About the Conference
This international scientific conference focuses on contemporary challenges in private international law, with particular attention to the impact of new technologies on legal systems.
The event will be held online and will bring together students, doctoral candidates, researchers, and practitioners from different countries and academic backgrounds. We aim to create a space for discussion, exchange of ideas, and sharing research experiences.
Participants will have an opportunity to present their work, discuss current developments, and reflect on the future of private international law in a rapidly changing global environment.
We also plan a post-conference publication featuring papers presented during the conference.
Participation in the conference is free of charge.
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Keynote Speaker
Professor
Matthias Lehmann
Matthias Lehmann is Full Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the international and comparative dimensions of banking and financial law, as well as cross-border dispute resolution. Professor Lehmann is a member of the European Law Institute, the American Law Institute, Academia Europaea, the International Association of Comparative Law, the Association Henri Capitant, and the European Banking Institute. He has contributed to the European Commission’s Expert Group on Conflict of Laws Regarding Securities and Claims and has participated in working groups of the UK Financial Markets Law Committee, UNIDROIT, and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), including projects related to digital assets and digital tokens.
At the conference, Professor Matthias Lehmann will deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Irresolvable Conflicts of Laws? Private International Law in a State of Permacrisis.” The lecture will examine the growing challenges facing private international law in an era shaped by overlapping crises and political disputes, as constitutional orders and private international law are subject to sustained and existential attacks.
Speakers
- Luís Oliveira
Ph.D. candidate in procedural law, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Presentation title: Jurisdiction Without Applicable Law: The UPC’s Long-Arm Jurisdiction and the Dissociation of PIL Connecting Factors in Technological Patent Disputes
- Irakli Leonidze, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Lecturer in Family and Inheritance Law, Faculty of Law, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Court and Private Mediator, Georgia
Presentation title: The Problem of Denying Inheritance Rights to Stepchildren: Legal Formalism in Private International Law
- José Juan Castelló Pastor, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Associate Professor of Private International Law, Faculty of Law, Universitat de València, Spain
Presentation title: Locus damni 2.0: Reframing Article 7(2) Brussels I bis in Antitrust Damages Litigation
- Thomas Hamelin
Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Presentation title: Macroeconomic Impacts of a Consolidated European Private International Law Act
- Xiaoxu Wang
Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Presentation title: Choice of Law in Cross-Border Torts Involving Generative Artificial Intelligence: Challenges in European Private International Law
- Georgia Sagri, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece
Presentation title: International Lis Pendens in Provisional, Protective, and Regulatory Measures under Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 after Case C-581/20 (Toto SpA): A Re-approach
- Ioana M. Bratu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Solicitor (England and Wales) and Legal Scholar, UK
Presentation title: Rethinking Characterisation in Private International Law for Cyberspace Disputes
- Nguyen Le Hoai, LL.M. / Nguyen Phan Van Anh, LL.M.
Nguyen Le Hoai: Ph.D. candidate; Lecturer, Department of Private International Law and Comparative Law, Faculty of International Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam
Nguyen Phan Van Anh: Master of Laws (LL.M.); Lecturer, Faculty of International Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam
Presentation title: The Governing Law in Cross-Border Voluntary Carbon Credit Transactions
- Obbie Afri, S.H., M.A., LL.M.
Ph.D. candidate in law and political sciences, Faculty of Law, Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, Hungary
Presentation title: Transnational Climate Torts and the Limits of Classical Connecting Factors
- Dominik Horodyski, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, SWPS University; Counsel, Department of International and European Law at the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland, Poland
Presentation title: AI Guidelines in International Arbitration: Soft Law, Procedural Fairness, and the Limits of Self-Regulation
- Stefano Dominelli, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Associate Professor of International Law, Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy
Presentation title: The Emergence of a New Legal Status for the Environment and for Animals: Conflict of Laws Proposals
- Gökçe Arikan, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Assistant Professor, Private International Law Department, Faculty of Law, Balıkesir University, Turkey
Presentation title: Challenges in the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments Rendered by AI-Assisted Courts
- Miłosz Malaga, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Presentation title: Digital Fairness Beyond Borders: Applicable Law in DMA and DSA Litigation
- Curzio Fossati, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Postdoctoral researcher in private international law, University of Insubria, Como, Italy
Presentation title: The Future of Cross-Border Successions: Lights and Shadows of the Digitalization of Judicial Cooperation in Inheritance Matters
- Lemuel D. Lopez, Ph.D.
Lecturer in law, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia
Presentation title: Why Locate Intangible Property? Situs and the Functions of Territoriality in Private International Law
- Dilara Baytaroglu, Ph.D.
Doctor of Law; Assistant Professor, Private International Law Department, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Presentation title: Rethinking Third-State Overriding Mandatory Provisions in a Fragmented Global Economy in Comparative Perspective
- Anna Maria Ruiz Martín, Ph.D. / Vesela Andreeva Andreeva, Ph.D.
Anna Maria Ruiz Martín: Doctor of Law; Associate Professor of Private International Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Vesela Andreeva Andreeva: Doctor of Law; Associate Professor of Private International Law, University of Barcelona, Spain
Presentation title: Some Artificial Intelligence Challenges and European Private International Law: Moving Forward to a More Technological Conflict of Laws Paradigm?
- Xenia Seabright
Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria
Presentation title: Tokenized Collateral and the Conflict of Laws
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Organizers
Organizing Committee
- Aleksandrs Fillers, Ph.D. / Associate Professor | Riga Graduate School of Law
- Adrian Rycerski, Ph.D. | SWPS University
Location
online