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.
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On 26 August 2026, the Permanent Bureau of the HCCH published a Note on the application and interpretation of Article 2 of the 1985 Trusts Convention and on institutions analogous to trusts. It addresses the question whether an institution falls within the Convention’s scope.
Franco Ferrari addresses the relationship between uniform substantive law and private international law by asking whether rules were intended to be interpreted and applied in the same way across different legal systems.
On 26 August 2026, Giesela Rühl published a reference entry on the foundational concepts and systematic structure of private international law. The entry appears in Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks.
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.
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.
This article argues that international transport law has been one of the earliest and clearest fields for the use of directly applicable substantive rules.
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.
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.
Elif Selen Batigün’s article in Yildirim Beyazit Hukuk Dergisi addresses the legal character of documentary letters of credit as a method of payment in international trade and the law applicable to that mechanism from both substantive-law and private-international-law perspectives.
T.S. Hudima and Vladyslav Kamyshanskyi’s article in Law and Financial Markets Review addresses the structural tension between sanctions regimes and the decentralised architecture of tokenised assets.
Maria Gromova’s article, published on Zenodo, asks whether the type of biological reproductive material used in posthumous reproduction can operate as an independent conflict-of-laws criterion for determining the law applicable to consent.
The Zenodo article by Dr. Mutiara Hikmah and Artika Nuswaningrum addresses choice of law and choice of forum in Sharia banking contracts with foreign elements, from a private-international-law perspective.
Don S. De Amicis’s article in the Uniform Law Review treats “micro private international law” (micro PIL) as a privately generated, sector-specific transnational legal ordering.
Nesar Ahmad Mohammadi, Teaching Assistant Abdul Basir Nasiri and Dr Sayed Yadullah Gowhari compare the conflict-of-laws rules on personal status in Iran and Afghanistan, addressing marriage, divorce, parent–child relations, guardianship, tutorship and legal capacity.
This Zenodo article offers a comparative analysis of the conflict-of-laws rules governing personal status in the legal systems of Iran and Afghanistan.
The article by Dewa Sukma Kelana, Agus Gandara, Siah Khosyi’ah and Ahmad Fathonih, published in Jurnal Pustaka Cendekia Hukum dan Ilmu Sosial, addresses the distribution of assets in cross-border succession disputes under Islamic law and Indonesian positive law.