In an <a earlier post on this blog, we presented Part 1 of Nadia Rusinova’s Practical Handbook on EU Family Law, highlighting its success in bringing clarity and structure to the complex framework of cross-border family law in the
The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles:
B. Steinrötter: The UNIDROIT Conflict-of-Laws Rule on the Law of Crypto-Assets. A contribution to the classification of Principle 5 of the UNIDROIT Principles
A. The Impetus for Presenting the Issue
In light of the publication of three judgments of the Thessaloniki First Instance Court concerning the service of documents in Contracting States to the 1965 Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial
The standard textbook of Belgian Private International Law in French has just been published in its fourth edition (by <a Larcier Intersentia). The great scholar François Rigaux published the first version of this précis in 1977-1979 (in two volumes).
This report was written by Josephine Götze, LL.M.-student at the University of Groningen. An extended version will appear in a forthcoming edited volume published by Springer.
On 29 May 2026, the <a WEAKER PIL research line at the Faculty of
Following an <a earlier call on this blog, the Civil Justice Conversations Series organised by the <a European Civil Justice Centre will kick off on 11 September at 10 am CEST. At this first session Benedikt Schmitz (Assistant Professor of
The fifth annual Asian Private International Law Academy (APILA) Conference will take place in person at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul (South Korea) on Saturday 12 (Day 1) and Sunday 13 (Day 2) December 2026. The APILA Conference will be in the form of two days of
by Marta Liduma, LLB candidate in International and European Law, University of Groningen
A Dutch actor dies in March. By April, his likeness starts to appear widely. Generated videos show him promoting a supplement, and one clip ends with a
On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, the <a Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its monthly virtual workshop <a Current Research in Private International Law at 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (CEST).
Xandra Kramer (<a Erasmus University Rotterdam & Utrecht University
This review concentrates principally on the private international law dimensions of Andrew Dickinson and Alexander Thompson’s The State Immunity Act 1978. Although state immunity is fundamentally a subject of public international law, the legislation operates at the point where
