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Overview of the 2023 Amendments to Chinese Civil Procedure Law

Conflict of Laws

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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A Major Amendment to Provisions on Foreign-Related Civil Procedures Is Planned in China

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

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Freitag: More Freedom of Choice in Private International Law on the Name of a Person! The author analyses the background of the decision and discusses its consequences for the long-standing conflict of procedural laws ( Justizkonflikt) between the United States and Germany. The Court answered this question in the affirmative.

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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 ). This provision also follows the U.N.

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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. Nor do we want to add to the lively discussion on the choice-of-law- aspects regarding civil liability (see, amongst others, van Calster , Ho-Dac , Dias and, before the Proposal, Rühl ).

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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)

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Thus, in the Indonesian legal system, there is an interplay of civil law, which is inherited from the Dutch East Indies, adat (customary law), and Islamic law. It was especially fascinating to me to discover here that the Indonesian language is usually a legal requirement for drafting contracts involving Indonesians.

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

Conflict of Laws

First, Shell stated that the claimants abused procedural law, because the claims against Royal Dutch Shall were ‘obviously bound to fail and for that reason could not serve as a basis for jurisdiction as provided in art. Applicable law is defined based on the Dutch conflict of laws rules on torts, namely art.