Private International Law and Integrated Markets
Private International Law and Integrated Markets (PILIM) was a cross-regional research project that aimed to enhance the role and contribution of Private International Law in to market growth and integration.
PILIM explored the role of Private International Law through different lenses or methodologies and aimed to facilitate the development of a contemporary inclusive discourse needed to adapt it to the realities of regional integration.
The European Union and Mercosur geographical regions have both generated an intricate discourse within Private International Law compounded by legal technicalities. Collaborative teaching, co-authored publications and five programmed international events built on the capacity of lawyers and scholars to make Private International Law a more efficient vehicle for the development of both the EU and Mercosur markets.
Through comparative study of both the European Union and Mercosur regions, PILIM examined three inter-related levels at which the legal technicalities within Private International Law seem to perpetuate. The project explored why and how these intricacies persisted within the regions and then examined the ways in which the practice of Private International Law by academia, legal education, arbitrators, judges and legal personnel cope and overcome this complexity.
Dr Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (JD, LLM, PhD) was the principal investigator leading the Private International Law and Development of Integrated Markets collaborative research project, having been awarded an International Partnership and Mobility Research Grant by the British Academy in the 2013 round. She is a Senior Lecturer in International Private Law at Edinburgh Law School. She has academic experience in several jurisdictions and practical experience in shipping law through qualification at the Uruguayan bar. Dr. Ruiz Abou-Nigm has extensive research experience in international commercial law over a range of specialties such as shipping, aviation and air law alongside commercial litigation and international arbitration. She is the author of Arrest of Ships in Private International Law (OUP 2011) and co-author of Morris on The Conflict of Laws (8th ed Sweet & Maxwell 2012). She is also an assistant editor of Dicey, Morris & Collins: The Conflict of Laws (First Supplement to the 15th ed 2014). Her expertise in the commercial field is recognized through her position as a specialist editor of Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law, the leading UK publication on air law. Dr. Ruiz Abou-Nigm has been appointed UK National Reporter on various topics within private international law to the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). She is a member, inter alia, of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP), the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS).
Prof Maria Blanca Noodt Taquela (PhD) was the co-investigator in this research project. She has contributed extensively to the teaching and normative development of Private International Law in Argentina through the many publications and works she has produced at both Universidad de Belgrano and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Having been a visiting scholar at Sheffield Law School in 2012, she formed this partnership with Dr. Ruiz Abou-Nigm to pursue the furtherance of a cross-regional development of Private International Law discourse. Prof. Noodt Taquela works as both an independent advisor in Private International Law and Commercial Arbitration, having qualified at the Argentinian bar. She is a member of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP) and has taught at The Hague Academy of International Law (2012).
Private International Law: Embracing Diversity
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh at St. Trinnean’s Room, St. Leonard’s Hall (24 Februay 2017).
Keynote address: Private International Law as the Ethics of Engaging the Other, Ralf Michaels, Arthur Larson Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Can Private International Law be an appropriate tool for the Development of Integrated Markets?
Montevideo, Uruguay Workshop (14 December 2015)
International Private Law Research Seminar
Delivered by Prof. Nieve Rubaja (University of Buenos Aires) and hosted by the University of Edinburgh at the Charles Stewart House (6 November 2015).
Presentation: The Rights of the Child in Internaitonal Child Abduction and International Surrogacy Cases from an Argentinean Perspective
Arbitration and Private International Law Conference
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (27 February 2015).
International Private Law Workshop
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh and delivered by Sebastian Paredes (Ph.D. candidate, Universidad de Buenos Aires) on ‘Internet and other Technological Resources - Its Impact in the Access to the Contents of Foreign Law’ (25 February 2015).
Private International Law and Regional Integration / Derecho Internacional Privado e Integracion Regional
Workshop hosted by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (29 October 2014).
Methodological Difficulties of the Discourse of Private International Law and How to Overcome Them and Make it More Accessible / Dificultades Metodologicas del Discurso del Derecho Internacional Privado. Como Superarlas y Hacerlo Mas Accesible
Research Project Launch hosted by Universidad del Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina (9 June 2014).
One of PILIM’s objectives was to motivate young researchers to explore diversity in Private International Law (PrIL), engaging with the ethos of this cross-regional collaboration.
Young researchers have taken part in several PILIM conferences and workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Scotland and Uruguay. These opportunities connected PILIM researchers with upcoming young researchers interested in the study of PrIL and its discourse and ways to facilitate the development of integrated markets.
In pursuit of this objective PILIM made a call for posters and videos to young South American researches to give them the opportunity to disseminate their work to a wider audience in Edinburgh at PILIM’s final Conference: Embracing Diversity, Friday 24th February 2017.
Videos
Christian Pablo González Johansen - Access to Justice and Human Rights: Its Influence in the Analysis of Indirect Jurisdiction View video
Florencia S. Wegher Osci - Private International Law Challenges Regarding Multinational Corporations and Human Rights Violations: American Perspectives View video
Nancy Rocío Ordóñez Penagos - Towards the Universalisation of the Principle of the Most Favourable Rule in International Consumer Relations View video
Venecia Buceta - Child Abduction Cases: The Uruaguay Draft PrIL Act and its Discourse View video
Martin Cammarata and Luisina Rossi - The New International Jurisdiction: Between Institutions and Social Movements View video