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  • The Written Observations Submitted in the Gambazzi Case

    Many thanks to Prof. Koji Takahashi for sending the following text and the files with the written observations submitted in the Gambazzi case. The written observations submitted to the European Court of Justice are normally…

  • Anti-suit Injunction Issued By US Court

    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided the case of Applied Medical v. The Surgical Company (available here), which raised the issue whether a district court abused its discretion in…

  • Failure of the Hague Abduction Convention: M.J. Carrascosa’s fate

    M. J. Carrascosa and her ex-husband P. Innes met in a bar in New Jersey in 1999. They married that year in Spain and returned to the U.S., where they both worked. Their daughter V.…

  • Immunity of CIA Agents for Abduction in Italy

    There are interesting posts on this issue at EJIL: Talk! by Apo Akande and Marko Milanovic. … an Italian Court has convicted 23 American agents (including the former head of the CIA in Milan) and 2…

  • Third Issue of 2009’s Revue Critique de Droit International Privé

    The last issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé was just released. It contains three articles and several casenotes. The full table of content can be found here. The first article is authored…

  • Dámaso Ruiz-Járabo Colomer

    Advocate General Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer has passed away in Luxembourg. Born in 1949, Mr Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer was Judge and then Member of the Consejo General del Poder Judicial (General Council of the Judiciary of Spain).…

  • Publication: Hess, Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht

    Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hess (Heidelberg) has published a comprehensive work on European Law of Civil Procedure: Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht (C.F. Müller 2010. XXXII, 752 pages, Hardcover 128 EUR; ISBN 978-3-8114-3304-5) The publication provides an analysis of…

  • Conference on the Role of Ethics in International Law

    Some of our readers will be interested in the following conference this Friday in Washington, D.C. The Role of Ethics in International Law Event Information Friday, November 13, 2009 / 8:30 AM Tillar House/Cosmos Club…

  • And the Winner Is …

    The awards of the most noticeable cases of the ECJ go to: Centros:  5 votes and Gasser:  5 votes But let’s congratulate also:  Owusu: 3 votes Krombach: 2 votes Related posts:Most Noticeable Cases of the ECJ On Monday November…

  • Most Noticeable Cases of the ECJ

    On Monday November 23rd, 2009, the Master in European Litigation of the university of Luxembourg will celebrate its tenth anniversary. One of various talks to be given throughout the afternoon will present and discuss the Ten Most…