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Giustizia consensuale No 2/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Un’introduzione in chiave comparata ( Mechanisms of consensual justice in Brazilian procedural law. Coffee (Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.) Kucinski (International family law expert based in Washington, D.C.), and Melissa A.

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

Conflict of Laws

Building on the comments, the present article authored by the members of the Marburg Group focuses on the main points of critique and considers the present state of discussion on the proposed Regulation. 1 Besides, it should also be associated with a more extensive and, in consequence, time-consuming reform of procedural law.

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

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Professor Martin Gebauer (University of Tbingen) explored three main themes: striking parallels in time and content, strong contrasts, and finally the tensions in characterisation. Langille argued for an alternative distinction between substance and procedure based on the nature of private rights.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

The decision of the OLG München (Higher Regional Court of Munich) regarding a brokerage contract shows that it is not always possible to determine the place of main performance. Hau: International jurisdiction based on nationality in European family law. 650/2012 defines the boundary between succession law and procedure.

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

Conflict of Laws

Localising the place of damage in the context of capital investment cases is a perennial problem both under national and European civil procedural law. 167 of the Civil Procedure Code (ZPO) aims to relieve the parties of the risk accruing to them through late official notification of legal action over which they have no control.

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Conference Report from Luxemburg: On the Brussels Ibis Reform

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On 9 September 2022, the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law Luxembourg hosted a conference on the Brussels Ibis Reform, in collaboration with the KU Leuven and the EAPIL. The Brussels Ibis Regulation is certainly the fundamental reference-instrument of cross-border judicial cooperation in civil matters within the European Union.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 6/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Magnus: A new Private International Law and new Procedural Rules for Adoptions in Germany. As a result of two recent reforms the German private international and procedural laws applicable to adoptions have changed quite substantively. Frantzen: Norwegian International Law of Inheritance. 17 CPC 1996.