Since the summer, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute has hosted monthly virtual workshops on current research in private international law. That series, so far held in German,
has proven very successful, with sometimes more than 1oo participants. [...]
I've taken a couple of weeks off of blogging--and reading blogs--so it was only last night that I learned about the recent developments in the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court
and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas involving Ericsson and Samsung. If I understand correctly, based on posts I have now read by Mark [...]
JM Scherpe and E Bargelli have just published an edited book titled: “The Interaction between Family Law, Succession Law and Private International Law” with Intersentia.
The publisher’s blurb reads as follows: [...]
Written by Andrew Dickinson (Fellow, St Catherine’s College and Professor of Law, University of Oxford) The belated conclusion of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
did not dampen the impact of the UK’s departure from the European Union on judicial co-operation in civil matters between the UK’s three legal systems and those [...]
Symeon Symeonides, without doubt the doyen of US conflict of laws, just published what he says is the last of his annual surveys of American Choice of Law. (The series will
be continued by John F. Coyle, William S. Dodge, and Aaron D. Simowitz, suggesting it takes three of our most eminent scholars to replace Symeonides.) [...]
MF Moscati, M Palmer, and M Roberts just published a book titled “Comparative Dispute Resolution” with Edward Elgar. The blurb reads as follows: Comparative Dispute Resolution
offers an original, wide-ranging, and invaluable corpus of chapters on dispute resolution. [...]
The latest amendments to the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Arbitration Rules enter into force today, providing for a restyling to the 2012 rules (as earlier
amended in 2017). The restyling aims to fine-tune the current rules by increasing flexibility, efficiency and transparency of the ICC arbitrations and taking in the [...]
Membership On 4 December 2020, Mongolia was issued with a certificate confirming an affirmative vote in favour of its admission as a Member of the HCCH, following a six-month
voting period which ended on 3 December 2020. Mongolia has now been invited to deposit an instrument of acceptance of the HCCH Statute to become a Member of the HCCH. [...]
Imagine that you just stared into the neuralyzer in Men in Black. It wiped out all your memory of the traditional bundled of models of mediation and negotiation. You know
– facilitative and evaluative mediation, interest-based and positional negotiation, etc. [...]
Four social scientists who study empathy and political division think so. Take a look at their piece in the Washington Post, Our Divided Times Are an Opportunity for Empathy.
Really. To access the article, click on the title of this post. [...]
