Francesca Cimino, Beatrice Grasso and Fabio Perocco examine the status and access to social rights of third-country nationals in Italy who are subject to expulsion orders but cannot be returned for legal, practical or policy-related reasons.
migration · return · detention
Academic publicationMigration and foreign nationals lawCanada
Efrat Arbel traces how Canada’s asylum reforms between 2020 and 2026 transformed its refugee-protection system and affected its legal obligations towards asylum seekers.
Radu Bogdan Bobei’s article in the Uniform Law Review argues that transnational law cannot be interpreted in absolute isolation from public international law and conflict-of-laws technique.
Mathias Audit investigates the legal difficulties surrounding investor-State arbitration claims and their assignment. He places those claims in the context of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements, foreign investment codes and domestic investment law.
Miklós Király’s article in the Uniform Law Review compares how interpretation has been regulated across uniform substantive-law instruments on international sales and contracts over roughly nine decades.
Arian Henning’s Verfassungsblog post, “Computer Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and discusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz adopted by the German federal cabinet on 29 July 2026.
This article by Ilke Taşdemir, published in the Journal of international relations and political science studies, addresses climate-change-related migration and the debate on “climate refugees” through the European Union’s role in the context of the United Nations Conferences of the Parties.
This article argues that international transport law has been one of the earliest and clearest fields for the use of directly applicable substantive rules.
The second edition of Research Handbook on EU Private International Law, edited by Youseph Farah and Elisabetta Bergamini, was published by Edward Elgar on 6 August 2026. The volume brings together current issues in EU private international law in a research-handbook format.
Tjaša Ivanc’s monograph chapter addresses the European Certificate of Succession (ECS) as a means by which heirs, legatees and/or an executor may prove their status in cross-border succession matters.
Innocent Tchamgwé’s article in the Uniform Law Review examines the presumption of cessation of payments that follows recognition of a foreign main collective proceeding in the OHADA area. It focuses on procedural coordination, the national judge’s role and questions of legal certainty.
Çağla Ekin Guner investigates how solidarity with refugees became institutionalised at urban level in Hamburg and Izmir, comparing two institutions founded in 2020 that developed from earlier local initiatives.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn’s article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examines how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes through the concept of “limited hybridity.”
Nikita Yu. Chaplin’s article was published in Public international and private international law and addresses unresolved questions in private international law concerning the legal classification of property statutes and their relationship with obligatory statutes.
Mukarrum Ahmed uses business and human rights proceedings brought by persons alleging harm from multinational companies’ overseas conduct to explore the different forms taken by forum (non) conveniens in international litigation.
Mikaeil Safari, Naser Masoudi and Parvin Akbarineh’s article comparatively examines the legal consequences of voidable contracts in common law and whether their functions could be adopted in Iranian law.
This article by Badreddine Berrahlia, Yassine Chami, Fatma B. Lalaymia and Naufal Rizqiyanto was published in the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction.
Mohamed F. Sweify’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration addresses the legal framework applicable to foreign investors operating in Egypt’s energy and minerals sector.
Baffour Yiadom-Boakye addresses how the boundaries of arbitrability are determined in Ghanaian international arbitration and how those boundaries affect recognition of arbitration agreements and recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.
Yusuke Tanemura’s “Comments: A Study on Consumer Protection and Overriding Mandatory Rules” was published open access in Waseda University’s Institute of Comparative Law Online Forum Series on 1 August 2026.
Nadia Darwazeh and Rémi Sassine’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration addresses irreparable or irremediable harm as a condition for interim measures in international arbitration.