The HCCH Experts’ Group on Parentage / Surrogacy held its twelfth meeting from 17 to 21 October 2022 in hybrid format. It brought together 34 experts, including 15 who attended in person, representing 23 Member States, one Member Regional Economic Integration Organisation and two Observers.
The ASEAN record identifies a Protocol implementing the twelfth package of commitments on air transport services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services.
HCCH News on 2022-10-04 announced the development entitled “Cabo Verde accedes to the Child Abduction and Child Protection Conventions”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of Cabo Verde / HCCH.
HCCH News on 2022-10-01 announced the development entitled “Child Support Convention enters into force for the Philippines”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of Philippines / HCCH.
Özel, Sibel's academic work “Determination of the Applicable Law in Private International Law on the Basis of Lex Fori” was published in Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Hukuk Araştirmalari Dergisi, Vol. 28 No.
Hakki Mert Doğu examines the anatomy contract, through which a person leaves their body after death to an institution for scientific examination and research.
The article starts from PILA Article 20/1, under which succession is governed by the deceased’s national law, while Turkish law applies to immovable property in Turkey.
HCCH on 2022-05-19 announced the development entitled “First Meeting of the Special Commission on the Practical Operation of the 2007 Child Support Convention and 2007 Maintenance Obligations Protocol”.
This article examines the role of transnational corporations in environmental pollution in Vietnam and the potential of private international law to contribute to environmental protection.
The article examines choice-of-law clauses in the printed foreign service contracts prepared by the Turkish Employment Agency for workers taken from Türkiye to perform work undertaken abroad by Turkish entrepreneurs.
HCCH on 2022-03-28 announced the development entitled “Eleventh meeting of the Experts’ Group on Parentage / Surrogacy”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / HCCH.
HCCH on 2022-03-16 published the legal development “Information Note - Children deprived of their family environment due to the armed conflict in Ukraine”.
The article addresses the connecting rule that arises from the extraterritorial application of competition rules and the criterion of direct effect on the market.
Johannes Ungerer’s article in Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht applies behavioural economics to private international law and argues for a more realistic account of connecting factors that takes bounded rationality into view.
Tenth meeting of the Experts’ Group on Parentage / Surrogacy on 2021-11-22 published the legal development “Tenth meeting of the Experts’ Group on Parentage / Surrogacy”.
On 8 November 2021, the HCCH Working Group on Preventing and Addressing Illicit Practices in Intercountry Adoption met by videoconference. The meeting was attended by 43 participants representing 22 States, four Observers and members of the HCCH Permanent Bureau.