The Lindemann Fellowship was established in 2024 to support promising academics in Europe in the field of private international law.  Fellows are accepted for a three-year

period, with new Fellows joining each year, as existing Fellows complete their tenure.  [...]

Enrico Bonadio and various coauthors have recently published several papers on SEP/FRAND issues in the European Intellectual Property Review.  All of these are available on

Westlaw, in case you don’t have a standalone subscription to EIPR. [...]

Another post in our series on arbitration evolution in China. This post explores the question of how far should a system move toward internationally familiar arbitration norms

while retaining domestic institutional choices? China’s New Arbitration LawSong Lianbin and Huang Yi China’s first comprehensive rewrite of its Arbitration Law [...]

Over the past several months, three state appellate courts in the United States have examined whether a “talaq” divorce obtained in another country is entitled to recognition

as a matter of comity. In this post, I first survey the rules relating to the recognition of foreign divorce judgments in the United States. [...]

Last week I mentioned that IIC (the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, published by the Max Planck Institute in Munich) had published an editorial

by Richard Arnold titled A Jurisdictionally Neutral Approach to SEP/FRAND Disputes?, 57 IIC 613 (2026). [...]

    The publication of the open-access Festschrift in honour of Professor Christopher F Forsyth KC, Commercial Private International Law in Southern Africa: Comparative and

International Perspectives, has previously been announced on this blog. [...]

Another blog in our series on Chinese arbitration! Can the Arbitrator Also Mediate? Jialin Li Many mediators and arbitrators are trained to keep those roles separate. A mediator

may hear confidential information, test weaknesses, and float possible compromises; an arbitrator must decide on the record and remain visibly impartial. [...]

The following announcement has kindly been provided by Silvia Marino The new extensive Volume Multistate Torts in European Private International Law was just published by Edward

Elgar Publishing. This book is the outcome of the second edition of the EAPIL Winter School in Private International Law. [...]

  Choice of forum clauses are an important means of managing litigation risk in international commercial contracts. Their effectiveness, however, depends on how courts understand

and enforce the parties’ agreement. This well-researched book offers a substantial comparative examination of that problem across seven Asian jurisdictions: Singapore, [...]

My colleague, Renee Henson, wrote an important new article, My Negotiation Chatbot Toby and Pedagogical Governance, about a chatbot that she developed for her first-year Lawyering:

Problem-Solving and Dispute Resolution course at the University of Missouri Law School. [...]