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Interdisciplinary Study of the Law · Private Law

Early warning and the restructuring directive: could directors learn from insolvency practitioners?

Could the contribution of insolvency practitioners in creating early warning tools help company directors identify the moment in time when they should take measures to avoid insolvency?

A never-ending story: EU postpones decision on negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia

This blog entry sheds some light on Council’s conclusions of 18 June 2019 in which any decision of opening accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia was postponed to October 2019. How to read this decision and what could its implications?

Public Law

Deepwater Horizon

A little over nine years ago, a fire at the drilling rig ‘Deepwater Horizon’ caused the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry in the Gulf of Mexico. This month a new episode was added in the litigations following this disaster.

The infrequent use of conciliation

Conciliation was initially thought to have great potential for being employed in the majority of inter-State disputes. However, for several reasons, conciliation has not lived up to its expectations.

Public Law

Baby steps: parent-child relationships in gestational surrogacy cases

The ECHR recently delivered its first Advisory Opinion in a case on gestational surrogacy. The case is noteworthy in terms of the novel procedural dimension as well as in substance. Again, the Court examined France’s rigid stance on surrogate motherhood.

Is fragmentation an issue or an exception? Analysis of the Tadic and Bosnian Genocide cases

Fragmentation occurs when international proceedings that involve the same parties and raise the same issues arrive at different conclusions. The conflict in the ICTY’s Tadic decision and the ICJ’s Bosnian Genocide decision – an issue or an exception?