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Regarding Private International Law, May 2025 will be a quiet month at the Court of Justice. Subject to updates, there is just one opinion scheduled, to be published on Thursday 22. In case C-279/24, Liechtensteinische Landesbank, AG R. Norkus has been asked to support the Court acting in a chamber of five judges (I. Jarukaitis, […]

In a judgment of 12 March 2025, the French supreme court for civil and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) decided that it would not align characterisation for the purpose of its national rules of international jurisdictional with the EU characterisation adopted in Granarolo. As already reported on this blog, a few weeks later, the Court […]

In preparation of the University of Bologna (Ravenna Campus) Summer School on Transnational Litigation, already noted on this blog, a warm-up webinar will take place on 6 May 2025, from 5 to 6 pm CET. The session will feature Ekaterina Aristova (Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford), who will […]

The second issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 has been published. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. C. Budzikiewicz/H.-P. Mansel/K. Thorn/R. Wagner, European Conflict of Law 2024: Business as usual? [German] This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the field […]

This post was written by Lea Marion who is a Member of the Paris Bar. The legal characterization of claims for abrupt termination of established commercial relationships — an action specific to French law (Article L. 442-1, II of the French Commercial Code) — continues to be a fertile ground for uncertainty and doctrinal debate. […]

Diplomatic agents, consular officers and other persons serving as staff members at a State’s representation abroad mostly move from one State to another throughout their career, sometimes spending no more than a few years, if not months, before they are assigned to a new post at a different location. Their situation illustrates well what the […]

The first issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. It features five contributions. Bruno Nascimbene, Cittadinanza: riflessioni su problemi attuali di diritto internazionale ed europeo [Citizenship: Reflections on Current Issues of International and European Law] The theme of citizenship is the subject of some reflections concerning its […]

The general course given by Louis d’Avout (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) in 2022 at the Hague Academy of International Law on Searching for Worldwide Legal Coherence (La cohérence mondiale du droit) was published in Volume 443 of the Collected Courses of the Academy and is soon to be published as a pocketbook. The author has provided the […]

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (issue 3 of 2024) features five articles related to public interest litigation, preceded by an introductory paper by Xandra Kramer. The articles address different aspects of public interest litigation either from a primarily public law or private law perspective. Xandra Kramer, Public Interest Litigation at the […]

In his opinion of 3 April 2025 in C-713/23, Wojewoda Mazowiecki, Advocate General (AG) Richard De la Tour expressed the view that the Articles 20 and 21(1) TFEU, read with Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, allow a Member State to refuse the transcription of a same-sex marriage certificate lawfully issued in another Member State, […]

The registrations for the Hague Academy Winter Course of 2026 will be open from 1 May 2025 to 1 October 2025 for full fee applicants, and from 1 May 2025 to 31 July 2025 for scholarship applicants. The course will be opened by Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (Former President of the International Criminal Court) with […]

In January 2025, AG J. Richard de la Tour delivered his opinion in case C-536/23, Mutua Madrileña Automovilista, upon a request from the Landgericht München I (Regional Court of Munich I, Germany) asking the Court of Justice : Must Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 [the Brussels I bis Regulation], read in conjunction with Article 11(1)(b) […]

On 14 April 2025, the Council of the European Union approved the position of the European Parliament at first reading, illustrated in this blog, on the proposal for a directive amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 (the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD) as regards the dates from which Member States are to […]

On 9 April 2025, the French Ministry of Justice issued instructions for the public prosecutors of Nantes and Rennes, who are responsible of the French central status registry, to register parentage as resulting from foreign surrogacies. The instruction expressly relies on the judgments of the Cour de cassation of October 2024 and November 2024 which […]

A collection of essays honoring Marc Fallon has recently been published by Larcier under the title Vers un code européen de droit international privé? Further information can be found here. The collection, edited by Jean-Yves Carlier and Stéphanie Francq (both professors at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as the honoree), brings together some twenty contributions (mostly […]

Stefano Dominelli (Univ. of Genova) has authored ‘Regolamento Bruxelles I bis e US jurisdiction in personam: riflessioni e proposte su condivisioni valoriali, influenze e osmosi di metodi’ (Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2025). The volume, in Italian (with the conclusive chapter also translated in English) is freely accessible online. He has shared the following presentation of his […]

As reported on this blog, the European Commission published on 26 February 2025 a proposal for a directive amending Directives 2006/43, 2013/34, 2022/2464 and 2024/1760. The initiative, part of the Omnibus Simplification Package, seeks to adjust certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence obligations. On 1 April 2025, the European Parliament invoked the urgent procedure […]

On 20 March 2025, the Danish Supreme Court ruled (in case BS-34884/2024-HJR) that a Chinese arbitral award could not be enforced in Denmark due to a lack of proper service. Background In 2020, a Chinese arbitral tribunal held that the investments that an investor had made for a company should be repaid. Since the defendant […]

The Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen is relaunching its Crossroads in Private International Law research seminar series. The programme will open on 23 April 2025, at 14:00 (UK time), with a seminar on Consumer Protection and Justice in Israeli Private International Law by Sharon Shakargy (The Hebrew […]

In a judgment of 2 April 2025, the French supreme court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) ruled that there is no exception in Article 25 of the Brussels I bis Regulation to the enforcement of jurisdiction clauses to ensure the application of the overriding mandatory provisions of the forum. As a consequence, […]