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Amendment of Chinese Civil Procedure Law Concerning Foreign Affairs

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Fourthly, this revision adds the provision of “[i]f the recipient is a foreign legal person or any other organization, and its legal representative or principal person in charge is within the territory of the People’s Republic of China, documents are served on its legal representative or principal person in charge”.

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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law is recruiting!

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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law is currently recruiting new members for its team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law led by Prof. Your tasks.

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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. The latest amendments to the Civil Procedure Law in 2023, referred to as the new CPL, involve 26 amendments, including 14 modified articles and 15 new additions.

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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law is recruiting!

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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law is currently recruiting. A fully-funded position as Research Fellow (PhD candidate) for the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law, led by Prof.

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China adopts foreign national immunity law that allows foreign states to be sued domestically

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On this occasion, legislators decided to adopt the revised Administrative Review Law, amend the Civil Procedure Law and adopt the law on foreign national immunity. The second-instance civil procedural law project enhances provisions related to geographic jurisdiction of cases involving foreigners.

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New York judge sets April 15 start date for Trump in falsified business records case

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The trial was originally scheduled to proceed on March 25, but the prosecution disclosed almost 100,000 of discovery shortly before the scheduled start date, which caused Trump’s legal counsel to petition the court for more time to prepare. There was then a series of filings from both the prosecution and Trump’s legal counsel.

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Relevance of Indian Limitation Law vis-à-vis Foreign-seated International Arbitration With Indian Law As The Applicable Substantive Law

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The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration.

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