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“Other Appropriate Connections”: China’s Newly Adopted Jurisdiction Ground

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Written by Jidong Lin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law Background China’s newly amended Civil Procedure Law (“CPL 2024”), which came into effect on 1 January 2024, introduces several distinct and innovative changes. 10] However, the precise extent required remains to be determined.

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Overview of the 2023 Amendments to Chinese Civil Procedure Law

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Written by NIE Yuxin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law 1. Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. Notably, 19 changes deal with the special provisions on cross-border procedures. Jurisdiction 2.1 Jurisdiction 2.1

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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?

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—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. Email: zhengxinh@cupl.edu.cn. Summary of Facts.

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

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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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Has the Battle Just Begun for Collective Action against Big Tech Companies?

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Julia H örnle, Professor of Internet Law, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London [1]. By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6]

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

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

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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.