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"This Web site is intended as a news and discussion portal to those interested in the conflict of laws (otherwise known as private international law)."
Author: This site has editors from 12 different nations. The general editor is Martin P. George, a postgraduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, U.K. The United States editor is Charles T. Kotuby, an associate at Jones Day in Washington, D.C.
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Recent Posts from Conflict of Laws.Net
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Netherlands Proposal on Private International Law (”Book 10″)
A Dutch Proposal on Private International Law, to be included as Book 10 of the Civil Code of the Netherlands, has been put before Parliament (Tweede Kamer, 2009-2010, 32137, Vastellings- en Invoeringswet Boek 10 Burgerlijk Wetboek; with…
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Publication: International Jurisdiction and Commercial Litigation.
International Jurisdiction and Commercial Litigation. Uniform Rules for Contract Disputes, by Hélène van Lith, T.M.C. Asser Press (distributed by Cambridge University Press), 2009. This interesting book includes a comprehensive analysis of the basic approaches to international…
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Annual Conference of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP)
The American Association of Private International Law (Asociación americana de derecho internacional privado ASADIP) will hold its third annual conference “International Business Law in a time of change” on 12 and 13 November in Venezuela,…
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Time to Update the Rome I Regulation
The Council has adopted a corrigendum to all versions of the Rome I Regulation to correct what appears to be an “obvious error”. Art. 28, which had previously provided that the Regulation would apply to…
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Bonanza at the British Institute
There’s plenty for private international law aficionados to devour in programme of forthcoming events at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. First, on Friday 6 November, Jonathan Faull, Director General of the Commission…
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Unfair arbitration clause before the ECJ
In a recent decision of October 6, 2009 (C 40/08 – Asturcom Telecomunicaciones SL v. Maria Cristina Rodríguez Nogueira) the European Court of Justice held that a national court or tribunal hearing an action for…
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New Journal of International Dispute Settlement
Oxford University Press will publish a new Journal of International Dispute Settlement from 2010 onwards. The General Editors will be Geneva based scholars Gabrielle Kaufman-K0hler and Joost Pauwelyn, with Thomas Schultz being the Managing Editor. Since…
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Krombach: an Update on the Efficacy of Private Enforcement in Criminal Law
As I promised readers to keep them updated on the recent developments in the Bamberski - Krombach case, and as it seems that there is not as much media coverage of the case outside of France as…
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Bertoli: Party Autonomy and the Rome II Regulation
Paolo Bertoli (University of Insubria) has published two interesting articles (in English) on the role of party autonomy in the Rome II regulation. Here are the references: Choice of Law by the Parties in the…
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New Title of De Conflictu Legum Collection
Prof. Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Santiago de Compostela) has just published her monograph entitled Las acciones colectivas y su eficacia extraterritorial. Problemas de recepción y transplante de las class actions en Europa (Collective actions and…