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While the world was looking towards Paris, there was another election that was taking place on Germany’s coast. Germany’s Social Democrats lose control of a pivotal state, at the worst possible time.

Albert Camus famously wrote that ‘life is the sum of all your choices.’ Private lawyers could not agree more. At the core of private law lies the idea that individuals are allowed to know better than the State.

Last February, the Court of Justice (CoJ) received a notable appeal against an order of the General Court (GC) in Case T-479/14 Kendrion. There are various notable and interesting aspects to the appeal case but the most eye-catching one concerns the appellant: the Court of Justice of the European...

Succession Regulation - a European Union instrument which primary aim it is to offer a choice of law to accommodate EU Citizens in intra-Union succession cases, whereby Member States are given a set of tools to circumvent the main aspects of its applicationa European Union instrument which primary...