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Conflict of Laws

The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Instead, we address a gap in the Draft Directive, namely the lack of any provisions on jurisdiction.

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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 ). Russia and China long adhered to the absolute theory.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2023: Abstracts

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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. Only if the rules are interpreted with a sense of proportion the desired improvements can be achieved.

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Shell litigation in the Dutch courts – milestones for private international law and the fight against climate change

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As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Oil spill in Nigeria and litigation in The Hague courts. Introduction.

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

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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. Implementing the Hague Judgments Convention”, New York University Law Review 97 (2022), pp.

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Update: HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository

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Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. The Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act and the Hague Judgments and Jurisdictions Projects”, Osgoode Hall Law Journal 55 (2018), pp 257-304. Garcimartín Alférez, Francisco; Saumier, Geneviève. 1 of December 2018 (available here ). Blom, Joost.

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Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Conflict of Laws

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. Implementing the Hague Judgments Convention”, New York University Law Review 97 (2022), pp.