Xandra Kramer, Stefaan Voet and Adriana Dori have edited an excellent volume on European Civil Procedure. To celebrate its launch, the editors are organising an on campus (Leuven) and online seminar, with authors speaking on topics related to the
European Civil Procedure Seminar, Leuven, 25 and 26 June 2026
The <a European Civil Justice Centre is pleased to announce a European Civil Procedure Seminar, which will take place on 25 and 26 June 2026 at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of KU Leuven.
The seminar is organised on
Supreme Court: Whether accused involved in matrimonial offence can be permitted to accept Job Abroad?
After hearing learned counsel for the parties, in our opinion, the permission sought by the appellant to travel abroad to join as Cyber Security Architect with a company in Belgium should not be denied, merely on account of pendency of
Not much peace in Greenpeace v Energy Transfer. Dutch court responds with confirmation of jurisdiction in anti-SLAPP claim while US court issues partial anti-suit viz same claim. CJEU Brussels Ia authorities galore.
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The Clock Is Still Ticking On The European Union’s Product Liability Directive
For about 18 months now, we’ve been feeling a bit like Chicken Little (or Henny Penny for those in Europe).
We have been posting about the dangers hidden in the impending implementation of the European Union’s Product Liability Directive
Glasswing widens: Anthropic puts Mythos inside power, water and hospital operators across more than 15 countries
Editor’s Note: Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners, extending access to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries. The restricted Claude Mythos Preview offensive-security model has already surfaced more
Five great reads on cyber, data, and legal discovery for May 2026
Editor’s Note: May was the month the rulebooks caught up with the technology — and then bent under it. In Dublin, forensic examiners conceded that proving a recording is intact no longer proves it is real, as deepfake fraud turned
ECJ ruling on data subject access requests: Some welcome relief for European employers, or not quite yet? (Part II)
By: Marga Caproni, Chelsea Gunning, Lisa Shannon, Annette Demmel, Marmare Barekati, Malgorzata Grzelak, Floriane Essling and Marion Cavalier
Following on from our blog earlier in the week concerning the ECJ’s recent decision on data subject access requests (DSARs), we take
Domestic Courts and the States’ Obligation to Prevent Genocide and Serious Violations of IHL: The Brussels Court of Appeal’s Interlocutory Judgment of 16 March 2026
On 16 March 2026, the Brussels Court of Appeal (hereafter, the “Court”) issued an interlocutory judgment in summary proceedings (référé) concerning the alleged failure of the Belgian State to comply with its international obligations in relation to the
Once Again in Belgium: Prosecuting a Colonial Crime – The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
In December 2024, a Belgian Court of Appeal recognised the civil liability of the Belgian State for a colonial crime committed in the Belgian Congo between 1948 and 1953. In the Métis case, as already addressed by scholars,