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.
UNIDROIT has announced that the integral Ukrainian translation of the 2010 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts is now available on its website.
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.
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.
Aurora Hernández Rodríguez considers the establishment of non-marital paternity for a child born in Prague through surrogacy, the determination of surnames on registration of the birth in the Spanish Civil Register, and the restricted-publicity regime.
Víctor Hugo Ramírez García’s article in the JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies analyses the European Union proposal on the mutual recognition of parenthood as a case through which to examine how European integration proceeds in politically sensitive fields such as family law.
the academic publication “Research Handbook on EU Private International Law” in UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia), published on 2026-07-28. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning European Union.
International surrogacy has expanded alongside medical technology and the differing rules that states apply to surrogacy and legal parentage, giving rise to cross-border disputes.
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.
The article addresses the doctrine of forum necessitatis from a comparative-law perspective, explaining how a court that would otherwise lack jurisdiction in a dispute with a foreign element may exceptionally assume jurisdiction so that the claimant’s right of access to court is not defeated.
Stefan Huber authored the academic publication “Transnational Commercial Law Teachers’ Meeting 2025: enforcement and interpretation” in Uniform Law Review, published on 2026-07-20. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning International.
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.
UNIDROIT on 2026-07-16 published the legal development “Turkish translation of the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law is now available”.
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.
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg’s article in Scandinavian Studies in Law addresses how human rights are applied in cross-border family matters and what this means for the mission of private international law, with particular reference to women’s rights.
Peter Arnt Nielsen’s article in Scandinavian Studies in Law addresses blocking statutes in the context of private international law. It touches on conflict of laws, arbitration, contracts, court decisions and EU private international law.