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Austria Supreme Court refers Facebook data collection questions to ECJ

JURIST

The questions arose in a civil case filed by Maximilian Schrems , an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist, who alleges that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Implied Jurisdiction Agreements in International Commercial Contracts

Conflict of Laws

In our latest article , published in the 2023 edition of the Journal of Private International Law , vol. Therefore, our paper provides the first comparative global perspective of the enforcement of implied jurisdiction in international contracts. Globally, the interrelationship between jurisdiction and choice of law is acknowledged.

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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Chinese Case Law Collection Adds to the CISG’s Jurisconsultorium: Reflections on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and its Domestic Implementations

Conflict of Laws

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (‘ CISG ’), currently adopted by 95 States, is a treaty intended to harmonise the laws governing cross-border goods trade: and thereby promote trade itself. Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash Business School.

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Review of Kazuaki Nishioka, Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023, 327 pp, hb £117

Conflict of Laws

The book examines 15 Asian jurisdictions, representing a variety of legal systems, including civil law (China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand), common law (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, and India), and mixed jurisdictions (Philippines and Sri Lanka).

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The Chinese villages win a lawsuit in China to repatriate a Mummified Buddha Statue hold by a Dutch Collector —What Role has Private International Law Played?

Conflict of Laws

6] Lawyers of both sides were present both at the hearings and the pronouncement of the judgement. Given the importance of some of such cases, the CPL empowers Chinese courts the jurisdiction over actions involving contract disputes or disputes over property rights against a non-resident defendant if certain conditions are satisfied.

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Giustizia consensuale No 1/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

These contracts – recurrently used by the Italian lawmaker, also for the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) for strategic interventions, especially in the area of territorial cohesion – allow the Administrations involved to define their respective spheres of intervention while also preventing possible conflicts between them.

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