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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

After an unsuccessful negotiation, the Committee of Yunchun Village and the Committee Dongpu Village sued Van Overeem to demand the statue’s return both in Fujian Province of China and in Amsterdam of the Netherlands at the end of 2015, [2] fearing that a statute of limitation might bar their case.

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Out now: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 121 (2022) No. 1

Conflict of Laws

Thereafter, the present essay analyses the term “network”, using the classic means of interpretation of statutes and secondary European law in light of the jurisprudence of the ECJ (IV.). Thus, various legal problems in these fields of law could be solved. Against this backdrop, the application of § 319b will be examined (V.).

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Legalities of Third-Party Funding in India: The Road Ahead

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India does not recognize Classic third-party funding agreements, although such agreements are not expressly prohibited by India, as there are no precedents or Statutes to address this concern. Indian Arbitration law does not contain any provision related to TPF.

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Second edition of The Hague Academy of International Law’s Advanced Course in Hong Kong on “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters: Judgments Convention”

Conflict of Laws

10), which according to Franzina was designed not primarily with civil law systems in mind, but rather for common law jurisdictions, who were assumed to have difficulties in asserting the public policy exception (Art. 279 Civil Procedure Law), including disputes concerning some specific Sino-foreign joint venture contracts.