Patently O

MAY 10, 2022

Claim preclusion and issue preclusion are conceptually difficult, but the Federal Circuit has further confused preclusion doctrines in its patent law jurisprudence. In a series of recent decisions, the appellate court improperly created and then expanded upon a separate-and-distinct form of res judicata that it labels the Kessler Doctrine.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Commission published a long awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), COM(2022) 71 final, on 23 February 2022; the EU Council adopted its negotiation position on 1 December 2022; and now, the EU Parliament has suggested amendments to this Draft Directive on 1 June 2023.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 29, 2023

This also applies to the extended possibility of choice of court agreements, for which it is still unclear whether exclusive prorogation is possible beyond the cases named in Article 10 section 4 of the Brussels II ter Regulation. The Federal Supreme Court requested a ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on this issue in November 2018.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 2, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 4, 2023

79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The preliminary ruling procedure under Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) exists to ensure the uniform interpretation and application of EU law. One such condition is that the question referred to the court must be applicable to the decision in the initial legal dispute.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The revision of this regulation, which will enter into force on 1 July 2022, provides an opportunity to examine the current and future rules by taking the example of the international service of writs of summons. EU private international law rules are almost always value neutral. van Calster: Lex ecologia.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The second issue of 2022 of Giustizia Consensuale (published by Editoriale Scientifica) has just been released, and it features: Ferruccio Auletta and Alberto Massera , Giustizia consensuale e p.a.: Observatory on Legislation and Regulations Mauro Bove, I verbali che concludono la mediazione nel d.lgs.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

Furthermore, the authors look at areas of law where the EU has made use of its external competence. They discuss both important decisions and pending cases before the CJEU as well as important decisions from German courts pertaining to the subject matter of the article. While the court left the decision between lit. a and lit.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2022

Spring 2022 is roaring forward – and this semester is an especially busy one for me. All of this has given me a terrific opportunity to really think about procedure, law, and data. By Jason Rantanen. And it’s fortuitously come at a time when several related projects are coming to fruition.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Update of 28 September 2022: New entries are printed bold. Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts”, Oxford 2022. Indirect jurisdiction and Swedish law – Analysis and inquiry of the jurisdiction of Swedish courts in relation to the 2019 Hague Convention on Recognition and Enforcement”.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 30, 2022

On 10 June 2022, the University of Trento, Faculty of Law celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of Giustizia consensuale , founded and edited by Professor Silvana Dalla Bontà and Professor Paola Lucarelli. He stated that there are three points of interaction between agreement and procedure.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2022

Update of 31 August 2022: New entries are printed bold. Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts”, Oxford 2022. Indirect jurisdiction and Swedish law – Analysis and inquiry of the jurisdiction of Swedish courts in relation to the 2019 Hague Convention on Recognition and Enforcement”.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

During the twentieth century many countries moved from an absolute theory of foreign state immunity, under which countries could never be sued in another country’s courts, to the restrictive theory. But Russia joined the restrictive immunity camp in 2016, when its law on the jurisdictional immunity of foreign states went into effect.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 9/10 September 2022, taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany, we are offering here a Repository of contributions to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. Update of 20 April 2022: New entries are printed bold. Åkerfeldt, Xerxes. Amurodov, Jahongir.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2022

Update of 7 June 2022: New entries are printed bold. Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts”, Oxford 2022. Indirect jurisdiction and Swedish law – Analysis and inquiry of the jurisdiction of Swedish courts in relation to the 2019 Hague Convention on Recognition and Enforcement”.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2022

Hay : On the Road to a Third American Restatement of Conflicts Law. American private international law (Conflict of Laws, “Conflicts Law”) addresses procedure (jurisdiction of courts, recognition of judgments) as well as the choice of the applicable law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rescheduled: “The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention: Prospects for Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters between the EU and Third Countries” – Conference on 9 and 10 September 2022, University of Bonn, Germany. Update of 12 January 2022: New entries are printed bold. A Guide to Global Private International Law”, Oxford 2022, forthcoming.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 9/10 September 2022, taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany, we are offering here a Repository of contributions to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. Update of 16 February 2022: New entries are printed bold. Åkerfeldt, Xerxes. rs-953987/v1 ).

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 9/10 September 2022 , planned to be taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany, we are offering here a Repository of contributions to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. A Guide to Global Private International Law”, Oxford 2022, forthcoming.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Rescheduled: “The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention: Prospects for Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters between the EU and Third Countries” – Conference on 9 and 10 September 2022, University of Bonn, Germany. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 14, 2022

Judicial mediation is a unique dispute resolution mechanism in Chinese civil procedure. Wherever civil disputes are brought to the court, the judge should, based on parties’ consent, mediate before adjudicating. Zilin Hao, Anjie Law Firm, Beijing, China. This document is called ‘judicial mediation settlement’ in this note.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Climate litigation in Germany has achieved another major victory. On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. Germany of the Federal Constitutional Court, the focus of the decision is not on fundamental rights, but on administrative questions of climate governance and enforcement.

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