On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its 23rd monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 11:00-12:30 CEST. Rosario
Espinosa Calabuig (Universidad de Valencia) will speak, in English, about the topic [...]
We all live, and we all will die some day. For most of our lives, our deaths seem like they will happen at some unknown time far in the future. Not so for Australian writer
Cory Taylor when she died of cancer at age 61. In the last few weeks of her life, she produced … Continue reading Living, Dying, and Life After Death → [...]
Webinar series: ‘Crossroads in Private International Law’ First webinar: ‘Strategic Climate Change Litigation in the EU: Between Judicial Restraint and Proactive Judicial
Policy’ The Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law invites you to a webinar titled ‘Strategic Climate Change Litigation in the EU: Between Judicial Restraint [...]
The ASADIP is pleased to share with you the Partnership entered into with the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and the Center for the Study of Law, Economics
and Policy (CEDEP) with a view to hold its annual event. [...]
The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) is holding a webinar on 26 May 2022 at 3:00 pm (Mexico City time – CDT), 10:00 pm (CEST time). The
topic of the webinar is The impact of artificial intelligence on Private International Law and will be presented by Professor Wendolyne Nava, Professor Yaritza Pérez [...]
This October, the University of Oregon School of Law will be hosting the 15th annual AALS ADR Section Works in Progress Conference. This is one of the best ADR conferences
of the year, and we are thrilled to be hosting it again in Eugene! Please check out the conference website for more information and to … Continue reading 15th Annual [...]
This matter has already been covered by Florian Mueller on FOSS Patents and by Britain Eakin on Law360, but I thought I would weigh in as well. Last week Federal Trade Commission
Chair Lina Khan and Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter filed a public interest statement in Investigation No. [...]
HBO recently presented a great two-part documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream. He started as a conventional, clean-cut comic in the 1960s, and evolved into a counterculture
icon in the 1970s. He continued performing until shortly before his death in 2008. [...]
Based on a tweet by the ‘enfant terrible of tech’, Elon Musk, Michael Douglas recently discussed ‘Conflict of Laws of Freedom of Speech on Elon Musk’s Twitter’ on
this blog. In a new volume published by Mohr Siebeck, Anna Bizer adresses similar questions, from the point of view of German and European PIL. [...]
The American Law Institute is currently drafting the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Lea Brilmayer (an eminent scholar of conflict of laws and a professor at Yale
Law School) and Kim Roosevelt (the Reporter for the Restatement (Third) and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) recently engaged in a [...]
