Issue 02 · August ’26

August’s issue contains 30 records: 28 academic publications and two legal developments, making it a publication-led month. The largest clusters are in conflict of laws and the law of foreigners. Nationality law forms a distinct secondary centre, while international civil procedure and international arbitration law appear in smaller numbers. The month’s two concrete developments are the HCCH Note on Article 2 of the 1985 Trusts Convention and Mauritius’s ratification of the Singapore Convention on Mediation. The issue is therefore less about a single operative change than about scholarship addressing citizenship and migration status alongside applicable law in contractual and commercial relationships.[01][02][03][04]

Publications on nationality and the law of foreigners approach, from different settings, the questions of how status is acquired, lost or rendered practically uncertain. In “Family, Migration and Belonging in Japan’s Nationality Act”, Sara Park examines the relationship between descent, family registration and multiple nationality. Vanessa Ruget’s “The securitisation of citizenship in Russia’s 2023 regime” considers naturalisation requirements and denaturalisation alongside military mobilisation and political loyalty. The status and access to social rights of non-returnable third-country nationals in Italy illustrates the distinction between expulsion and regular or international-protection status. The study of Canada’s asylum reforms likewise considers border measures, direct-backs and refugee-protection obligations together.