I am biased.  I am a huge fan of Michelle Obama. I recently watched the film Becoming on Netflix, which revolves around her book tour for her book of the same name.  The

film includes some stories from the book but mostly it shows her interactions with people on the book tour.  It also includes … Continue reading Becoming – Again [...]

I mentioned last month that I had posted a new paper on ssrn titled Damages for Noneconomic Harm in Intellectual Property Law, 62 Hastings L.J. __ (forthcoming 2021).  Below

is a link to a (slightly revised) version of the paper, along with the abstract.  I'd also like to note a review of the paper by Roya Ghafele, published this morning [...]

Written by Oliver Dörr, University of Osnabrück Note: This blogpost is part of a series on „Corporate social responsibility and international law“ that presents the main

findings of the contributions published in August Reinisch, Stephan Hobe, Eva-Maria Kieninger & Anne Peters (eds), Unternehmensverantwortung und Internationales Recht, [...]

From F. Peter Phillips: New York Law School’s ADR Skills Program invites you to join… THE WEDNESDAY LUNCH SERIES: CONVERSATIONS in CONFLICT RESOLUTION Beginning May 20

and for every two weeks thereafter, New York Law School will offer informal and provocative conversations with interesting leaders in the field of conflict avoidance, [...]

Gathering (or rather e-gathering) professors and researchers from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal, a series of webinars is taking place from today until

22 May, under the general topic of PIL and Covid-19: Mobility, Commerce and Challenges in the Global Order. [...]

I'm a little dilatory in reporting on this decision, which was handed down last June.  Hereis a link to the Judgment of June 4, 2019, X ZB 2/19 (BGH); the opinion is also

published at pp. 400-05 of the September 2019 issue of  Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälten.  The patent owner, which markets a drug under the brand name [...]

The first issue of 2020 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP, published by CEDAM) was just released. It features: Antonietta Di Blase, Professor

at the University of Roma Tre, Sull’interpretazione delle convenzioni e delle norme dell’Unione europea in materia di diritto internazionale privato (‘On the [...]

The most recent issue of the Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (German Journal of Comparative Law; Vol. 119 [2020], No.1) contains the following articles: Ahmad

Natour, Hebrew University, and Talia Einhorn, Ariel University (Israel): The Application of Islamic Law in Israel – Issues of Filiation between Secular and Religious [...]

Written by Tobias Lutzi, University of Cologne Written b y Tobias Lutzi, University of Cologne One of the biggest winners of the current pandemic (other than toilet paper producers,

conspiracy theorists, and the climate) seems to be the former Silicon Valley startup Zoom, whose videoconferencing solutions have seen its number of daily users increase [...]