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Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws” at Oxford, 20–21 March 2025

Conflict of Laws

The conference, taking place at St Hilda’s College, will be organised as a round-table discussion, bringing together legal scholars and practitioners from a range of jurisdictions, covering both Common Law and Civil Law traditions, in order to establish a common understanding of the practices and challenges regarding characterisation.

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Out now: The Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 12 (2024), Issue 1

Conflict of Laws

Arguably, it is time to consider how private international law (or conflict of laws) should develop in Asia and what kind of opportunity it can engender, considering that private international law has the potential to promote economic and legal cooperation without unifying substantive law.

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“Other Appropriate Connections”: China’s Newly Adopted Jurisdiction Ground

Conflict of Laws

Written by Jidong Lin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law Background China’s newly amended Civil Procedure Law (“CPL 2024”), which came into effect on 1 January 2024, introduces several distinct and innovative changes.

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The Development of forum non conveniens in the Chinese Law and Practice

Conflict of Laws

Cornell), Bachelor of Laws (ZUEL). * The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an important principle in civil procedure laws and frequently applied by courts in many legal systems, especially those of common law countries. Such a provision on forum non conveniens caused four problems in practice.

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. The Supreme Court’s 7 February 2024 decision is a preliminary one. 7, 2024) [link].

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RabelsZ: New issue alert

Conflict of Laws

Issue 3 of RabelsZ 2024 has just been released. 425–493, [link] One component of the European Green Deal is the implementation of a harmonized supply chain law in the form of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). The Law of 1 September 2023 as an Instrument for the Shaping of Customary International Law), pp.

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Promulgation of the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of International Treaties and International Practices in the Trial of Foreign-related Civil and Commercial Cases

Conflict of Laws

The Interpretations was adopted by the Trial Committee of the Supreme People’s Court at its 1908th meeting on December 5, 2023, which will come into force on January 1, 2024. International treaties that have not yet entered into force for China cannot be used as a legal basis for the people’s courts to make decisions.

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