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Report on the 2024 Asia-Pacific Colloquium of the Journal of Private International Law (JPIL)

Conflict of Laws

On 56 December 2024, 18 private international lawyers from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore came together at the University of Melbourne for the 2024 Asia-Pacific Colloquium of the Journal of Private International Law (JPIL). Is internationalisation of private international law always achievable or desirable?

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6 Ways to Expand Your Paralegal Education

Paralegal Bootcamp

They wish to dive into the depths in order to broaden their legal education, deepen their understanding, diversify their skills, and learn new areas of the law. For instance, commercial litigation paralegals can benefit from CLEs explaining the methods of determining the appropriate type of business organization or drafting contracts.

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3rd Postgraduate Law Conference at the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance

Conflict of Laws

The 3 rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law is now open for registration. The theme is New Dimensions in Private International Law and the conference will take place online on 6 June 2025 in the morning.

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Extension of deadline (to 10 January 2025) for Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development and Policy on the theme, “Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Africa”

Conflict of Laws

This is an area with limited scholarship in Africa, as most research has traditionally emphasized substantive laws, often neglecting the critical role of private international law in sustainable development. Interested researchers should consider themes such as the ones explored in Michaels/Ruiz Abou-Nigm/Van Loon (eds.)

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

Attorney at Work

“Editorial excellence has long been at the heart of Westlaw,“ said Leann Blanchfield, head of Primary Law, Editorial, Thomson Reuters. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.” KeyCite Cited With.

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AAPrIL’s June online seminar: The Law of the Arbitration Agreement – Australasian Perspectives

Conflict of Laws

Parties to international commercial contracts usually address the first two of these issues, but are often silent as to the law of the arbitration agreement. He practisesin civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on cross-border disputes. He is co-author of the text The Conflict of Laws in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2020).

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Cybersecurity: A Lawyer’s Ethical Duty to Read the News

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Sharon Nelson and John Simek discuss this topic with Lucian Pera to learn more about lawyers’ ethical responsibilities for technology and cybersecurity competence and why failures could result in a lawyer facing disciplinary action. The post Cybersecurity: A Lawyer’s Ethical Duty to Read the News appeared first on Law Technology Today.