This is a past event
The Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law & Transnational Governance (CPILTG) is pleased to invite you to a webinar by Professor Caroline Rapatz (Kiel University, Germany).
Date and time
Wednesday 20 August 2025, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm UK time
Short summary
The situs or locus provides the main connecting factor in international property law (lex rei sitae) and international torts law (lex loci damni or lex loci delicti commissi) - however, these rules run empty in situations localized in extraterritorial regions. Resource exploitation in Antarctica, the deep seabed of the High Seas, and outer space requires reliable private (international) law rules, not least to safeguard sustainability and allocative fairness; so far, this aspect has largely been neglected in international treaty law. New, special conflict-of-laws rules suitable for these scenarios are urgently needed, preferably as part of a larger framework of internationally administered exploitation licenses.
Biography of our speaker
Prof. Dr. Caroline Sophie Rapatz, MPhil (Cantab.) is Professor of Civil Law, European and International Private and Procedural Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of Kiel University and Co-Director of the Institute for European and International Private and Procedural Law.
Her research focuses on the following areas
- National, international and European property law (with a focus on collateral law)
- Private International Law and Civil Procedure (with a focus on the Europeanisation of PIL)
- Comparative Law (specialisation in Romanic legal systems; European and global legal harmonisation)
- Speaker
- Professor Caroline Rapatz
- Hosted by
- Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance
- Venue
- Online
- Contact
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Please register for this webinar using the link below. Queries can be directed to michiel.poesen@abdn.ac.uk
