In this article, I respond to Twining's lecture, ‘Globalisation and Legal Scholarship'. Through an overview of the effect these changes had on the WTO I will describe how a lawyer or scholar of an ‘established transnational field' experienced the phenomenon of globalisation. In the WTO, the...

This is the introduction to a book that explores the consequences of European integration for the application of public international law in the European Union and its Member States. As a consequence of the combination of expansion of the regulatory domain of international law and the increasing...

With the referenda on possible Scottish and Catalan independence and the electoral successes of the Flemish pro-independence movement, secession of part of a EU Member State has become a real possibility that cannot be ignored any longer. The driving forces behind the referenda seek independence...

The present article is devoted to practice of application of companies and citizens from Russia and other countries of the C.I.S. to the Court of Justice of the European Union, and practice of examination by the EU Court of Justice of pre-judicial references of national courts of the Member...

La présente note revient sur l'arrêt CJUE, 12 mai 2011, aff. C-144/10, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) c. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Frankfurt Branch. Au terme de cet arrêt, la solution suivante est posée: "une interprétation large de l'article 22, point 2, du règlement n° 44/2001, en vertu...

The proposal for a European Union Regulation establishing harmonized rules for artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) is under consideration. The structure and features of the proposal of this regulatory legal act of the integrational organization are analyzed. EU AI Act scope is...

The deadline for the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (the CDSM Directive) into national law expired on 7 June 2021. Some EU Member States have failed to perform the transposition, and so they also failed to introduce the new obligations under Article 17 prescribing brand new...

In recent years, the mobility of people within the European Union has created major problems such as the settlement of cross-borders inheritances that may accelerate in the coming years. Europeans as well as foreigners own estates in different countries. This ownership triggers the application...

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have become an essential legal instrument in international investment law for economic growth and development. BITs and multilateral investment treaties encourage foreign direct investment by providing legal protection to investors of the “home” state,...