PIL.OT BULLETIN

Issue 01 · July ’26

July ’26 · PIL.OT (Private International Law Observatory & Tracker) Bulletin

PIL.OT-selected legal developments, academic publications, calls and events.

Published: 4 August 202667 published recordsTR / EN

00 / IN THIS ISSUE

The record at a glance

The contents of this issue are arranged by field of law and record type.

67Total records

12Legal developments

51Academic publications

04Calls and events

39Countries / jurisdictions

67Source records

◉ / MONTHLY RADAR

A concise reading of the issue and its highlighted records.

◇ / PREVAILING WINDS

Prevailing Winds does not repeat Monthly Radar; it maps the distribution of legal relationships in the issue and the supported junctions between relationships addressed in the same records. Node size shows how many records contain a relationship, while lines show how many records address two relationships together. When scholarship dominates an issue, the network should be read as a map of scholarly attention rather than a direction of legal change.

Network reading

The network does not collapse into a single dominant heading; Contracts and commercial relationships (22), Procedure, recognition and enforcement (21), Arbitration and dispute resolution (17) emerge with comparable weight. The strongest supported junction is between contracts and commercial relationships and procedure, recognition and enforcement: the two relationships are addressed together in 9 records. This map primarily reflects the distribution of scholarly attention: the issue contains 51 academic publications, compared with 12 legal developments and 4 call/event records. Node density should therefore not be read as a trend in legal change.

I / FIELDS OF LAW

Choose a field to open its developments, scholarship and calendar records.

01Conflict of lawsJudgments and decisions 1 · Academic publications 21 · Conferences and seminars 224records

Judgments and decisions

01Judgments and decisionsSource language: EnglishEuropean UnionDate of development: 15 July 2026

CJEU Considers Geo-Blocking in a Copyright Dispute

This CJEU development on the Anne Frank copyright decision examines the use of geo-blocking to shield a website from the copyright laws of another EU Member State. It sits within conflict of laws, in the cross-border application of copyright rules.

conflict of lawscourt decisionsintellectual propertydigitalisationacademic researchcross-border relationsEU private international lawlegislation

Author / contributor: Graham Smith
Publication / institution: Conflict of Laws

Discovery sourceCopyright, Targeting and Geo-Blocking: The CJEU Stirs the Pot↗Primary sourceRecent copyright decision in Anne Frank↗

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Issue 01 · July ’26

The record at a glance

◉ / MONTHLY RADAR

◇ / PREVAILING WINDS

I / FIELDS OF LAW

Judgments and decisions

CJEU Considers Geo-Blocking in a Copyright Dispute

Academic publications

Conferences and seminars

European Commission infringement proceedings (letters of formal

Commission opens infringement proceedings over incomplete transposition of the Anti-SLAPP Directive

Lawsuits

Three lawsuits against Meta Inc. Are pending in Kenyan courts

Judgments and decisions

German Federal Court of Justice on recognition in cross-border surrogacy

Court of Justice of the EU on judicial assistance in taking evidence and a request to exhume a body

ECtHR Grand Chamber referral

ECtHR refers Z and Others v. Finland to the Grand Chamber

International instruments

1961 Apostille Convention Enters into Force for Algeria

Academic publications

Academic publications

Conferences and seminars

Judgments and decisions

Supreme Court hears Akbars Restaurant appeal on reasons for a civil penalty notice

Effective remedy against a return decision based on classified information concerning an EU citizen child and a third-country national

Official press release

A UK official press release reports convictions of gang members for people smuggling

Academic publications

Press release

UNCITRAL Adopts Texts Facilitating the Use of Arbitral Awards and Notices of Arbitration in Electronic Form

Academic publications

Conferences and seminars

Academic publications

C-196/24 Aucrinde: Preliminary ruling on Article 12 of the Taking of Evidence Regulation