Dear Friends and Colleagues, Due to a conflicting conference on the previously planned date (9 and 10 September 2022) and with a view to ongoing developments on the subject-matter

in the EU, we have made the decision to reschedule our Conference to Friday and Saturday, 9 and 10 June 2023. [...]

Today, the European Parliament by adopting JURI Committee Report A9-0177/2022 gave its consent to the accession of the European Union to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention.

The Explanatory Statement describes the convention with a view to the “growth in international trade and investment flows” as an “instrument […] of outmost [...]

Here is the opinion in Centripetal Systems, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., Judge Dyk writing for the panel.  Without going into greater detail than necessary here, the district

judge discovered that his wife owned stock in Cisco after having drafted an opinion in this bench trial but before having finalized it.  He thereafter entered judgment [...]

I just watched the incredibly heartwarming Netflix TV series, Heartstopper.  It focuses on the relationship between two teenaged high school students in England who are grappling

with their sexuality.  Charlie is a nerdy guy who had come out as gay and Nick is the star of the rugby team who comes to realize that he … Continue reading A [...]

As I wrote back in March: Last week, the court withdrew the February opinion and stated that a revised opinion would be forthcoming.  That opinion was handed down yesterday,

and it's a bit, well, anticlimactic--and, as Florian Mueller notes, it is designated as nonprecedential.  In a very brief per curiam opinion, the court now states [...]

  In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 9/10 June 2023, taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany, we are offering here

a Repository of contributions to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. Please email us if you miss something in it, we will update immediately… [...]

As previously announced, the Journal of Private International Law-Singapore Management University Virtual Conference on Conflicts of Jurisdiction will be held online on 23

to 24 June 2022 (6.00 pm to 10.20 pm Singapore time, 11.00 am to 3.20 pm British Summer Time on each day). [...]

In case you haven't seen it yet, at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference last week, the members agreed to a limited COVID vaccine waiver.  Here is a link to the decision. 

Although it is titled "Draft  Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement," it is, apparently, the final, approved version.  Key part is paragraph 1, which states [...]

This morning, the CJEU has pronounced on the interplay between the Brussels I bis Regulation and arbitration, this time in the context of the recognition in the UK of a judgment

given by a Spanish court. [...]

  Bank of China Limited v Chen [2022] NSWSC 749 (‘Bank of China v Chen’), decided on the 7 June 2022, is the first instance where the New South Wales Supreme Court (‘NSWSC’)

has recognised and enforced a Chinese civil mediation decision. [...]