Marburg Group?s Comments on the European Commission?s Parenthood Proposal. This item is unavailable.Marburg Group?s Comments on the European Commission?s Parenthood Proposal

On 7 December 2022, the European Commission published a Proposal for a private international law Regulation on parenthood. In the book, the Marburg Group—a group of German private international law scholars—undertakes the first extensive and in-depth assessment of the Parenthood Proposal. While the Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission and embraces the overall structure of the Parenthood Proposal, it suggests several fundamental changes.

Konrad Duden is Professor in private law and private international law, as well as the Director of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg (Germany) (2012– 2022). He completed his studies at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bilbao and Cambridge (Germany, Spain, United Kingdom). He has been a visiting fellow inter alia at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). Claudia Mayer is Professor in private law and private international law at the University of Regensburg (Germany) since 2018. Prior to this, she held the chair in private law and German and international civil procedure law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tü bingen (Germany) (2017– 2018). She completed her academic career at the universities of Passau (Germany) (2008– 2017) and Chicago (United States) (2011– 2012). Claudia is editor of the Zeitschrift fü r das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ). Christine Budzikiewicz is Professor in private law, private international and European law, as well as comparative law and co-director of the Institute of Family Law at the University of Marburg (Germany). In 2008/2009, she was a visiting fellow at the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (Netherlands). Christine is co-editor of the journal Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) and co-organiser of the ‘ Dialog Internationales Familienrecht’ , an annual conference for the exchange between academia and practice on current issues of international family law Anatol Dutta is Professor in private law, private international law and comparative law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany). Previously, he was Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg (2003– 2014) and Professor at the University of Regensburg (Germany) (2014– 2017). In 2009, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and a scholar-in-residence at New York University (United States) in 2024. Tobias Helms is Professor in private law, private international law and comparative law at the University of Marburg (Germany) and co-director of the Institute of Family Law. Tobias is Vice-President of the German Academic Society for Family Law, member of the Children’ s Rights Commission of the German Family Court Association and member of the German Council of International Private Law. In 2021/2022, he was a member of the Expert Group of the European Commission on the recognition of parenthood between Member States.