Conflicts Club

(since 2023)

The Conflicts Club is a weekly forum for Institute members and guests to share and discuss their work on current problems and developments in private international law and adjacent topics.


Flavianne Bitencourt Nóbrega (Federal University of Pernambuco):
Decolonial comparative law from the indigenous perspectives: rethinking collective property rights, 25.02.2025

Ralf Michaels, Philomena Hindermann (MPI): Against Characterization?, 18.02.2025

Zhao Yuncheng (China University of Political Science and Law): Expanding Chinese Exclusive Jurisdiction in International Civil Procedure: Legislative Reforms and Judicial Application, 11.02.2025

Zixuan Yang (MPI): Providing Legal Identity for All—a Comparative Study of the Cross-Border Recognition of Personal Status in the Europeanization and Asian Regionalization, 21.01.2025

Francesca Iurlaro (MPI): The Invisible History: Editing and Publishing in Academia, 14.01.2025

Nicolas Dewitte (HU Berlin): Ein europäischer Handelsgerichtshof als Herausforderung für das europäische IPR?, 26.11.2024

Matthias Rufibach (Universität Bern): Die Anfechtung von prozessleitenden Verfügungen im schweizerischen und amerikanischen Zivilprozessrecht, 19.11.2024

Vincent Hoppmann (MPI): Comparative Law in Germany and the Global South: An Empirical Approximation, 05.11.2024

Abir Haddad (Institute for Legal Transformation): Rethinking Law in Times of Exponential Changes, 29.10.2024

Dharmita Prasad (MPI): Past to present: A brief history of caste evolution, 22.10.2024 

Ralf Michaels (MPI): Internationales Privatrecht und Globaler Süden, 15.10.2024

Francesca Iurlaro (Università di Macerata): Legal Implants: Comparative Legal History and Emphyteusis, 08.10.2024 

Iryna Dikovska (MPI): Abduction of children from Ukraine after February 24, 2022:  Some aspects of the application of 1980 Hague Convention, 24.09.2024

Meltem Ece Oba (Koç University): Determining the Law Applicable to Cross-Border Prospectus Liability Claims, 17.10.2024 

Antonia Sommerfeld (MPI), Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (University of Edinburgh): Towards Cross-border ‘Circular-ish’ Contracting for the Fashion Industry, 03.09.2024

Kwamou Eva Feukeu (MPI): Sustaining tradition, the archives of customary and state law that live within us, 06.08.2024

Ralf Michaels (MPI): Was ist fremdes Recht? Rechtstheoretische Grundlagen des § 293 ZPO, 30.07.2024

Lara Khoury (McGill University): Liability litigation as a tool for social change and improved health governance, 16.07.2024

Maria Ochoa (Loyola University Sevilla): German colonial experiences in Venezuela in the 16th, 19th and 20th centuries - A historical unpacking of law in a postcolonial society, 25.06.2024

Felix Berner (University of Hamburg / University of Tübingen): Characterisation in context – a comparative evaluation of European law, UK law and the laws of southern Africa, 18.06.2024

Laura Kähler (University of Hamburg): Die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche aus gesetzlich angeordneten Schiedsverfahren, 11.06.2024

Andrew Dickinson (University of Oxford): Natural Justice and the Conflict of Laws - A Very Short Introduction, 27.05.2024

Zixuan Yang (MPI): Trans-Border Family Life between Private and Public – Recognition of Marital Status for Regional Migrants in Macao, Hong Kong and Mainland China, 21.05.2024

Passainte Ragab (Sorbonne): Revealing Lambert: The Shadows of Colonialism in Egyptian Legal Education, 30.04.2024

Nicholas Mouttotos (University of Bremen): The legal fiction of consent in dispute resolution agreements: A look at doctrinal developments in the European Union and the United States, 23.04.2024

Luana Matoso (MPI): Die Vermutung der Ausschließlichkeit internationaler Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung, 16.04.2024

Luana Mathias Souto (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais): Fertility data and the European Union regulatory framework on data protection, 26.03.2024

Edwin Rubio Medina (Universidade de Coimbra): The dilemmas of the native. Interlegality processes in the conquest of the new world. A decolonial narrative of global legal history, 19.03.2024

Yuko Nishitani (Kyoto University Graduate School of Law): Nationality and Citizenship in Private International Law, 12.03.2024

Leonie Schwannecke (Bucerius Law School): Die Haftung der Erben bei faktischer Nachlassspaltung, 27.02.2024

Madeleine Petersen (Heidelberg University): SLAPPs – Ein IPR-Ansatz für grenzüberschreitende Einschüchterungsklagen in der EU, 20.02.2024

Kwamou Eva Feukeu (MPI): The Complexity of the Legal System: a Matter of Time, 13.02.2024

Martin Gronemann (FAU): Die staatliche Zustimmung zum Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren und die Möglichkeit ihrer Rücknahme, 30.01.2024

Philipp Kronier (MPI): Rechtfertigungs- und Zumutbarkeitsbedingungen für die Anwendung einer Rechtsordnung gegenüber dem Individuum, 23.01.2024

Moritz Kocher (University of Zurich): Schadenersatzansprüche aus Vertrag als Massnahme zum Schutz von internationalen Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen – Zur Statthaftigkeit des Rechtsbehelfs im System von Lugano nach dem EuGH-Urteil Charles Taylor Adjusting, 12.12.2023

Lodewijk Van Dycke (Hamburg Institute for Social Research): Law and agriculture: Modern industrial capitalism and the state - A primer, 28.11.2023

Judith Onwuagbaizu (MPI): Das IPR der Klimaklage - die Lösung der Allmende-Tragödie?, 21.11.2023

Ruida Chen (China University of Political Science and Law): Cross-Border Cultural Property Claims: Contemporary Challenges to and Responses by Private International Law —— Revisiting the Repatriation of a Chinese Mummified Buddha Statue, 24.10.2023

Zixuan Yang (MPI): Is Party Autonomy a Solution to Immigrants' Cultural Identity?, 17.10.2023

Eckart Brödermann (University of Hamburg / Brödermann Jahn): Law Without Borders or OneFitsAll - the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 21.09.2023

Biset Sena Güneç (MPI): Forum Selection Clauses for E-Commerce: The EU Perspective, 12.09.2023

Antonia Sommerfeld, Ralf Michaels (MPI): The EU Sustainability Directive and Access to Court, 25.07.2023

Saloni Khanderia (OP Jindal Global University): The Role of Private International Law in the Adjudication of Cross-Border Civil and Commercial Disputes in BRICS: Some Reciprocal Lessons, 18.07.2023

Sarah Dadush (Rutgers Law School): Shared Responsibility in American Contract Law, 27.06.2023

Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (University of Edinburgh): Sustainability, Circular Economy and Transnational Law: Taming Fast Fashion, 13.06.2023

David Snyder (American University, Washington D.C.): Contracts as an Instrument of International Management and Governance, 23.05.2023

Daniel Bonilla (MPI / Universidad de los Andes): Global Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Nature, 16.05.2023

Gebreyesus Yimer (MPI): The Plurality of Norms in Ethiopia: Courts in Defense of Pluralism, 25.04.2023

Sebastian Seelmann-Eggebert (Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte): Theory and forensic reality of conflicts in investor-state arbitration, 11.04.2023

Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School): The Transnational Liberalism of Private International Law, 21.03.2023

Victoria Garin (EUI): Private International Law and the Person, 14.03.2023

Ralf Michaels, Samuel Zeh (MPI): Sustainability and Private International Law, 28.02.2023

Elizabeth Dakash (University of Göttingen / MPI): Climate Change Litigation in the Context of the Public-Private Distinction in International Law, 21.02.2023

Jacco Bomhoff (LSE Law School): Rationalizing Mid-Century Conflict of Laws, 07.02.2023

Melanie Manow (University of Hamburg): Wechselwirkung von Sachrechtsvergleichung und internationalem Privatrecht, 24.01.2023

Benjamin Saunier (Sorbonne): International Jurisdiction: is double functionality justified?, 17.01.2023

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