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.
Elena Babkina (Ruhr University Bochum): Economic Sanctions as Overriding Mandatory Provisions: Were Dogma meets Economic Reality, 14 July 2026
Denise Wiedemann (Universität Kiel): Sozialistisches Internationales Privatrecht? Die Materialien zum Rechtsanwendungsgesetz der DDR, 9 July 2026
Madina Eseniyazova (Tashkent State University of Law): Jurisdictional Challenges in Investment Arbitration: The EU and Uzbekistan Approaches, 30 June 2026
Itsuko Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo): Toward 'International Information Law' amidst the Pluriverse: Empowering Individuals for Global Privacy Protection, 25 June 2026
Sandrine Brachotte (UAntwerp): Decolonial Legal Methods and Private International Law: A Conversation (to Learn from Each other?), 16 June 2026
Stellina Jolly (South Asian University): The Hague Conference on Private International Law in South Asia: Causes and Consequences of Uneven Integration, 9 June 2026
Céline Kellmann (Universität Zürich): Die inhaltliche Kontrolle von Schiedssprüchen, 26 May 2026
Jidong Lin (Wuhan University): Convergence and Divergence of Adjudicative and Prescriptive Jurisdiction, 19 May 2026
Roxana Banu (University of Oxford): The Role of Private International Law in the Legal Infrastructure of the British Empire, 12 May 2026
Luana Matoso (MPI Hamburg): Service Out Without Permission: What Does the Post-Brexit English Framework on Choice-of-Court Owe the Brussels I bis Regulation?, 28 April 2026
Sai Ramani Garimella (South Asian University): Unveiling the Past: Coloniality and the Historical Dynamics of Private International Law - Traversing the Colonial Legal History of India, 21 April 2026
Juliette Fauvarque (University Paris Panthéon-Assas): International Immunities and Jurisdiction: Rethinking the Role of Private International Law in Disputes Involving States and International Organizations, 14 April 2026
Isadora Bellati (Queen Mary - University of London): Between Stomachs and Soils: Prefiguring Alternatives to the Principle of the Social Function of Proprerty in Brasil, 31 March 2026
Tom Hick (MPI Hamburg): Freedom of contract, thought sustainably - trying to operationalize contract law as needs-driven, 17 March 2026
Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford): Thinking Internationally About German Private International Law, 10 March 2026
Cláudia Lima Costa (University of Porto): No-Fault Compensation Schemes for AI: The Role of Comparative Law, 17 February 2026
Jonas Bens (Hamburg University): What Is Punishment? Indigenous Conceptions and the Limits of Modernist Legal Thought, 10 February 2026
Yuchen Li (Wuhan University): Review of the Merits in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil and Commercial Judgments: Searching for Boundaries, 27 January 2026
Katharina Isabel Schmidt (MPI Hamburg): Law’s Logic on Trial: Automating Immigration in the Thatcher Years, 20 January 2026
Imen Gallala-Arndt (MPI for Social Anthropology): Gender in the Case-law of Apex Courts in Muslim Jurisdiction, 16 December 2025
Benedikt Schmitz (University of Groningen): Putting Party Autonomy in Its Place: Choice of Law for Consumer Contracts, 9 December 2025
Doruk Erhan (Yale Law School): Arbitration and Suspicion: Three Narratives of Legitimacy, 25 November 2025
Evelyn Ederveen (University of Hamburg): Competition Damages Actions: How Should Private International Law Be Arranged to Further the Right to Full Compensation?, 18 November 2025
Franz Gätjen (Georg-August Universität Göttingen): Die Behandlung faktischer Lebensgemeinschaften im Internationalen Privatrecht, 11 November 2025
Samir Saad (MPI Hamburg): The Arab Cold War and the making of the Jordanian Civil Code, 1953-1976, 14 October 2025
Passainte Ragab (MPI Hamburg): An Alienating Institution: Mobilization of Nationality in the Mixed Courts of Egypt and Other Forms of Exclusion, 30 September 2025
Leonie Schwannecke (Bucerius Law School): Recognition of Foreign Country Money Judgments under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution? On the Use of Res Judicata as a Simple Solution to a Complicated Problem, 23 September 2025
Rosa Pla Almendros (University of Valencia): Private Enforcement of the Digital Services Act and the Issue of Conflict of Laws, 16 September 2025
Ann-Kristin Mayrhofer (LMU München): Sachkunde im Zivilprozess – Wer hat sie? Wer prüft sie? Zugleich ein Beitrag zu § 293 ZPO, 9 September 2025
Silas Mohr (HU Berlin): Das forum necessitatis in globalen Lieferketten: Völkerrechtliche Grundlagen und europäische Handlungsoptionen, 29 July 2025
Jonathan Friedrichs (MPI Hamburg): Organizing Land Use Conflicts in German Private Property Law, 22 July 2025
Philipp Schlüter (University of Freiburg): Deliktischer Vermögensschutz in Deutschland und den USA, 24 June 2025
Francesca Iurlaro (MPI Hamburg): Emphyteusis and the Making of Brazil, 10 June 2025
Franziska Mauritz (University of Trier): Rechtswidrige Inhalte im Digital Services Act, 13 May 2025
Jacopo Giordano (University of Valencia): Navigating Jurisdiction in Cross-Border Trade Mark Infringement in the EU: The Forum Delicti Commissi, 29 April 2025
Iryna Dikovska (MPI Hamburg): Dealing with war-induced migration: Family law aspects, 22 April 2025
Chengjue Ji (Nanjing University): Exploring the Territoriality and Extraterritorial Application of Intellectual Property Law, 15 April 2025
Judith Onwuagbaizu (MPI Hamburg): Die Materialisierung des Kollisionsrechts am Beispiel des Umwelthaftungsstatuts, 8 April 2025
Antonia Sommerfeld (MPI Hamburg): Consumer Claims for their new 'EU-Right to Repair' in Cross-Border Contexts, 25 March 2025
Aron Johanson (LMU München): Der europäische Ehebegriff, 18 March 2025
Anton Zimmermann and Victoria Dintelmann (Universität Heidelberg): Internationales Privatrecht und Völkerrecht – Potentiale für eine Wiederannäherung?, 11 March 2025
Flavianne Bitencourt Nóbrega (Federal University of Pernambuco): Decolonial comparative law from the indigenous perspectives: rethinking collective property rights, 25 February 2025
Ralf Michaels, Philomena Hindermann (MPI): Against Characterization?, 18 February 2025
Zhao Yuncheng (China University of Political Science and Law): Expanding Chinese Exclusive Jurisdiction in International Civil Procedure: Legislative Reforms and Judicial Application, 11 February 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 January 2025
Francesca Iurlaro (MPI): The Invisible History: Editing and Publishing in Academia, 14 January 2025
Nicolas Dewitte (HU Berlin): Ein europäischer Handelsgerichtshof als Herausforderung für das europäische IPR?, 26 November 2024
Matthias Rufibach (Universität Bern): Die Anfechtung von prozessleitenden Verfügungen im schweizerischen und amerikanischen Zivilprozessrecht, 19 November 2024
Vincent Hoppmann (MPI): Comparative Law in Germany and the Global South: An Empirical Approximation, 5 November 2024
Abir Haddad (Institute for Legal Transformation): Rethinking Law in Times of Exponential Changes, 29 October 2024
Dharmita Prasad (MPI): Past to present: A brief history of caste evolution, 22 October 2024
Ralf Michaels (MPI): Internationales Privatrecht und Globaler Süden, 15 October 2024
Francesca Iurlaro (Università di Macerata): Legal Implants: Comparative Legal History and Emphyteusis, 8 October 2024
Iryna Dikovska (MPI): Abduction of children from Ukraine after February 24, 2022: Some aspects of the application of 1980 Hague Convention, 24 September 2024
Meltem Ece Oba (Koç University): Determining the Law Applicable to Cross-Border Prospectus Liability Claims, 17 September 2024
Antonia Sommerfeld (MPI), Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (University of Edinburgh): Towards Cross-border ‘Circular-ish’ Contracting for the Fashion Industry, 3 September 2024
Kwamou Eva Feukeu (MPI): Sustaining tradition, the archives of customary and state law that live within us, 6 August 2024
Ralf Michaels (MPI): Was ist fremdes Recht? Rechtstheoretische Grundlagen des § 293 ZPO, 30 July 2024
Lara Khoury (McGill University): Liability litigation as a tool for social change and improved health governance, 16 July 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 June 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 June 2024
Laura Kähler (University of Hamburg): Die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche aus gesetzlich angeordneten Schiedsverfahren, 11 June 2024
Andrew Dickinson (University of Oxford): Natural Justice and the Conflict of Laws - A Very Short Introduction, 27 May 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 May 2024
Passainte Ragab (Sorbonne): Revealing Lambert: The Shadows of Colonialism in Egyptian Legal Education, 30 April 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 April 2024
Luana Matoso (MPI): Die Vermutung der Ausschließlichkeit internationaler Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen: Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung, 16 April 2024
Luana Mathias Souto (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais): Fertility data and the European Union regulatory framework on data protection, 26 March 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 March 2024
Yuko Nishitani (Kyoto University Graduate School of Law): Nationality and Citizenship in Private International Law, 12 March 2024
Leonie Schwannecke (Bucerius Law School): Die Haftung der Erben bei faktischer Nachlassspaltung, 27 February 2024
Madeleine Petersen (Heidelberg University): SLAPPs – Ein IPR-Ansatz für grenzüberschreitende Einschüchterungsklagen in der EU, 20 February 2024
Kwamou Eva Feukeu (MPI): The Complexity of the Legal System: a Matter of Time, 13 February 2024
Martin Gronemann (FAU): Die staatliche Zustimmung zum Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren und die Möglichkeit ihrer Rücknahme, 30 January 2024
Philipp Kronier (MPI): Rechtfertigungs- und Zumutbarkeitsbedingungen für die Anwendung einer Rechtsordnung gegenüber dem Individuum, 23 January 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 December 2023
Lodewijk Van Dycke (Hamburg Institute for Social Research): Law and agriculture: Modern industrial capitalism and the state - A primer, 28 November 2023
Judith Onwuagbaizu (MPI): Das IPR der Klimaklage - die Lösung der Allmende-Tragödie?, 21 November 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 October 2023
Zixuan Yang (MPI): Is Party Autonomy a Solution to Immigrants' Cultural Identity?, 17 October 2023
Eckart Brödermann (University of Hamburg / Brödermann Jahn): Law Without Borders or OneFitsAll - the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 21 September 2023
Biset Sena Güneç (MPI): Forum Selection Clauses for E-Commerce: The EU Perspective, 12 September 2023
Antonia Sommerfeld, Ralf Michaels (MPI): The EU Sustainability Directive and Access to Court, 25 July 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 July 2023
Sarah Dadush (Rutgers Law School): Shared Responsibility in American Contract Law, 27 June 2023
Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (University of Edinburgh): Sustainability, Circular Economy and Transnational Law: Taming Fast Fashion, 13 June 2023
David Snyder (American University, Washington D.C.): Contracts as an Instrument of International Management and Governance, 23 May 2023
Daniel Bonilla (MPI / Universidad de los Andes): Global Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Nature, 16 May 2023
Gebreyesus Yimer (MPI): The Plurality of Norms in Ethiopia: Courts in Defense of Pluralism, 25 April 2023
Sebastian Seelmann-Eggebert (Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte): Theory and forensic reality of conflicts in investor-state arbitration, 11 April 2023
Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School): The Transnational Liberalism of Private International Law, 21 March 2023
Victoria Garin (EUI): Private International Law and the Person, 14 March 2023
Ralf Michaels, Samuel Zeh (MPI): Sustainability and Private International Law, 28 February 2023
Elizabeth Dakash (University of Göttingen / MPI): Climate Change Litigation in the Context of the Public-Private Distinction in International Law, 21 February 2023
Jacco Bomhoff (LSE Law School): Rationalizing Mid-Century Conflict of Laws, 7 February 2023
Melanie Manow (University of Hamburg): Wechselwirkung von Sachrechtsvergleichung und internationalem Privatrecht, 24 January 2023
Benjamin Saunier (Sorbonne): International Jurisdiction: is double functionality justified?, 17 January 2023