Events Event Archive Event Archive 2025 Location: online Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (formerly Supreme Court of Pakistan) and Muhammad Zubair Abbasi (Royal Holloway, University of London): The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Ruling on Women’s Right to Maintenance: Justice Shah and Zubair Abbasi in Conversation Private Law in Context Across Asia and North Africa Date: Dec 15, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Béligh Elbalti (Osaka University): The Double Face of Private International Law: Reconsidering Its Colonial Entanglements Current Research in Private International Law Date: Dec 5, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Zeina Jallad (American University of Beirut): The Death of Sovereignty: Palestine and the Economies of Erasure Private Law in Context Across Asia and North Africa Date: Dec 4, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Corinna Coupette (Aalto University): Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Systems Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group "Artificial Justice" Date: Dec 3, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre (Universidad de la República in Montevideo): Party Autonomy in International Commercial Contracts With a Weak Bargaining Party MPI-ASADIP Trialogues in Private International Law Date: Nov 27, 2025 Time: 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Caroline Sophie Rapatz (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel): Fly Me to the Moon and Let Me Play Among the Laws? Current Research in Private International Law Date: Nov 4, 2025 Time: 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Yoan Hermstrüwer (University of Zurich): The Judicial Mind of Large Language Models Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group "Artificial Justice" Date: Oct 15, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Nadia de Araujo (Pontifícia Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): Highlights on the project for a Brazilian Law on Private International Law Current Research in Private International Law Date: Oct 8, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Ekaterina Pannebakker (University of Leiden): Teaching Sustainability in Transnational Commercial Law Sustainable Private Law Talks Date: Sep 30, 2025 Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Alex Reiss-Sorokin (Princeton University): The Computer in the Law Firm: The Early Automation of Legal Research in the United States, 1964-1974 Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group "Artificial Justice" Date: Sep 3, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Prof. Eva Lein (Lausanne University): PIL and dispute resolution in times of crisis Current Research in Private International Law Date: Sep 2, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Henry Prakken (Utrecht University): The History of AI & Law: Not Just ChatGPT Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group "Artificial Justice" Date: Jul 9, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Prof. Dr. Gérard Anou (Université Grenoble Alpes): La vente internationale de marchandises dans les pays de l'OHADA Private International Law in Africa Date: Jun 23, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, Carmen Tiburcio and Jürgen Samtleben: Legacy and Change in Private International Law in Latin America MPI-ASADIP Trialogues in Private International Law Date: Jun 16, 2025 Time: 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Sustainable Private Law Talks: Discussing Freedom of Contract with Professor Dr Jan-Erik Schirmer Date: Jun 5, 2025 Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Michael Karayanni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Voice and Exit in Private International Law: The Case of the Israeli Inter-religious Regime Current Research in Private International Law Date: Jun 3, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Stephan Breidenbach (Rulemapping Group): Law as Code Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group "Artificial Justice" Date: May 7, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Konrad Duden (University of Hamburg): Squaring the Circle - Recognising Rare Family Forms and Gender Identities Within the EU Current Research in Private International Law Date: May 6, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Assoc. Prof. Dr. Işık Önay (Koç University): Interpretation of the Scope of International Commercial Arbitration Agreements: A Comparison of Swiss and Turkish Case Law Current Research on Turkish Law Date: May 5, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Carlos Esplugues (University of Valencia): Take Domestic Law and Run? The Application of Foreign (Private? State?) Law in Times of Uncertainty Current Research in Private International Law Date: Apr 1, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Prof. Dr. K. Berk Kapancı (MEF University: UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law (DAPL): An Ideal Model for Turkish Law? Current Research on Turkish Law Date: Mar 12, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Thomas Kadner Graziano (University of Geneva): Towards a European Private International Law Act – The Project of the EAPIL Current Research in Private International Law Date: Mar 4, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Dr. Solomon Okorley (University of Johannesburg): The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention in Ghana: A Long-Awaited Solution Private International Law in Africa Date: Feb 24, 2025 Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Pietro Franzina (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart): EU Private International Law at a Time of ‘Broken Multilateralism’ and Growing Geo-Political Tensions Current Research in Private International Law Date: Feb 4, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more] Joseph William Singer (Harvard Law School): Conflict of Abortion Laws Current Research in Private International Law Date: Jan 7, 2025 Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Location: online [more]