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Lex & Forum, Volume 4/2022 – A special on cross border family law

Conflict of Laws

The free movement of people within the European judicial space and the integration of third-country nationals has created a considerable number of multinational family structures, that give rise to a significant number of legal disputes, leading to complex conflict of law issues.

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Lex & Forum: Third issue – A special on the limits of private autonomy in the EU

Conflict of Laws

The central topic of the present issue (Focus) is further elaborated by the contributions of Professor Spyros Tsantinis on the importance of private autonomy in European and international procedural law, and of Dr. Konstantinos Voulgarakis on the protection mechanisms in the case of choice of court agreements.

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Report of the Oxford Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws”

Conflict of Laws

On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws was convened at St Hildas College, Oxford. This led him to discuss autonomous characterisation and functional comparative law approaches as the third direction through the work of Scipione Gemma and the changed views of Franz Kahn.

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Third Issue for Journal of Private International Law for 2022

Conflict of Laws

The third issue for the Journal of Private International Law for 2022 was published today. This article will consider how the law applicable to the proprietary issues of crypto-assets should be determined. Indonesian civil procedure law recognises choice of court agreements made by contracting parties.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

On applicable law for environmental pollution (Article 7 Rome II), a pinnacle of business and human rights as well as climate change litigation. The European Union rules on the law that applies to liability for environmental damage, are an outlier in the private international law agenda. van Calster: Lex ecologia.

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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

Conflict of Laws

Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Gruber: A plea against ex post-adaptation of spousal inheritance rights Adaptation is recognized as a tool to eliminate the lack of coordination between the provisions of substantive law derived from different legal systems. However, in this article, the author takes the opposite view. 5 Brussels Ia Regulation and Art.