The HCCH Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) has published the Conclusions & Decisions adopted at its 3–6 March 2026 meeting, now available in English, French and Spanish.
A. Kübra Altiparmak Elmas’s article in Terazi Hukuk Dergisi addresses the law applicable to contractual obligations under Article 24 of the Turkish Private International Law and Procedural Law Act (MÖHUK), comparing that provision with the Rome I Regulation and the Rome Convention.
Talat Kaya authored the academic publication “Pursuit of Balance Regarding the Law Applicable to Employment Contracts with a Foreign Element: Evaluations Following the Amendment Introduced by Law No. 7550 Dated June 4, 2025” in Anadolu Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, published on 2026-02-13.
This article addresses a child born through surrogacy seeking a certificate of inheritance from Turkish courts and examines how the parentage link should be treated as a preliminary question in cases with a foreign element.
The article examines the law applicable to the determination and change of the names of natural persons in Belgian private international law, in the light of the 2017 amendments to the Belgian Code of Private International Law and recent case law.
The article addresses the formal validity of proxy marriages concluded abroad and their recognition through marriage registration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The author examines the application of foreign law as one of the most difficult areas of Turkish private international law and analyses the Court of Cassation’s changing approach, particularly after 2023, in decisions given under Article 2 of Law No. 5718.
The article by Kaan Karaaslan and Güven Yarar, published in Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, examines the procedure for foreign companies opening branches in Türkiye through the lens of conflict of laws.
This article by EKIN DENIZ ILHAN, published in Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, addresses the law applicable to the carrier’s right of retention in disputes with a foreign element.
Elif Selen Batigün’s article in the Akdeniz University Faculty of Law Journal addresses fraud against the law (fraus legis) in private international law from the standpoint of Turkish law and in comparative perspective.
BÜŞRA ÖÇAL authored the academic publication “From Lex Mercatoria to Lex Cryptographia: The Nature of the Law to Be Applied” in Türkiye Adalet Akademisi Dergisi, published on 2026-01-21. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning Türkiye.
Ömer Uğur authored the academic publication “An Assessment of the Amendment Introduced by Law No. 7550 to the Conflict of Laws Rules Applicable to Employment Contracts” in Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Hukuk Araştirmalari Dergisi, published on 2026-01-07.
Denise Wiedemann examines the problem of achieving temporal fairness when determining connecting factors in the European Union’s international matrimonial property law. The work focuses on the temporal criteria used to connect a matrimonial property regime with the applicable law.
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.
Nicole Štýbnarová’s article in The American Journal of Comparative Law examines the economic functions of regulating transnational marriages and of the legal argumentation surrounding them.
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…