Human Rights and Eu Private International Law

Lectures:
- Private international law overview: Object, function, and methods
- Jurisdiction, applicable law, and recognition/enforcement of judgments concerning contractual and non-contractual obligations
- Jurisdiction, applicable law, and recognition/enforcement of judgments in family law matters
- Gaps in the EU PIL system: Matters not yet covered by EU uniform rules, such as personal status, marriage validity, and filiation
- Human Rights Protection: Sources of international human rights law, the UN system of protection of human rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights

Workshops
- jurisdiction rules and the protection of rights of access to justice and to an effective remedy and fair trial
- public policy exception and violations of human rights or discrimination resulting from the application of a foreign law
- violations of human rights resulting from failure to recognize and enforce foreign judgments
- violations of human rights resulting from automatic recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in case of violations of due process in the State of origin
- violations of the right to respect for private and family life resulting from failure to recognise a personal status established in a foreign State