Crossroads in Private International Law Webinar with on ‘the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive’ at the University of Aberdeen – Conflict of Laws

The Centre for Non-public Worldwide Legislation & Transnational Governance of the College of Aberdeen is constant its Crossroads in Non-public Worldwide Legislation webinar sequence with a chat by Birgit van Houtert (Maastricht College) and Francesca Farrington (Groningen College) titled ‘The EU Anti-SLAPP Directive – Comparative Views on Implementation’:

The Centre for Non-public Worldwide Legislation & Transnational Governance invitations you to our subsequent Crossroads in PIL webinar. This session brings collectively specialists on Anti-SLAPP laws from the UK and the Netherlands to debate the Anti-SLAPP Directive. With 6 months to go earlier than the Directive’s implementation deadline, this webinar will take inventory of rising greatest practices and challenges in implementing the directive and flesh out some unresolved questions.

Dr Francesca Farrington (College of Liverpool) will introduce the challenges posed by cross-border SLAPPs, earlier than discussing how the Directive’s provisions on jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of overseas judgments reply to those challenges. Whereas these provisions characterize a optimistic growth, additionally they depart plenty of points unresolved and lift considerations in regards to the fragmentation of European non-public worldwide legislation.

Dr Birgit van Houtert (Maastricht College) will tackle the Dutch draft act relating to the transposition of the Anti SLAPP Directive. She is going to focus specifically on the challenges regarding the implementation of Articles 16 and 17 of the Directive. These core non-public worldwide legislation provisions goal to supply safety for SLAPP targets towards third nation proceedings and judgments.

The webinar can be chaired by Prof Justin Borg-Barthet (College of Aberdeen).

Further data and the hyperlink to register may be discovered right here.