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.
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.
Sara Park’s book chapter, published on 19 August 2026, explores Japan’s Nationality Act at the intersection of family, migration and national identity.
Emil Śliwiński examines how terrorism-based deprivation of citizenship should be assessed for proportionality under the European Convention on Human Rights. The article compares ECtHR cases involving citizenship deprivation on terrorism grounds with citizenship case law arising in other contexts.
Vanessa Ruget analyses how Russia’s 2023 citizenship law and several subsequent decrees instrumentalise citizenship. The framework reshapes naturalisation through a new civics test, revised oath-of-allegiance requirements, compulsory military registration and an emphasis on “traditional” values.
Justin Robertson traces how investment migrants acquire foreign status, second passports and residencies while continuing to live in China. The analysis connects this practice of “migration without leaving” with household registration, capital transfers and the regulation of investment migration.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Nhung and Thao Ngo Minh Phuong consider how Vietnamese private international law affects women’s rights in marriage and family relationships involving foreign elements, using a feminist legal-theory perspective.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The article addresses how third-party funding (TPF) can widen access to international arbitration while creating risks for cost recovery and procedural balance, including situations where respondents face substantial exposure if funded claimants cannot satisfy adverse awards.
UNIDROIT has announced that the integral Ukrainian translation of the 2010 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts is now available on its website.
In an article published in the Türkiye Adalet Akademisi Dergisi, Şule Arslan addresses limits on the acquisition of nationality by birth in Turkish nationality law.
Filip Vlček’s article in Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi offers a quantitative and qualitative study of all preliminary references on private international and procedural law made by Czech courts between 2004 and 2024.
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.
In an article published in the Netherlands International Law Review, Christian Riffel considers how exception clauses shape the balance between investor rights and regulatory freedom in international investment law.
Mohamed A M Ismail’s peer-reviewed article in the Uniform Law Review addresses the role of the UPICC in preserving, and where necessary restoring, economic equilibrium in international investment contracts (IICs).