The recently published book Towards Universal Parenthood in Europe (Editoriale Scientifica, 2025), edited by Laura Carpaneto, Francesca Maoli, and Ilaria Queirolo, offers a

timely and rigorous contribution to European private international law and family law scholarship. [...]

From 18 to 20 June 2026 the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) will host its third biannual conference. Following the Association’s conferences in

Aarhus (Denmark) and Wroclaw (Poland) the conference promises to be a key event for scholars and practitioners interested in the present and future of European private [...]

For more than 20 years after the handover, Hong Kong courts had regularly noted difficulties with the ‘trial supervision system’ (also known as ‘retrial procedure’

) in the Chinese Mainland when attempting to recognise and enforce Mainland judgments under the common law, as the trial supervision system was thought to mean that [...]

Nadia Soboleva and John Hayes have published an article titled Aggregate Royalty for Cellular SEPs in Recent Court Decisions, 11/2025 GRUR Patent 546.  Here is the abstract:

Nadia Soboleva and John Hayes have published an article titled Aggregate Royalty for Cellular SEPs in Recent Court Decisions, 11/2025 GRUR Patent 546.  Here is the [...]

Richard Fentiman will be speaking on “Contactless Injunctions: New Approaches to Jurisdiction in English Law” at the forthcomming virtual workshop in the Max Planck Institute

for Comparative and International Private Law series “Current Research in Private International Law” to be held on on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, at 11:00 (CET). [...]

Since not all readers of the blog can be presumed to be avid consumers of the Journal of Legal History, it may be worth pointing out that issue 46/1 (2025) (table of contents

 here) was dedicated to jurisdiction in the European Central Middle Ages. In their (open access) introduction, historians Danica Summerlin and Alice Taylor suggest [...]

An upcoming milestone in private international law — Recognition and Enforcement of Non-EU Judgments (Bloomsbury / Hart Publishing, Feb. 19 2026), edited by Tobias Lutzi,

Ennio Piovesani, and Dora Zgrabljic Rotar. [...]

I. INTRODUCTION This is the second symposium relating to private international law in Africa to be hosted on this blog, following a series that has run consistently since 2

February 2026. The first symposium, which focused on private international law in Nigeria, took place on 14 December 2020 and was jointly hosted on Afronomics and [...]

There already has been a lot going on in the IP world this year, especially in relation to SEPs  in the U.K., Germany, and China; and unfortunately, I am still a bit underwater

for a variety of reasons--including the fact I’m teaching one-and-a-half-new courses this semester; the release of my new book Remedies in Intellectual Property [...]

Event type: Hybrid Date & time: 26 Feb 2026, 13:00 – 14:00 Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Hernández-Bretón, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Monteavila About the

event: Over the past 50 years, Venezuela’s legal framework for the oil industry has been on a roller coaster. [...]