In mid-June 2026, the European Parliament gave its final approval to amendments to the EU rules on the return of third-country nationals staying irregularly in Union territory, by 418 votes to 218 with 30 abstentions.
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HCCH — News on 27 October announced the development entitled “Canada ratifies and Kyrgyzstan accedes to the Child Support Convention”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / HCCH.
This book chapter by Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou appears in The Practice of Interpretation in International Law and examines methods of interpretation in international investment law.
Deniz Defne Kirli Aydemir’s article in the Kadir Has University Faculty of Law Journal considers evasion of law from the standpoint of private international law and conflict-of-laws rules.
A conference will be held on 27 October 2026 to present a thematic review of the Italian Court of Cassation’s (Corte di cassazione) case law on international protection and immigration.
Iacopo Andrea Accolla assesses mechanisms that refer tax-related investment claims to competent authorities before arbitration to protect States’ fiscal sovereignty, alongside a mediation-based alternative.
Claudia Wendrich analyses how some EU Member States seek to extend the jurisdictional objection based on the incompatibility of intra-EU investment arbitration with EU law to extra-EU investment arbitrations.
Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi considers how state immunity can impede recognition and enforcement of investor-state arbitral awards through US, UK and Australian cases from 1 January 2020 onwards.
Jessica Shurson addresses the position of service providers ordered to disclose digital evidence in one country while another country’s law prohibits disclosure.
Hélène Lambert and Jules Lepoutre investigate the obligations France bears after signing, but not ratifying, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Mallika Tamvada investigates why victims of human rights and environmental harms caused by transnational corporations struggle to obtain effective remedies, shifting the focus from mandatory corporate regulation to access to justice.
Mohamed Kamal Arafa El-Rakhawi sets out a theoretical framework, in six volumes and 30 chapters, that aims to modernise private international law for the twenty-first century.
Evi Harianti and Jihan Shafa Salsabila write about interfaith marriages solemnised abroad, which the abstract describes as raising legal problems at the intersection of marriage law, population administration and private international law.
Lamis Qadir Hadi addresses the fragmentation that arises when national courts interpret international private-law conventions through domestic procedural and substantive concepts.
Sh. Batirov addresses the legal regulation of international construction contracting agreements under conditions of digitalisation in the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the problems of determining jurisdiction over them.
Amanda Dager approaches international divorce as a reconfiguration of family mobility, arguing that jurisdiction, applicable law, the international effectiveness of decisions and immigration dependencies need to be analysed together.
Muhammad Asif and Maria Arshad investigate how Scots private law treats artificial intelligence and crypto-assets, distinguishing property status from the rules needed to give it practical effect.
Amanda Dager examines how international mobility has tied private family relations to several State legal orders at once, producing conflicts that cannot be resolved merely by identifying the applicable law.
Nobumichi Teramura and Luke Nottage trace the Sulu Sultan's heirs' claim against Malaysia as successor to the British North Borneo Company under an 1878 concession agreement.
Obidjonova Sevaraxon Baxodirjon qizi investigates the national and private international law foundations on which contractual relations in electronic commerce can be regulated, using Uzbek legislation as the point of departure.
Cayetana Santaolalla Montoya reads the November 2022 FTX bankruptcy, in which around one million creditors found that assets they believed they owned had been used for speculative trading without their consent, and the ruling in Celsius that its Terms of Use transferred ownership of deposited…
Eufemia Sánchez Borja and Zaira Novoa Rodríguez analyse the dynamics of crimmigration in South America through a comparison of Argentina, Ecuador and Chile.
UJ Press, the University of Johannesburg's RCPILEC and the editors will hold an online launch of Commercial Private International Law in Southern Africa, honouring Christopher F. Forsyth, on 19 October 2026. The event runs from 13:00 to 14:00 SAST, or 14:00 to 15:00 in Türkiye.
Gohar Grigoryan's article examines the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial acts in insolvency proceedings, focusing on the determination of the object of recognition.