Conflict of Laws

MARCH 17, 2025

At the end of each year I publish an article (in German) about the Conflict of Laws developments in Germany of the last twelve months, covering more or less the year 2024 and the last months of 2023. I thought it would be interesting for the readers of this blog to get an overview over those topics that seem to be most trending. 826 BGB ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 18, 2025

2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. Marine CDR project proponents could also be held liable for the harmful impacts of their projects under tort (i.e. The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 18, 2024

23, 2024), plaintiff filed a complaint alleging several tort claims, including assault, battery, and trespass. A third complaint filed more than one year after dismissal of the original complaint did not fall within the savings statute and was time barred. In Abdou v. Brown , No. 2023-01593-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 18, 2024

23, 2024), plaintiff filed a complaint alleging several tort claims, including assault, battery, and trespass. A third complaint filed more than one year after dismissal of the original complaint did not fall within the savings statute and was time barred. In Abdou v. Brown , No. 2023-01593-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 13, 2024

Ekaterina Aristova (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford) is the author of the ‘ Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in English Courts ’ (OUP 2024), which has just been published in the Oxford Private International Law series.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. 14-17, 2024, in Chicago. This release is scheduled for January 2024. Our goal is to serve 2-4 cases per month by the end of 2024, with the projected revenue of $2-4M/year. What problem do you solve?

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

He will also offer an Introduction to ‘International Comparative Law’ as a separate one-day event on 30 November 2024 (separate registration and fee required; see here ). Interested candidates are invited to complete the online application form by 18 October 2024. Full attendance is mandatory. All applications are subject to review.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

” The Legal Intelligencer has published this more Pennsylvania-centric version of Everett Catts’s article covering the 2023/2024 American Tort Reform Foundation’s Judicial Hellholes Report. Courts in Tie for No. The post “Recent Rulings, Verdicts Land Pa. Courts in Tie for No.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 7, 2025

67, 2024) has recently been released. 589) State Immunity – Un recognized States – jurisdiction – Place of Tort – Continuous Tort Tokyo District Court, Judgment, May 9, 2022 (p. On that note, the latest volume of the JYIL (Vol.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2025

It alleged that the directors were actively involved in the chairmans unlawful conduct and therefore liable in tort under Korean law, and GGS was vicariously liable for their actions. This is significant because the tort action in Indonesia was not based on the contract between the parties. [24] 1] [2024] SGCA(I) 8; [2024] 2 SLR 279.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 5, 2024

Symeonides, The Torts Chapter of the Third Conflicts Restatement: An Introduction, pp. 7–59, DOI: [link] This article presents the torts chapter of the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws, as approved by the American Law Institute in May 2023. Enjoy reading: Symeon C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A number of new state laws focused on geologic carbon storage have been enacted in 2024. At least seven states have passed amendments in 2024 related to property rights: Louisiana , Illinois , Alaska , Pennsylvania , Alabama , Colorado and Wyoming. Several states are stepping up to the plate.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 4, 2024

14, 2024), the Tennessee Supreme Court held that there is no tort for wrongful foreclosure in Tennessee. Plaintiff filed a complaint asserting several causes of action, but only appealed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment on the tort claim of wrongful foreclosure. Wilmington Trust, N.A. , 3d — (Tenn.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from the loss or miscarriage of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. The moratorium remained in effect until early 2023, with some protections continuing into 2024.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This series is based on the keynote speeches and panel discussions from the 2024 PAX Moot Half Day Conference, held on 26 April 2024 in Ljubljana. The Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen published its newest blog post series in early August.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this post, I focus on two particular issues: (1) the scope of privilege against being sued for defamation or other similar torts based upon statements made in a court proceeding; (2) the strong functionality doctrine that limits protection of trade dress on three-dimensional product design. Toyo Tire Corp. Atturo Tire Corporation , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Michael Smith brought tort claims against New Zealand’s seven largest GHG emitters, which are collectively responsible for one-third of all New Zealand GHG emissions. He argued the defendants’ activities amount to torts of public nuisance and negligence, and also raised a novel claim asserting that the defendants have a climate duty.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 19, 2024

Under the “exclusivity doctrine” in worker’s compensation law, an employee cannot sue his or her employer under tort law. 26, 2024), plaintiff worked as a sales representative for a hardware company. Instead, the exclusive remedy for the employee is under worker’s compensation law. In Coblentz v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 17, 2025

At the end of each year I publish an article (in German) about the Conflict of Laws developments in Germany of the last twelve months, covering more or less the year 2024 and the last months of 2023. I thought it would be interesting for the readers of this blog to get an overview over those topics that seem to be most trending. 826 BGB ).

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Law Prose

AUGUST 28, 2024

Rather more expansively, the newly issued 12th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary (2024) defines it as “the corrupted form of the Norman French language that arose in England after William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and that was used for several centuries as the primary language of the English legal system.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2024

1 Issue 1, 2024) was recently published by SAGE. Shall consumer contract and tort claims be subject to the same applicable law? The consumer choice of law rule and its interaction with the general contract choice of law and tort choice of law rule needs to be reexamined. Is choice of court agreement in consumer contracts valid?

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Starting in 2024, TR will begin adding AI-assisted research to Westlaw in markets outside the U.S., ” Requests for analytics, such as “Which law firm has the most torts cases in 2023 so far?” The feature will become generally available in the first quarter of 2024.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Here is the column: The fault lines for the 2024 elections are already taking shape with the two parties in diametrically opposed positions and there is no greater divide than over parental rights. American torts have long required consent in medical torts. That stark difference was no more evident than in a tweet from Rep.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 27, 2024

In a March notice to practitioners , the Chief Justice informed the profession that the Supreme Court Amendment Rules 2024 (WA ) ( Amendment Rules ) were published on the WA legislation website on 26 March 2024. The changes will take effect on 9 April 2024.

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Patently O

JUNE 23, 2024

— (June 20, 2024), a case focusing on the constitutionality of the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT). 1221 (2024) (Thomas, J., — (June 21, 2024), Justice Thomas complained that “At argument, the Government invented yet another position.” — (June 20, 2024) (Gorsuch, J., June 14, 2024).

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Some litigation practice areas include: Antitrust Appeals Aviation Bankruptcy Corporate & Securities E-discovery Environmental Family Law Insurance Defense Intellectual Property Labor and Employment Medical Malpractice Personal Injury Products Liability Toxic Torts Each specialty area has its own set of skills that are particular to that area.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Sweet & Maxwell is offering a 15% discount on all orders of the book until January 31 st 2024. Offer valid from 22nd December to 31 st January 2024. The interaction between domestic private law in Member States and England, and law applicable to contract and torts is an underlying theme that is explored well in the book.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 1, 2024

Candidate in Law, Peking University Law School) The ‘Global Value Chains and Transnational Private Law’ workshop was successfully held at Edinburgh Law School in a hybrid format from June 23 to 25, 2024. This project is funded by the Law Schools Global League (LSGL) , convened by Prof. Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (Edinburgh Law School) and Prof.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 29, 2023

The rule therefore has to be reformed with regard to those appeals but will remain in force until the legislator remedies those defects, but not later than June 30, 2024. While the decision is formally a procedural one, its most striking passages address substantive tort law. In so far, Art. 6 ss 1 Basic Law.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

More precisely Article 7 (2) of the Brussels Ia Regulation had to be interpreted, according to which a person domiciled in a Member State may be sued in another Member State, ‘in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict, in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or may occur’.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Further, the new CPL introduces “the place of torts committed within the territory of China” as a new connecting factor for jurisdiction. It is worth noting that the Law on Immunity of Foreign States was promulgated on September 1, 2023, and will be implemented from January 1, 2024.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 3, 2024

With great sadness did we receive notice that Erik Jayme passed away on 1 May 2024, shortly before his 90 th birthday on 8 June. Everyone in the CoL and PIL world is familiar with and is probably admiring his outstanding and often path-breaking work as a global scholar.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

The court also denied the motion by Alabama and 18 other states to bring a case against California and four other states directly in the Supreme Court to block a series of lawsuits against fossil fuel producers, saying that those suits impermissibly sought to dictate interstate energy policy through the aggressive use of state-law tort suits.

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Patently O

JANUARY 16, 2024

by Dennis Crouch A California Court of Appeals issued a product liability decision in early 2024 that raises interesting questions about the role of both carrots and sticks in innovation policy. A165558, 2024 WL 94462 (Cal. 9, 2024) Read It Here. Gilead Tenofovir Cases , No.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Parental rights are becoming one of the defining issues for 2024. American torts have long required consent in torts. It may also constitute political malpractice as both parties now careen toward the 2024 elections. Eric Swalwell (D., In other words, “what is missing here” is that Rep.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

When the law enters into force on January 1, 2024, China will join those countries—a clear majority—that have adopted the restrictive theory of foreign state immunity. The NPC Standing Committee also helpfully changed Article 9’s territorial tort exception to clarify when that exception applies.

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