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Doctoral scholarship: International accountability through the value chain in Antwerp

Conflict of Laws

The research can be approached from the perspective of human rights law, public international law or private international law, including private law mechanisms (either in tort or in contract law). The deadline for applications is 14 February 2022 and the start date is 15 September 2022.

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Supreme Court limits homeowners’ ability to sue their lenders in tort

At the Lectern

” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings. Balancing “the interests of homeowners in default against those seeking affordable home loans,” the Supreme Court in Sheen v.

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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)

Conflict of Laws

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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Out Now: Bizer on Violations of Personality Rights on Social Media

Conflict of Laws

As far as questions of contract law are concerned, Bizer rightly puts an emphasis on the fact that social media platforms often involve a triangle (or pyramid) of contractual relationships between the hosts and at least two users. Concerning tort law, Bizer is generally critical of the existing legal framework under Art.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

Congress attached no modifiers to “and laws,” erasing any doubt that any federal law can secure a right for Section 1983 purposes. HHC argued that spending clause enactments are unique. Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

. – This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. It is based on 40 structured interviews with sponsored athletes from various common law and civil law jurisdictions. The article demonstrates that the current contracting practice is unbalanced and inefficient.

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Now or Then? The Temporal Aspects of Choice-of-Law Clauses

Conflict of Laws

That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. There was, however, one important omission.

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