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. [...]

Written by Matteo Mangone, PhD candidate in Private Law at the University of Turin Protection of Forced Heirs and International Public Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Germany

and Italy in Light of the Bundesgerichtshof Judgment of 29 June 2022 [...]

  As part of the second online symposium on recent developments in African private international law, we are pleased to present the seventh an final contribution, kindly prepared

by Solomon Okorley (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), which examines a decision of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal ordering the return of a child [...]

  As part of the second online symposium on recent developments in African private international law, we are pleased to present the sixth contribution, kindly prepared by

Theophilus Edwin Coleman (University at Buffalo School of Law, New York (USA) & Senior Research Associate, RCPILEC, University of Johannesburg, South Africa). [...]

  As part of the second online symposium on recent developments in African private international law, we are pleased to present the fifth contribution, kindly prepared by

Elisa Rinaldi (University of Pretoria, South Africa) on Cross-border employment, competition and delictual liability merge in the South African High Court: Placement [...]