Category: Weekend Pursuits

Piketty-Mania Is Reaching Germany. Slowly. By 2015.

The English-language press has been all over the place on Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. It is sold out on amazon.com. But if you are not patient enough to wait for the real thing, you can order an executive summary. Today.

The Washington Post even felt it had to help its readers: To those who do not want to feel any longer like they are the only person who hasn’t weighed in on Thomas Piketty’s book, the Post offered guidance: “How to write a Thomas Piketty think piece, in 10 easy steps.”

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Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop, March 14/15, 2014: The Global Financial Architecture

The Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order, University of Frankfurt, the School of Law, University of Glasgow and the Max Planck Centre for Comparative Public Law and International Law join forces for the 2014 Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop on March 14 and 15, 2014. The workshop on “International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture” will explore the role of international investment law in the current reorganization of the global financial architecture. Hear from the organizers: Read More

Jurablogs 2014

The results for Jurablogs 2014 are out: Dispute Resolution Germany came second in the litigation category, beaten only by the Beck Blog. Many thanks, dear readers, for your votes! Given that Beck Blog is a multi-author blog produced by C.H. Beck, the best-known brand in German legal publishing, I almost feel like having won the gold medal. And last but not least, kudos to Johannes Zöttl of Kartellblog.de for all the effort he put into organizing the poll. Hope he does it again!

 

 

 

Germany’s Best Lawblogs – Poll Closes Tomorrow!

Dispute Resolution Germany has been nominated in the Litigation and Mediation Category of Johannes Zöttl’s Beste Jurablogs 2014 poll. Voting is open until January 31, 2014. Please take a couple of minutes to vote and to have a look at the nominees – a great overview of the German blawg scene. Alongside the domestic categories, there is an Oscar for the Best Foreign Blawg (Sonderpreis Ausland), where the nominees include Ted Folkman’s Letters Blogatory and the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. Have fun!