On 24 and 25 October, the 3rd IBA Litigation Committee Conference on Private International Law will take place in Palazzo Turati, Milan, Italy. It will deal with Brexit,
International Commercial Courts and Sanctions. More information are available on the IBA conference website. [...]
On Monday, October 21, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will visit the University of Minnesota Law School, and will give the 2019 Stein Lecture later that afternoon at
the Northrop Auditorium. I look forward to hearing her speak. Regarding IP matters specifically, Justice Kagan has authored majority opinions in three patent-related [...]
This second part in the Theory of Change symposium includes three pieces about legal education and two pieces about dispute resolution practice. Rebekah Gordon suggests ways
that law schools can engage students’ interest in ADR. Debra Berman argues that law schools should provide more realistic instruction about ADR by increasingly [...]
With judgment of 17 October 2019 (III ZR 42/19) the German Federal Supreme Court held that a contracting party may be entitled to compensation for the costs incurred through
the violation of a choice of court agreement. The basic facts and the main reasoning of the Court are summarized below. The full press release (in German) is available [...]
On 3rd October, the amendments to the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (“REFJA”) came into force. REFJA is based on the UK Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal
Enforcement) Act 1933, but in this recent round of amendments has deviated in some significant ways from the 1933 Act. [...]
The research on the cross-border collection of debts (in particular through the unified procedures in the EU) in the EC²BE project has produced interesting results. Here is
a summary of the Belgian results. For those who want to know more, don’t forget to enrol to our final conference, which will address the matter in various EU States. [...]
The Washington Post published an account of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s career as a law professor, Elizabeth Warren Faced Sexism, Shed a Husband and Found Her Voice Teaching
Law in Houston, which you might find interesting regardless of your views about her politics. [...]
Forwarding in case anyone is interested. ————– The Nominating Committee for the AALS Balance in Legal Education Section is requesting nominations to serve as Executive
Committee Board Member beginning January 1, 2020. We’d love to have your nomination! The Balance in Legal Education Section seeks to make law school a more [...]
As previously noted, on Friday of this week I will be participating in an event titled "OxFirst's Fourth IP and Competition Forum: Globalisation And FRAND: Coming to Grips
With The Interplay of IP & Competition Law," to be held at St. Cross College, Oxford. (Further details here.) In this regard, forum organizer Professor Roya Ghafele [...]
The latest issue of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, an open-access online journal focusing on private international law, is out. It can be downloaded here. The fifty
papers included in this issue (written in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian) address a broad range of topics, including the recognition of registered [...]
