News

Are sex and gender distinctions in family law obsolete?
Institute director Anne Röthel has co-edited a volume in which five legal scholars explore the current significance of sex and gender in family law.
Prof. Nathan J. Brown (George Washington University/HIAS Hamburg): Does Studying Islam Change It? How Universities Structure Religion
Guest lecture as part of the series “Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law” on 22 February 2024.
Comparative Law in Action: Applying Foreign Law in German Courts
In the Max Planck Lawcast, Jan Peter Schmidt, Head of the Centre of Expertise for the Application of Foreign Law, discusses the long-standing tradition that the Institute has of providing expert opinions on foreign law for German courts.

New Releases

Working Paper
Ben Gerrit Köhler, Does the CISG Apply to Parties Based in Taiwan?, Transnational Litigation Blog, 2024, https://tlblog.org/does-the-cisg-apply-to-parties-based-in-taiwan/, 03/06/2024.
Proceedings
Florian Heindler, Martina Melcher, Andreas Engel, Katharina Kaesling, Ben Gerrit Köhler, Bettina Rentsch, Susanna Roßbach, Johannes Ungerer (eds.), Die Achtung des Fremden – Leerformel oder Leitprinzip im Internationalen Privatrecht?, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2024, VIII + 193 pp.
Case Note
Dieter Martiny, Schiedsvereinbarungen über die Beendigung eines Alleinvertriebsvertrages in Belgien (zu Hof van Cassatie van België, 7.4.2023 – C.21.0325.N), Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts 2024, 151–154.
Collected Edition
Konrad Duden, Denise Wiedemann (eds.), Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe (European family law series, 55), Intersentia, Cambridge 2024, XXI + 362 pp.
Journal Article
Holger Fleischer, Matthias Pendl, Die Flexible Kapitalgesellschaft als österreichische Rechtsformneuschöpfung: Genese – Grundlagen – Gesamtwürdigung, GmbH Rundschau 2024, 174–187.
Case Note
Anne Röthel, Rechtsgeschäftliche Geschlechterklauseln konventionswidrig! Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte vom 5. Juli 2022, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2024, 208–221.

Events

Dr. Edwin Rubio Medina (Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra): The dilemmas of the native. Interlegality processes in the conquest of the new world. A decolonial narrative of global legal historyPrivate International Laws.

Conflicts Club meets Latin America Roundtable
Mar 19, 2024 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ekin Korkmaz Göka (Atılım University): Regulating Digital Markets in Turkey: Harmony or Mishmash?

Current Research on Turkish Law
Mar 20, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
online

Prof. Dr. Maki Saitō: The Coming Revision of the Japanese Takeover Law and Future Issues

followed by a comment by Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibt
Mar 20, 2024 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Bettina Heiderhoff: Schnittstellen zwischen Migrationsrecht und Internationalem Familienrecht

Current Research in Private International Law
Apr 9, 2024 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
online

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Institute Facts and Figures

Institute Facts and Figures

February 15, 2024
Legal research seldom boils down to numbers. But it does come with measurable parameters. Here we have assembled the most important metrics about our Institute.
Anne Röthel – New Director at the Institute
With the start of 2024, Anne Röthel assumes the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, succeeding Reinhard Zimmermann, who retired in 2022. The internationally renowned legal scholar comes to the Institute after previously having held the Chair of Civil Law, European and International Civil Law at Bucerius Law School.
Research in a place of freedom and safety
Private Law Gazette 1/2023 – The danger and uncertainty resulting from persecution, war or catastrophe often make it difficult or even impossible to pursue scholarly work. Through a variety of programs, the Institute offers several researchers whose countries of origin pose particular dangers the chance to continue their academic work. Three of them describe their current situation.
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