This announcement has kindly been provided by Matthias Lehmann and Lukas Petschning (University of Vienna).
On 30 November and 1 December 2026, the University of Vienna (Section for Comparative, Uniform and Private International Law) will host a conference entitled „Conflict
This announcement has kindly been shared with us by <a Roger Michalski (University of Oklahoma).
We are excited to announce that the Third Conflict of Laws Annual Workshop (CLAW3) will be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Keio University Law School in Tokyo (<a KLS) will be hosting a seminar entitled “Keio University Law School Book Series Seminar: Hart’s Studies in Private International Law – Asia” at Room 2B12 in South Building, <a Keio University Mita
By <a Faraz Firouzi Mandomi
<a Iran’s use of property measures against critics abroad is no longer <a hypothetical. In March 2026, Iran’s Prosecutor-General’s Office warned Iranians living abroad that support for, or cooperation with, states regarded by Iran
Breakdown of the Rules-Based International Order
– What Role for Private International Law?
Following the first Private International Law Festival in 2022 (<a conference report), on 24-25 September 2026, the <a University of Edinburgh Law School and the <a
Thalia Kruger, University of Antwerp & Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
This piece is based on a paper that I presented at the World Congress on Adults Protection, held in Amsterdam from 8 to 10 July 2026. It is
A new issue of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht is now available and includes contributions on EU private law, comparative law and legal history, legal unification, private international law, and individual European private law regimes. The full table of
I. Introduction
Recent years have witnessed a movement towards the dejudicialization of consensual divorce and the proliferation of extrajudicial divorce mechanisms notably in Europe. While this mode of “private divorce” is not, as such, a new phenomenon and extrajudicial divorce
For anyone who begins studying private international law – particularly from a civil law perspective – one of the first concepts encountered, after Savigny’s ‘Copernican Revolution’, is the American ‘Choice-of-Law Revolution’. Since the late 1950s, American courts and scholars have
