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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuulikki Mikkola; Fanni Aarniva authored the academic publication “Recognition of Foreign Marriages and Ordre Public in Finnish Private International Law” in Scandinavian studies in law, published on 2026-07-12.
Sinan Can Konyali’s article in the Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi addresses the applicable-law problem that arose after the Constitutional Court annulled Article 27/1 of the MÖHUK and after the amendments made by Law No. 7550.
Sylvain Bollée argues that the classification of a sub-purchaser’s direct action against a manufacturer as a non-contractual obligation for jurisdictional purposes should also govern the determination of the applicable law.