I. Introduction Reciprocity is probably one of the most discussed requirements in the field of the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. While its legitimacy appears
to be on the wane (see Béligh Elbalti, “Reciprocity and the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: A Lot of Bark but Not Much Bite,” 13 JPIL 1 (2017) [...]
The issue of “foreign law” and its application, long considered essential to the functioning of private international law (PIL), continues to trigger interesting discussions
and debates. [...]
A symposium on “Judicial Independence and Liberal Democracy Under Threat: The Challenge of Implementing the ELI Mt Scopus Standards on Judicial Independence” will take
place from 10 to 12 December 2025 at the University of Nicosia. The event is organised by the Procedural Law Unit in cooperation with the International Association [...]
By Marketa Trimble, Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Co-Director of the IP Law Concentration, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas [...]
Yesterday the interwebs sent me a link to an interesting essay by David Hoffman, a contracts scholar at Penn who wrote an article in the aughts provocatively titled The Best
Puffery Article Ever. When discussing puffing in my Negotiation class, I use the title to provide a fun example. Nevertheless, that’s as far the paper … Continue [...]
Tommaso Alba, Christian Helmers, and Brian J. Love have posted a paper on ssrn titled A Tale of Trolls and Fees: The Role of Fee-Shifting in Patent Litigation. Here is
a link to the paper, and here is the abstract: [...]
A New York Times article, Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?, grabbed my attention because it identifies many of my frustrations in using AI to help me write. It also supports
an argument in my article, Solving Professors’ Dilemmas about Prohibiting or Promoting Student AI Use, that faculty – not to mention lawyers’ supervisors … [...]
Registration is open for the book launch celebrating the publication of The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: A Commentary, to be held in hybrid format in The
Hague on 11 December 2025 from 1.30 p.m. to 4.45 p.m. (CET). The book launch will coincide with the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the 2005 Choice of [...]
The fourth issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2025 has recently been published. It contains the following articles, cases notes and book review.
Michael Howard, “The True History of the Origin of the Mareva Injunction or Freezing Order” [...]
On Friday, December 5, 2025, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 11:00 a.m. – 12:30
p.m. (CEST). Dr. Béligh Elbalti (Osaka University) will speak, in English, about the topic [...]
