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Overview of the 2023 Amendments to Chinese Civil Procedure Law

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Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. Since then, it had undergone four revisions in 2007, 2012, 2017, and 2021. Jurisdiction 2.1

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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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A Major Amendment to Provisions on Foreign-Related Civil Procedures Is Planned in China

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Written by NIE Yuxin and LIU Chang, Wuhan University Institute of International Law. The present Civil Procedure Law of China (hereinafter “CPL”) was enacted in 1990 and has been amended four times. All amendments made no substantive adjustments to the foreign-related civil procedure proceedings. Background. 276, para.

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There and Back Again? – The unexpected journey of EU-UK Judicial Cooperation finally leads to The Hague

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by Achim Czubaiko, Research Fellow („Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter“) and PhD Candidate, supported by the German Scholarship Foundation, Institute for German and International Civil Procedural Law, University of Bonn. Union Jack and European Union flag 2012 © Dave Kellam (CC BY-SA 2.0 Brussels Ibis, Rome I-II etc.),

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The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Nor do we want to add to the lively discussion on the choice-of-law- aspects regarding civil liability (see, amongst others, van Calster , Ho-Dac , Dias and, before the Proposal, Rühl ).

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

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For the law of state immunity, this move is particularly significant because China had been the most important adherent to the rival, absolute theory of foreign state immunity. In two prior posts ( here and here ), I discussed a draft of the FSIL (English translation here ). Like the U.N. This provision also follows the U.N.

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

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Nitschmann: The consequences of Brexit on Civil Judicial Cooperation between Germany and the United Kingdom The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has far-reaching consequences for international civil procedure law. 57 Austrian Code of Civil Procedure. 5 Brussels Ia Regulation and Art. A reshaping of Art.