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