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Job Opportunity – Postdoctorand in Transnational Family Law (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law)

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The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne) is looking for a Postdoctorand in transnational family law (80%). The announcement can be found here.

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Out Now: Alexander DJ Critchley, The Application of Foreign Law in the British and German Courts

Conflict of Laws

Alexander DJ Critchley has added an enriching installment to Hart’s renowned Studies in Private International Law Series entitled “The Application of Foreign Law in the British and German Courts” The author has extensive experience as solicitor in Scots law with a specialisation in family law.

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How to become a paralegal if you have a law degree

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Completing a degree would have given you a great foundation knowledge of academic law but in order to be a professional paralegal, you should learn about practice and procedure. An encounter with a family law Solicitor prompted Kimberley to study ILSPA’s Legal Secretaries Diploma course.

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In Memoriam Erik Jayme (1934-2024)

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In 1961, at the age of 27, Erik Jayme delivered his doctoral thesis on „Spannungen bei der Anwendung italienischen Familienrechts durch deutsche Gerichte“ (“Tension in the application of Italian family law by German courts“). [1]

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

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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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Giustizia consensuale No 2/2023: Abstracts

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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) 4/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

The author analyses the background of the decision and discusses its consequences for the long-standing conflict of procedural laws ( Justizkonflikt) between the United States and Germany. Rüsing: Dialogue International Family Law on April 28 and 29, 2023, Münster The Court answered this question in the affirmative.

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