This book chapter by Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou appears in The Practice of Interpretation in International Law and examines methods of interpretation in international investment law.
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.
Francesco Spera addresses how the European Union’s use of soft-law instruments in responding externally to migration and asylum crises relates to the principles of the Treaties and the integration process.
Gábor Levente Kozma and Murilo Lubambo de Melo address how the European Union and England and Wales can constrain cross-border SLAPPs, focusing on the allocation of international jurisdiction. They also consider the recognition and enforcement of decisions arising from such proceedings.
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.
Jade Roberts examines the legality of the United Arab Emirates’ 2008 arrangement with the Comoros to provide Comorian passports to the UAE’s stateless bidun population.
Justin Robertson traces how investment migrants acquire foreign status, second passports and residencies while continuing to live in China. The analysis connects this practice of “migration without leaving” with household registration, capital transfers and the regulation of investment migration.
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.
Francesca Cimino, Beatrice Grasso and Fabio Perocco examine the status and access to social rights of third-country nationals in Italy who are subject to expulsion orders but cannot be returned for legal, practical or policy-related reasons.
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.
Mathias Audit investigates the legal difficulties surrounding investor-State arbitration claims and their assignment. He places those claims in the context of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements, foreign investment codes and domestic investment law.
This article by Ilke Taşdemir, published in the Journal of international relations and political science studies, addresses climate-change-related migration and the debate on “climate refugees” through the European Union’s role in the context of the United Nations Conferences of the Parties.
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.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn’s article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examines how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes through the concept of “limited hybridity.”
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.
Mohamed F. Sweify’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration addresses the legal framework applicable to foreign investors operating in Egypt’s energy and minerals sector.
The Crown Prosecution Service has announced that ten people have now received prison sentences for endangering others during small-boat crossings of the Channel.
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.