By Eduardo Álvarez-Armas, Assistant Professor of Regulation on the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain) and Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Earlier this 12 months, publishing home Tirant Lo Blanch launched “Un Derecho Internacional Privado centrado en los derechos de las personas” (Personal worldwide legislation as targeted on the rights of people), a quantity that compiles the papers offered within the “VII Seminario AEPDIRI sobre temas de actualidad de Derecho Internacional Privado”, the seventh workshop on trending subjects in personal worldwide legislation organized by the Spanish Affiliation of Worldwide Regulation and Worldwide Relations Professors. These workshops on trending subjects, initiated in 2015, have grow to be one of the vital educational actions of the Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI). They supply a yearly discussion board for collective reflection on probably the most dynamic and debated questions in every of the affiliation’s educational branches (public worldwide legislation, personal worldwide legislation and worldwide relations), enhancing the trade of analysis and apply concepts amongst teachers, judges, and authorized professionals, from Spain and past.
As mirrored on this e-book (digitally accessible totally free / open entry right here), the 2024 version of the workshop was held on 14 March 2024 on the Regulation Faculty of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid, and was convened by Professors Beatriz Campuzano Díaz (Universidad de Sevilla), Guillermo Palao Moreno (Universidad de Valencia), and Salomé Adroher Biosca (Universidad Pontificia Comillas). The theme chosen for the workshop sought to re-frame and place the highlight of the sphere on its final topics — human beings — by analyzing how personal worldwide legislation addresses delicate facets of non-public standing, household relations, vulnerability, migration, and human rights in transnational contexts. This bold thematic framework led to a workshop of outstanding breadth and variety, gathering students from quite a few Spanish and overseas universities in addition to practitioners who’re actively engaged in cross-border litigation and consultancy. Each audio system and the viewers engaged in energetic discussions round varied sub-topics that spotlight personal worldwide legislation’s human-centred vocation; amongst the latter, the regulation of non-public capability in cross-border conditions; worldwide facets of parenthood; the rights of susceptible individuals; the impression of digitalisation on persona rights; company due-diligence obligations and human-rights accountability in world worth chains; civil legal responsibility of multinational enterprises for human-rights violations; new challenges in immigration legislation; migrants’ rights seen via a private-law lens, and so forth.
After a presentation by the organizers, the e-book begins with the key-note speech, delivered by Nicolas Nord, Professor on the Université de Strasbourg and Secretary Basic of the Worldwide Fee on Civil Standing, “Un Derecho Internacional privado centrado en los derechos de las personas: un análisis transversal, crítico y prospectivo”: a “cross-cutting, essential and forward-looking evaluation” of the e-book´s theme (the sphere “as targeted on the rights of people”) that rightly units the tone and paves the way in which for the three conceptual blocks of shows (spherical tables) that the convention was structured round.The primary spherical desk, “Rights of susceptible individuals”, targeted on the worldwide safety of susceptible people, each minors and dependent adults, and was led by two foremost shows. The primary one by Laura Martínez-Mora Charlebois, Secretary on the Hague Convention on Personal Worldwide Regulation, was entitled “La protección internacional de las personas, en specific los niños, a través de los Convenios de La Haya” (The worldwide safety of individuals, notably kids, via the Hague Conventions), and outlined the function of the Hague devices in safeguarding kids’s rights. The second, by Mónica Herranz Ballesteros (UNED) analysed “La protección de los derechos de los menores y de los adultos en el Derecho Internacional Privado de la Unión Europea” (The safety of the rights of minors and adults within the personal worldwide legislation of the European Union), analyzing how EU private-law measures complement human-rights safety. 5 different papers enriched this session: María González Marimón, “La protección del adulto susceptible en la UE: un principio en construcción” (The safety of susceptible adults within the EU: a precept beneath building); Briseida Sofía Jiménez-Gómez, “Los derechos de protección de datos en Web y la decisión de adecuación con EE.UU.” (Information safety rights on the Web and the “adequacy resolution” vis-à-vis the US); Lidia Moreno Blesa, “La confluencia del Derecho Internacional público y privado en la protección de adultos vulnerables” (The convergence of private and non-private worldwide legislation within the safety of susceptible adults); Natividad Goñi Urriza, “Novedades de la propuesta de Reglamento sobre protección de adultos y competencia judicial internacional” (Novelties within the proposed Regulation on the safety of adults, and worldwide jurisdiction); Raúl Lafuente Sánchez, “Foros competentes y normas de conflicto en la protección de adultos” (Jurisdiction and battle guidelines on grownup safety); and Stefania Pia Perrino, “Publish-mortem copy, filiation and parenthood”. Collectively thought of, these papers illustrated the rising interplay between personal worldwide legislation and different fields of legislation (as for example, knowledge safety, or bioethics) highlighting how the sphere serves as a automobile for the efficient implementation of particular person rights throughout borders.The second spherical desk, “Due diligence, companies, atmosphere and human rights” explored the interaction between company conduct, sustainability, and human-rights accountability from a personal worldwide legislation perspective and started with shows by Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot (Universitat Jaume I) on “Empresas, derechos humanos y acceso: cruzando -de nuevo- el Atlántico” (Enterprise, human rights and entry: crossing the Atlantic as soon as once more), reflecting on comparative experiences of transatlantic litigation, and Antonia Durán Ayago (Universidad de Salamanca) on “Diligencia debida y Derecho Mercantil materialmente orientado hacia la sostenibilidad: implicaciones para el Derecho Internacional Privado europeo” (Due diligence and sustainability-oriented industrial legislation: implications for European personal worldwide legislation), assessing the EU’s tackle regulatory facets of due diligence and sustainability as mixed with personal worldwide legislation. Additional papers included: Laura García Álvarez, on the EU directive on company due diligence and its private-international-law implications (“Extraterritorialidad y competencia judicial internacional en la Directiva de la UE sobre diligencia debida de las empresas en materia de sostenibilidad”); Nerea Magallón Elósegui, on the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 enhancing non-financial reporting requirements (“Un nuevo paso en el camino de la diligencia debida hacia una mayor transparencia de la conducta empresarial: el Reglamento delegado por el que se completa la Directiva 2013/34/UE en lo que respecta a la norma de presentación de información no financiera”); and María Font-Mas, on the Anti-SLAPP Directive and its personal worldwide legislation facets (“La Directiva (UE) 2024/1069 sobre demandas estratégicas contra la participación pública (Anti-SLAPP): aspectos de Derecho Internacional privado”). General, this session underscored the rising convergence between private-law regulation, environmental governance, and human-rights enforcement, stressing personal worldwide legislation’s potential as a device for company accountability and sustainable world commerce.The third and closing spherical desk, “Inmigration via a rights-based perspetive”, examined migration and foreign-national standing via the prism of particular person rights and vulnerability, and was led via shows by Isabel Eugenia Lázaro González (ICADE) on “El derecho a la identidad de los extranjeros y la determinación de la edad” (The best to identification of foreigners and age willpower), addressing authorized and evidentiary points in figuring out minors, and by Carmen Azcárraga Monzonís (Universitat de València) on “Extranjería y violencia contra la mujer” (Immigration legal guidelines and violence towards girls), assessing the evolution and remaining challenges of Article 31 bis of Spain’s Natural Regulation 4/2000. Additional shows enriched the controversy, together with: Lucas Andrés Pérez Martín, “Gestión de niños y niñas migrantes no acompañados” (Administration of unaccompanied migrant kids); Nieves Irene Caballero Pérez, “Los niños invisibles y su reconocimiento jurídico internacional” (Invisible kids and their worldwide authorized recognition); Dulce Margarida de Jesus Lopes, “Matrimonio de menores en el Derecho privado europeo e internacional” (Marriage of minors in European and worldwide personal legislation); Antonio Quirós Fons, “La nueva tarjeta azul y los derechos del inmigrante altamente cualificado” (The brand new blue card and the rights of extremely expert immigrants); Vito Bumbaca, “Protecting coordination for youngsters in search of asylum”; and Carmen Parra Rodríguez, “Acogida acquainted de menores migrantes no acompañados” (Foster take care of unaccompanied migrant kids). This closing spherical desk enshirned the human-rights dimension of migration administration, emphasising how personal worldwide legislation contributes to the popularity of persona, to household unity, and to the procedural safety of migrants and minors.
In a nutshell, the e-book serves as a collective reaffirmation of personal worldwide legislation as a filed of legislation on the service of individuals and their rights, integrating theoretical innovation with sensible dedication to justice in an interconnected world. It additional condenses, black on white, the workshop’s distinctive thematic richness and participation, demonstrating the vitality of the AEPDIRI community and the relevance of personal worldwide legislation to modern human-rights debates.
