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.
Yahya Ali Ansyah and Atikah Rahmi address the legal problem faced by foreign-national heirs seeking to acquire immovable estate property in Indonesia. Their analysis focuses on the interaction between inheritance rules and restrictions on foreign ownership of land.
Conflict of Laws issued a call for papers on 24 August 2026 for the Third Conflict of Laws Annual Workshop (CLAW3). The call concerns submissions of academic research in the field of conflict of laws.
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.
Mauritius ratified the Singapore Convention on Mediation on 17 August 2026, as announced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The Convention establishes a framework for relying on and enforcing international mediated settlement agreements across borders.
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.
According to the official HCCH news item, the Republic of Indonesia deposited its instrument of acceptance of the HCCH Statute on 11 August 2026, thereby becoming the 94th Member of the HCCH.
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.
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.