA EFICACIA EXTRATERRITORIAL DE RESOLUCIONES, DOCUMENTOS PÚBLICOS Y ACUERDOS

Medidas para facilitar la aplicación en España de las normas sobre reconocimiento y ejecución del Reglamento 2019/1111: propuestas de lege ferenda

María Ángeles Rodríguez Vázquez

Mediación en procesos de responsabilidad parental

Antonia Durán Ayago

V PARTE. LAS RELACIONES CON TERCEROS PAÍSES

Cooperación judicial internacional en materia matrimonial y de responsabilidad parental con el Reino Unido y Gibraltar después del Brexit

Miguel Checa Martínez

El reconocimiento del divorcio marroquí en España. El método comparado como alternativa

Salma El Ouazzani Chahdi

Las resoluciones sobre filiación y las relaciones paternofiliales dictadas por las autoridades españolas y su incidencia en los ordenamientos jurídico español y marroquí: una perspectiva de género

Mª Dolores Adam Muñoz

El papel de las autoridades brasileñas en la lucha contra la sustracción internacional de niños

Aline Beltrame de Moura, Fellipe Leal

VI PARTE. MENORES, FAMILIA, DERECHO DE EXTRANJERÍA Y PROTECCIÓN INTERNACIONAL

¿Novedades en el Derecho de familia de los extranjeros en España? Un nuevo derecho “de familias” también para los extranjeros en España

Elena López Barba

Menores refugiados, una aproximación a las medidas de protección: del Reglamento Dublín al Reglamento Bruselas, pasando por Ucrania

Casilda Rueda Fernández

El derecho de la infancia migrante no acompañada a reunirse con sus familiares en situaciones fronterizas

Lucía Ione Padilla Espinosa

Protección de menores víctimas de matrimonios forzados en el derecho migratorio de la Unión Europea. Especial referencia al derecho de reagrupación familiar

Cristina María Zamora Gómez

El Derecho Internacional Privado y su incidencia en la protección jurídica de las mujeres víctimas de violencia de género. Especial referencia al Reglamento 2019/1111

Juana de los Ángeles Toledo Larrea

 

 

 

 

On 26 and 27 June 2025, the University of Graz will host a Private International Law Workshop, following previous editions in Linz (2022), Innsbruck (2023), and Vienna (2024). The workshop, held in German, is being organized by Florian Heindler (SFU Vienna), Simon Laimer (University of Innsbruck), Brigitta Lurger (University of Graz), and Martina Melcher (University […]

The editors of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) welcome abstracts from scholars and practitioners at all stages of their career for the EYIEL 2025. This year’s Focus Section will be on Global Sports and International and European Economic Law. Next to this, the General Section will consider contributions addressing Current Challenges, Developments […]

As announced on this blog, the second edition of the European Association of Private International Law Winter School will take place in Como between 10 and 15 February 2025. Organised by the University of Insubria, in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Murcia, the 2025 edition of the Winter School […]

On 18 September 2024, the UK Supreme Court finally gave the reasons for its unanimous judgment (Lord Leggatt, with whom Lord Reed, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows and Lady Rose agreed), announced on 23 April 2024, in UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30. It upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal ([2024] […]

As announced, the Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) will be holding its annual XLVII Seminar entitled “The teaching, research and promotion of private international law in Mexico” (La enseñanza, investigación y difusión del Derecho Internacional Privado en México) from 23 to 25 October 2024. The final program is now available here. The deadline for early bird registration is 23 September 2024, click here.

In addition, AMEDIP is organising a webinar on Thursday 26 September 2024 at 15:00 (Mexico City time). The topic of the webinar is international civil judicial cooperation & new technologies and will be presented by Prof. Pablo Enrique de Rosas (in Spanish).

The details of the webinar are:

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88653189527?pwd=3R3n0Wy7W1KjQbs0YaBp0dRJZXaoEd.1

Meeting ID: 886 5318 9527

Password: AMEDIP

Participation is free of charge.

This event will also be streamed live: https://www.facebook.com/AmedipMX

The United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) is organising a seminar online on the children’s right to be heard (incl. in cases of international child abduction) on 25 September 2024 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST.

Participation is free of charge. For more information and access details, click here.

The programme is as follows:

14:00  Opening remarks
Marieke Hopman (Maastricht University)

14:05  Institutionalized adolescents and their right to be heard
Julieta Marotta (UNU-MERIT) & Laura Lora (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

14:25  Children in post-conflict peacebuilding and their right to be heard 
Lucy Opoka (Leiden University)

14:45  Internationally abducted children & their right to be heard 
Mayela Celis Aguilar (Maastricht University)

15:05  Family judges and the visibility of children in court
Alicia Taliercio (former Family Judge Prov. Buenos Aires)

15:25  Directors and the right of children to be heard
Natalia V. González García Cuerva (director of Hogar También son Nuestros)

15:45  Open dialogue
Moderator: Julieta Marotta (UNU-MERIT)

UNU-MERIT is a research and training institute of the United Nations University (UNU – headquarters in Tokyo and 13 institutes) which collaborates closely with Maastricht University.

Since its foundation in 1926, the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg (or its predecessor) has continuously published the collection of PIL decisions by German courts. ‘Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des Internationalen Privatrechts’, or short ‘IPRspr’, offers the complete and systematic documentation of German case law on private international law, including procedural law and foreign law. The decisions are boiled down to their private international law aspects and categorized according to subject matter. Depending on the case, the headnotes are reformulated or completely rewritten.

Even though both academics and practitioners have always regarded the IPRspr as an important source of information, its practical value was somewhat diminished by the time lag between the reporting period and the publication, as well as by the limited search options. In order to realize its full potential, it was therefore decided in 2019 to convert the IPRspr into a freely accessible database. After several years of planning, programming and updating, this project has now been successfully concluded under the direction of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law, headed by Jan Peter Schmidt.

On 1 October 2024 at 11:00, the editorial team will officially present the ‘IPRspr 2.0’, as part of the series ‘Current Research in Private International Law’ (registration at <https://events.mpipriv.de/vorstellungderiprspr>; in line with the language of publication, the event will be in German). The database can already be accessed at <iprspr.de>.

The new IPRspr not only offers free and easy access to the PIL decisions of German courts, but also a wide range of search and retrieval functions. The database currently contains around 6,500 decisions dating back to 2004. New decisions are continually being incorporated. Next to the “Hamburg Guidelines for Ascertaining and Applying Foreign Law in German Litigation”, which will soon be published in their English translation, the IPRspr thus forms another building block for the successful dealing with cross-border cases.

As a book publication, however, the IPRspr will be discontinued. The volume published in 2022 with the decisions from 2019 was therefore the last edition of IPRspr as a printed work after almost a hundred years of existence.

The editorial team encourages the PIL community to cite decisions in parallel with the IPRspr number in future and to submit or communicate new decisions. And it looks forward to any other kind of feedback (iprspr@mpipriv.de).

This post is authored by Antonio Leandro, Professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Bari. On 19 September 2024, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in case C-501/23 DL v Land Berlin, which deals with the functioning of the COMI in Regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings (‘EIR’). The Court […]

As announced on this blog, Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo) edited Research Methods in Private International Law – A Handbook on Regulation, Research and Teaching. Following the previous online book launch, an additional one is scheduled for 23 September 2024, from 10am to 11:30am CEST. Similar […]

On 8 October 2024, Jeremy Heymann and Marylou Françoise (both Université jean Moulin Lyon 3) will be hosting a conference on ‘International Commercial Courts, State Model(s) of Specialised (Domestic) Courts ?’ in Lyon. The conference constitutes the inaugural event of a series of conferences on ‘International Disputes and Specialised Courts’ and features practical and academic perspectives from numerous jurisdictions. It will be held both in Lyon and online.

The programme can be found here; the registration form can be found here.

Yesterday (18-09-2024), Switzerland acceded to the HCCH Choice of Court Convention and filed a declaration under Article 22 with respect to non-exclusive choice of court agreements. This is particularly noteworthy because this is the first time a declaration under Article 22 of the Choice of Court Convention has been filed. The Choice of Court Convention will enter into force for Switzerland on 1 January 2025.

Unlike the European Union and other Contracting States, Switzerland did not file a declaration under Article 21 of this Convention (declarations with respect to specific matters, e.g. insurance contracts).

The Swiss declaration indicates the following:

Switzerland

18-09-2024

In accordance with Article 22, paragraph 1, Switzerland declares that its courts will recognise and enforce judgments given by courts of other Contracting States designated in a choice of court agreement concluded by two or more parties that meets the requirements of Article 3, paragraph c), and designates, for the purpose of deciding disputes which have arisen or may arise in connection with a particular legal relationship, a court or courts of one or more Contracting States (a non-exclusive choice of court agreement).

While this is a significant development, Article 22 of the Choice of Court Convention only applies in a reciprocal manner and only with regard to the provisions of Chapter III (Arts. 8-15). In other words, and as indicated in the Explanatory Report written by Trevor Hartley and Masato Dogauchi: “For Article 22 to operate, the State of origin and the State in which recognition or enforcement is sought must both be Contracting States and they must both have made a declaration under Article 22” (paragraph 241). The Explanatory Report also specifies that “[b]oth declarations must be in force when recognition is sought; otherwise there is no reciprocity” (paragraph 255).

Moreover, and in addition to reciprocity, Article 22(2) of this Convention sets out a series of conditions that the non-exclusive choice of court agreements must satisfy.

The seminal book of Ronald A. Brand and Paul M. Herrup further clarifies “A choice of court agreement will be a ‘non-exclusive choice of court agreement’ for purposes of recognition and enforcement under Article 22 if it designates ‘a court or courts of one or more Contracting States’. This definition contrasts with the final element of exclusivity in Article 3(a) […]” (see, The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: Commentary and documents (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 154).

Unless another Contracting State files a declaration under Article 22, the recognition and enforcement of non-exclusive choice of court agreements under this article will sadly not yet see the light of day. In any case, this is very interesting development, which may perhaps influence other existing or future Contracting States to do the same.

The HCCH news item is available here.

On 8 October 2024, Jeremy Heymann and Marylou Françoise will host a conference on International Commercial Courts, State Model(s) of Specialised (Domestic) Courts? at the University of Lyon 3. A first panel will give the perspective of judges sitting on three international commercial courts (French, German, Dutch). A second panel will give an academic perspective […]

The 2024 Asia-Pacific Colloquium of the Journal of Private International Law (JPIL) will be held on 5-6 December 2024 at the Melbourne Law School of the University of Melbourne in Australia.

The format will be similar to previous colloquia where participants are requested to submit a paper for distribution in advance to other attendees. The colloquium will then take the form of a short presentation of each paper by each participant followed by a roundtable discussion. As with previous colloquia, the aim is to assist participants in preparing their papers for submission to the JPIL.

The theme of the 2024 Colloquium is ‘Private International Law: Domestic Law or International Law?’ While private international law forms part of a country’s domestic legal system, it has also been influenced by international developments, such as foreign decisions, scholarly writings, conventions and other transnational instruments. Participants are encouraged to consider topics in private international law that address this theme: for example, some areas have remained wholly domestic in nature while others reveal clear evidence of cross- border harmonisation. Is ‘internationalisation’ of private international law always achievable or desirable?

Please note that participants will be responsible for their travel to and accommodation in Melbourne for the colloquium. Lunch will be provided across the two days of the colloquium, together with a dinner on 5 December.

More information can be found here.

According to Article 12(1)(a) of Regulation 2020/1784 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (the Recast Service Regulation), the addressee may refuse service if the document is not written in, or is not accompanied by a translation into, “a language which the addressee understands”. The […]

The second edition of the HAIL Advanced Courses in Hong Kong, organised in cooperation with with the Asian Academy of International Law and (AAIL) and the Hong Kong Department of Justice, will take place on 2-6 December 2024 with a focus on one of the key features of Private International Law, namely Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters, in particular the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention.

For this Advanced Course, the Secretary-General of The Hague Academy of International Law (Professor Jean-Marc Thouvenin) has invited leading academics and practitioners from around the world to Hong Kong, including Teresa Cheng (AAIL), Giuditta Cordero-Moss (University of Oslo),  Pietro Franzina (Cahtolic University of Milan), Judge Shen Hongyu (Supreme People’s Court, China), Matthias Lehmann (University of Vienna) and Matthias Weller (University of Bonn), who will deliver eight expert lectures on:

Lecture 1: ‘Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Decisions: General Presentation’ (Teresa Cheng)
Lecture 2: ‘Contemporary Approaches to the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: A Comparative Overview’ (Pietro Franzina)
Lecture 3: ‘Public Policy as a Limit to Enforcement and Recognition’ (Giuditta Cordero-Moss)
Lecture 4: , ‘Unfolding the 2019 Hague Convention: Genesis, Ratifications, Scope, Key Provisions, and China’s Perspective on International Recognition and Enforcement’ (Judge Shen Hongyu)
Lecture 5: ‘Jurisdictional Filters I: General Concept; Residence and Choice of Court’ (Matthias Weller)
Lecture 6: ‘Judgments that Ruled on Preliminary Questions Outside the Scope of the Convention and Judgments that Consist of Severable Parts’ (Pietro Franzina)
Lecture 7: ‘Jurisdictional Filters II: Contract, Tort, forum rei sitae’ (Matthias Weller)
Lecture 8: ‘Arts. 22 and 25 of the HCCH Judgment Convention’ (Teresa Cheng)

In addition, Matthias Lehmann will deliver expert lectures on ‘Crypto Currency and International Law’ in the afternoon. He will also offer an Introduction to ‘International Comparative Law’ as a separate one-day event on 30 November 2024 (separate registration and fee required; see here).

The registration fee of HK$ 10,000 includes daily lunch and refreshments. Full attendance is mandatory. Interested candidates are invited to complete the online application form by 18 October 2024. All applications are subject to review. Succesful applicants will receive email confirmation by 11 November 2024. Registered participants will have pre-course access to the HAIL e-learning platform that provides reading materials prepared by the lecturers. A certificate of attendance will be awarded to participant with a perfect attendance record.

For further information provided by the organisers, please refer to the attached eFlyer and the AAIL Event Webpage. There you will also find all the necessary information regarding the separate Comparative Law Short-Course.