This article by Leonhard Hübner examines the dual-track structure of European private international law. It was published in Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht.
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Sören Segger-Piening’s article addresses the basic structures of conflict of laws in digitalisation through the GDPR, Data Act, DSA, DMA and AI Regulation. It focuses on the conflict-of-laws questions raised by these EU instruments in digital relationships.
Jan Peter Schmidt authored the academic publication “Buschmann, Juliane: Die Bestimmung des gewöhnlichen Aufenthalts schutzbedürftiger Erwachsener im internationalen Erb- und Betreuungsrecht.
An academic article by Jürgen Samtleben examining the private international law of Colombia. The article was published in Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht.
According to an HCCH notice, the Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children entered into force for the Argentine Republic on 1 January 2026.
Aukje Mens’s 2026 article addresses the place of adoption in the proposal for a European Parenthood Regulation and the uncertainties that remain around it.
The article considers how the European Succession Regulation interacts with Spain’s coexisting civil law systems, using decisions of the Dirección General de Seguridad y Fe Pública from the Regulation’s first ten years of application.
Eduardo Álvarez Armas’s article examines how Spanish courts applied the Brussels I bis Regulation between 2015 and 2025. It updates an analysis prepared for a national report in 2022 to 1 August 2025 and considers the development of the data where relevant.
Antonia Durán Ayago’s article in the Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado argues that the Spanish Supreme Court Civil Chamber is wrong in its approach to parentage created through surrogacy abroad, and that the French Cour de cassation adopts the sounder line by allowing recognition…
In an article published in Inönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Aynaz Ugur addresses the determination of the applicable law for collective labour agreements involving a foreign element.
Sibel Özel authored the academic publication “An Examination of the Choice of Law Rules Governing the Applicable Law to the Matrimonial Property Regime” in Istanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, published on 2025-12-31.
Elif Selen Batigün’s article in the Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi dergisi addresses how the applicable law should be determined, from the perspective of Turkish private international law, for claims arising from competition-restrictive agreements involving a foreign element.
This article addresses the proprietary status of integral parts in private international law, focusing on the exception created by Article 19/2 of the Financial Leasing, Factoring, Financing and Savings Financing Companies Law to the rule that no separate real right may be established over an…
Determining the law applicable to property regimes with a foreign element is difficult in practice because legal systems differ in how they structure matrimonial property.
Claire Konerza’s Journal of Air Law and Commerce comment addresses the growing cybersecurity risks in civil aviation and the part played by third-party software service providers in creating or mitigating those risks.
Özge Demirdelen’s article, published in the journal of Erzincan Binali Yildirim University Faculty of Law, discusses carbon markets and the private-international-law dimension of carbon credits alongside UNIDROIT’s Verified Carbon Credits (VCC) Project.
The HCCH Experts’ Group on Digital Tokens met for the second time in hybrid format from 18 to 20 November 2025, with more than 50 delegates and experts, together with members of the HCCH Permanent Bureau.
The HCCH Working Group on Parentage / Surrogacy met for the fifth time from 10 to 14 November 2025 in hybrid format, with more than 45 registered delegates and experts representing 24 HCCH Members and three Observers, alongside members of the Permanent Bureau.
The article addresses the relationship between fairness in private international law and the interests it seeks to accommodate, discussing party interest, order interest, transaction interest, substantive legal justice and state interest through the lens of equity.
Lena-Maria Möller’s article, published in the Arab Law Quarterly, examines jurisdictional and legal conflicts in the United Arab Emirates’ federal family law system.