JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

.” The formal arrest comes six months after Lei was first taken into custody under controversial Chinese detention laws. Cheng was detained by Chinese authorities in August under Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), provided for by China’s Criminal Procedure Law.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

—What Role has Private International Law Played? By Zhengxin Huo, Professor of Law, China University of Polit’l Science and Law; Associate Member of International Academy of Comparative Law; Observer of the UNESCO 1970 Convention. Choice of Law Issue: Lex Rei Sitae = Lex Furti ? Email: zhengxinh@cupl.edu.cn.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

o The federal government, finance, and insurance sectors pay the most, with a median income above $84,000 per year. o Limited ceiling – you very likely never will be the boss of a law firm if you do not have a law degree. o 80% of paralegals and legal assistants earn between $32-82,000. By Aline Martin O’Brien!

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

o The federal government, finance, and insurance sectors pay the most, with a median income above $84,000 per year. o Limited ceiling – you very likely never will be the boss of a law firm if you do not have a law degree. o 80% of paralegals and legal assistants earn between $32-82,000. By Aline Martin O’Brien!

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A protest began, led by opposition parties seeking a statement from the government. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla invoked rules 373, 374 and 374A of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabah , instructing marshals to evict the protesting lawmakers. Wednesday, the Los Sabha passed some of these criminal reform laws.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On 9 August 2021, after discovering the defendant’s property clues, TYM filed an application for recognition and enforcement of the Chinese judgment with the Supreme Court of NSW pursuant to Australia’s common law principles. Applicable Law to Limitation Period for Enforcement. In TYM v Ms.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Written by Wenliang Zhang (Associate Professor at Renmin University of China Law School), Haoxiang Ruan (PhD Candidate at Renmin University of China Law School), and William S. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law). Dodge (the John D.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The Supreme Court of India alone has around 70,000 pending cases and the reason for the same is the wide power of judicial review given to High Courts as well as the Supreme Court, which turns them more into courts of appeal (deciding the rights of litigants) than actual constitutional courts (laying down the law).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Cornell), Bachelor of Laws (ZUEL). * The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an important principle in civil procedure laws and frequently applied by courts in many legal systems, especially those of common law countries.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 6, 2022

On 23 June 2022, the Lisbon Guidelines on Privacy , drawn up by the ILA Committee on the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law , were formally endorsed by the International Law Association at the 80th ILA Biennial Conference, hosted in Lisbon (Portugal). Burkhard Hess chaired the Committee, and Prof.

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LexForti

JANUARY 29, 2022

This post has been authored by Mridul Sinha, who is associated to Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Before putting forward both the aspects of Ought Law, at first we ‘ought’ to be clear in the conception regarding what is Is Law and ‘Ought’ Law. Mridul Sinha. Introduction.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Likewise, such a crisis involves risk regulation and, in the current case, also plague governance —involving intense emergency regulative changes made by different nation-states that might both reveal and challenge deeply shared norms regarding familial rights and national interests. Yuko Nishitani, Kyoto Univiertys Law School.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 27, 2022

Mariottini (Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law), The Singapore Convention on International Mediated Settlement Agreements: A New Status for Party Autonomy in the Non-Adjudicative Process. Cristina M. Observatory on Legislation and Regulations.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2021

Readers of this blog may be interested in the book (in Chinese) entitled, The Development and Perfection of Chinese Inter-Regional Conflict of Laws: From the Perspective of the Achievements of Hague Conference on Private International Law. The development of Chinese inter-regional conflict of laws and HCCH achievements, 2.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

The news about the Supreme Peoples Court of the Peoples Republic of China issuing the Notice on Procedural Matters Related to Civil Cases Involving Foreign State Immunit y has been previously reported on this blog. That law has been in force since the beginning of 2024. The foreign government has three months to file a defense.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Kostin, Senior Research Fellow at the Private Law Research Centre (Moscow, Russia) and counsel atAvangard law firm. and Valeria Rzyanina, junior associate, Avangard Law Firm. This is a synopsis of an article published in the Herald of Civil Procedure Law Journal N 1/2021 in Russian). 40-39791 / 2018.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 27, 2024

Effectively, this is a context specific harmonised approach to developing substantive contract law rules to regulate the effectiveness of choice of court agreements. In similar vein, the CJEU has developed its case law as to when a third party may be deemed to be bound by or derive benefit from a choice of court agreement.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 16, 2022

Legal and Political Economics in Comparative Perspective: the Case of Corporate Law. Hardly another area of the law has seen as much interest in comparative analysis as corporate law, in particular the publicly traded corporation. 327–363, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2022-0029. Legal details remained largely under the radar.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

Though decided almost four months ago, the case merits discussion of several private international law aspects that will perhaps become one of the milestones in the broader context of liability of parent companies for the actions of their foreign-based subsidiaries. Application of (substantive) Nigerian law. Substantive law.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 1, 2024

By Ananya Bhargava, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, India. The ADA included an Arbitration clause with New Delhi as the venue of arbitration and the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 declared as the governing law.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 27, 2023

Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. In December 2022, Chinese lawmakers published a draft law on foreign state immunity , an English translation of which is now available. In a prior post , I looked at the draft law’s provisions on immunity from suit.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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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Conflict of Laws

MAY 20, 2024

The Directive will apply to big EU companies (generally those with more than 1,000 employees and a worldwide turnover of more than EUR 450 000 000) but also to companies established under the law of a third country that meet the Directive’s criteria (Article 2 CSDDD). As was mentioned above, the CSDDD is mostly silent on PIL.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 27, 2021

(This post is provided by Zeyu Huang, who is an associate of Hui Zhong Law Firm based in Shenzhen. degree from the Renmin University of China Law School. at the Faculty of Law in University of Macau. Mr. Jie Shi, the legal intern at the Hui Zhong Law Firm Shenzhen Office, made contributions to the post.).

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 3, 2025

Thomale: Ipso facto clauses in cross-border cases (German) Ipso facto clauses or bankruptcy clauses present a controversial problem to both contract law and insolvency law. While the parties had chosen Dutch law to be applicable to the contract, the court held that the German provision was applicable in view of Art.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Encyclopedia of Private International Law – Vol. Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World (2007) 35). This was reaffirmed in [……] in [the new] Article 222 of the Civil Procedure Law issued by Federal Decree-Law No. Therefore, the ruling misapplied the law and should be overturned.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Wagner: European Conflict of Law 2024: Business as usual? It also refers to the laws enacted at the national level in Germany as a result of new European instruments. In addition, the article also looks at current projects and the latest developments at the Hague Conference of Private International Law. Budzikiewicz/H.-P.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 5, 2021

Choice of law by the testator is particularly important and a notary should point not only at the present situation, but also at possible developments in the future. The position of the surviving spouse under § 1371 BGB in German law has become a highly debated subject and here the aspect of free movement of persons is highlighted.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2021

It features: Christian Kohler , Honorary Professor at the University of Saarland, Limiting European Integration through Constitutional Law? Recent Decisions of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and their Impact on Private International Law (in English).

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Less dealt with is the issue of selecting an appropriate ground for jurisdiction, which is not governed by the mentioned Regulation. Ilaria Viarengo , Professor at the University Milan, The Coordination of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Proceedings Related to Economic Aspects of Family Law.

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LettersBlogatory

OCTOBER 2, 2021

One thing I have learned in many years of writing about law cases that are politically or morally important to people is that there really is no market on social media for writing about them as law cases. No one seems that interested in treating the law case as a law case.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 29, 2021

German civil procedural law allows for video hearings under section 128a (1) German Code of Civil Procedure.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2024

The decision presented here raises a number of fundamental questions related to the proper understanding of foreign legal concepts and procedures and how they should be integrated within the framework of domestic law. This is more so], especially since the submitted documents on the Canadian civil procedure law and the Regulation No.

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