The HCCH’s Experts’ Group on the International Transfer of Maintenance Funds held its seventh meeting online from 2 to 4 February 2026, hosted by the Permanent Bureau.
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.
Özmen, Ayşenur Zeynep's academic work “Open Skies Regimes in International Air Law and Archipelagic States: The Case of ASEAN” was published in Ankara Haci Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 30 No.
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.
Recognition of a foreign arbitral award carries its res judicata effect into the state where recognition is sought, without depending on enforcement; Candan Yasan’s article in Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi addresses whether that request may be raised within proceedings already…
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.
Murat Emre Keküllüoğlu authored the academic publication “The Application of the Requirement of Being a Merchant under Article 17 of the Turkish Code of Civil Procedure in Terms of International Jurisdiction Agreements” in Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, published on 2026-01-23.
Published in the Akdeniz University Faculty of Law Review, this article by Can Yöney addresses the application of Articles 17 and 18 of the Turkish Code of Civil Procedure to international jurisdiction agreements conferring jurisdiction on Turkish courts.
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.
Egypt signed the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 13 January 2026.
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.
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.
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…
Lorena Sales Pallarés’s 2025 article considers the spread of strategic litigation from established fields such as environmental protection and human rights into data protection, consumer law and corporate accountability.
In an article published in Inönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Aynaz Ugur addresses the determination of the applicable law for collective labour agreements involving a foreign element.
This article focuses on the citizenship of children born through cross-border surrogacy. It notes the difficulties created by Turkey’s prohibition of surrogacy, the widespread application of the mater semper certa est rule, and the lack of international regulation on parentage in such cases.
Sibel Özel authored the academic publication “An Examination of the Choice of Law Rules Governing the Applicable Law to the Matrimonial Property Regime” in Istanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, published on 2025-12-31.