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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. This new law represents a shift from the previous policy of absolute state immunity to a regime of limited state immunity.

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Arizona asks court to approve “Kafkaesque” treatment of due-process claim from man on death row

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Arizona , the justices considered whether a state procedural rule prevents John Cruz, who was sentenced to death, from obtaining relief on his federal due-process claim in state post-conviction. To answer this question, the court must determine if Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(g) This time, he pointed to Rule 32.1(g),

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Italian Supreme Court rules on recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment even if preceded by a worldwide freezing injunction

Conflict of Laws

Written by Marco Farina, Italian lawyer, PhD in Civil Procedural Law at the University La Sapienza of Rome – Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University LUISS of Rome. The Court of Appeal of Rome reasoned under Article 64 (b), of the Italian Act on Private International Law (Law 31 May 1995 no.

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India dispatches: CJI calls for ‘Indianisation’ of ‘colonial’ justice system

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Speaking about the country’s judicial system, Justice Ramana emphasized the challenges faced by a common man approaching the courts. He acknowledged that the present justice delivery system in the country poses “multiple barriers for the common people” and that the “workings of the courts do not sit well with the complexities of India”.

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New edition: Hess’ Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht

Conflict of Laws

Just over ten years after the first edition of Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht (European Civil Procedure) by Burkhard Hess (director Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg) a second – even more voluminous and impressive – edition was published early 2021.

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The Hidden Treasure Trove of Conflicts of Law: the Case Law of the Mixed Courts of the Colonial Era

Conflict of Laws

This is especially so given that “external” conflict of laws rules seem to sometimes guide “internal” conflict of laws cases. [8] In a not so distant and colonial past, there were multiple “internationalized” or mixed courts in various regions and nations. The last such mixed court only closed its doors in 1980. [9]

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One Year of Pandemic-Driven Video Hearings at the German Federal Court of Justice in International Patent Matters: Interview with Federal Judge Harmut Rensen, Member of the Tenth Panel in Civil Matters

Conflict of Laws

I allow myself to pick up a few elements from this fascinating interview in the following for our international audience: The Tenth Panel functions as a court of first appeal ( Berufungsgericht ) in patent nullity proceedings and as a court of second appeal for legal review only ( Revisionsgericht ) in patent infringement proceedings.

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