This volume brings together contributions from the 5th Young Scholars' Conference on Private International Law in Heidelberg, exploring how digitalisation reshapes conflict of laws and procedure, and offering innovative methodological and regulatory perspectives.

This volume brings together the contributions of early career scholars at the 5th Young Scholars' Conference on Private International and Procedural Law, held in Heidelberg in 2025 under the theme "Digitalisation and PIL: Local Connections in Boundless Spaces." The authors explore how digital technologies challenge the foundations of conflict of laws and procedure. Johannes Weigl and Loïc Bréhin analyse the conflict-of-law dimensions of the EU's digital regulatory framework, from GDPR and the DSA andDMA to the Data Act, DGA and AI Act, and demonstrate how classical methods may still offer solutions. Christina Lemke proposes an innovative application of the lex monetae to the digital euro. Piotr Wilinski, Maciej Durbas and Agatha Brandão investigate the use of artificial intelligence in cross-border legal services, alternative dispute resolution and academic research. Naivi Chikoc Barreda turns to online notarisation, a phenomenon still unfamiliar in Germany but of increasing relevance in transnational practice. Finally, Linda Kuschel and Adrian Hemler emphasise that issues such as electronic service of documents and the exercise of judicial functions abroad require international procedural law to reaffirm its foundations in public international law. The volume demonstrates how digitalisation not only generates technical and regulatory questions but also prompts fundamental methodological questions within private international law.

Autorentext

Anja Sophia Schwemmer (Herausgegeben von)
is a postdoc researcher at the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and Business Law at the University of Heidelberg.

Andreas Engel (Herausgegeben von)
is a postdoc researcher at the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Economic Law, European Law and Comparative Law at the University of Heidelberg and an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute.

Inhalt
Johannes Weigl: Die Grenzenlosigkeit und ihre Grenzen - Skizze eines europäischen Digitalkollisionsrechts - Loïc Bréhin: Conflict of Laws and the Illegality of Content in the DSA: Solving a New Problem with an Old Tool? - Christina M. Lemke: The Digital Euro in Private International Law - One Market, One Currency, One Law? - Piotr Wiliski/Maciej Durbas: "Certainly, I have summarised the case and generated the award; please sign." - Challenges to arbitrators and arbitral awards for the use of artificial intelligence (assistance) - Agatha Brandão/Simon Weigold/Olga Shpakova/Rorick Tovar/Fabian Aiolfi/Dominic McMahon/Daniel Girsberger: Developing a Large Language Model for Swiss Cases on Choice of Law - Empirical Insights and Challenges for Automated Legal Analysis in Private International Law - Naivi Chikoc Barreda: Notarising beyond Borders through Online Appearance: The Rise of Remote Authentic Instruments - Linda Kuschel: Elektronische Zustellungen als Hoheitsakt auf fremdem Territorium?