Posted for the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law: Today, the HCCH finalised the text for a new multilateral treaty: the 2019 HCCH Convention
on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters. [...]
It's a trademark case, but it raises an important policy question for any body of law that permits courts to award the defendant's profits as a remedy for infringement. The
case is Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., Case No. 18-1233 (U.S. June 28, 2019). The question presented is "Whether, under Section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 [...]
Adding to the list of recent German publications on Private International Law, the 3rd edition of Volume VI of the German NomosKommentar BGB has just been published. The book
edited by Heinz-Peter Mansel (University of Cologne) and Rainer Hüßtege (Higher Regional Court of Munich) offers detailed commentary on the Rome I, II, and III [...]
On 8 July 2019, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law will host the third conference organized in the framework of the ILA Committee on the Protection of Privacy
in Private International and Procedural Law, chaired by Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Burkhard Hess. [...]
I just received word that Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus (Brad Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love & Norman V. Siebrasse eds., Cambridge
Univ. Press 2019), is now available in print. I understand that the book also will available on an open-access basis shortly. Here is CUP's webpage for the book, [...]
For those of you who read German it is great news that volume 2 of the leading German textbook on Private International Law, ‘Internationales Privatrecht’ by Christian
von Bar has just been published in a second edition, now authored by Peter Mankowski. [...]
In July 2018, Professors Claudia Schubert (then University of Bochum, now Hamburg), Yuanshi Bu and Jan von Hein (both University of Freiburg) organised a comparative, Chinese-German
symposium on the recent codification of the general principles of Chinese private law and their implications for freedom of contract (including choice of law) in [...]
The New York Times “smarter living” column has an interesting piece about letting go of grudges and forgiving others. It cites research about the benefits of doing so.
A 2006 study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology as part of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, suggested that “skills-based forgiveness training may [...]
Yesterday the Council of the European Union adopted the Council regulation on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters
of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast) (Brussels IIa regulation). [...]
The Institute for International Business Law of the University of Münster (Germany) will be hosting a conference on “Kollisionsrecht 4.0 – Künstliche Intelligenz, smart
contracts und Bitcoins als Herausforderungen für das Internationale Privatrecht” on 8 November 2019 in Münster (Germany). [...]
