Registration is open for the 14th International Forum on the HCCH electronic Apostille Programme (e-APP). The forum concerns cross-border authentication of documents and sits within international civil procedure.
Bilge Kagan Cevik and Pelin Baysal’s article in Arbitration International addresses the growing use of artificial intelligence in international arbitration through the idea of “good friction”.
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.
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.
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.
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…
The HCCH Permanent Bureau has announced the completion of the e-Country Profiles project and the development and modernisation of online Country Profiles for the 1965 Service Convention, the 1970 Evidence Convention, the 1980 Child Abduction Convention and the 1993 Adoption Convention.
Claire Konerza’s Journal of Air Law and Commerce comment addresses the growing cybersecurity risks in civil aviation and the part played by third-party software service providers in creating or mitigating those risks.
This article on administrative detention and its alternatives in Turkish foreigners law explains that the 2014 Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) gave administrative detention a detailed statutory basis, yet practical problems concerning the right to liberty persisted.
The HCCH Working Group held its third meeting online on 1 December 2025, hosted by the Permanent Bureau, to bring the Good Practices document for the 1965 Service, 1970 Evidence and 1980 Access to Justice Conventions to completion.
The HCCH Working Party met online on cross-border family mediation in the context of the Malta Process, with child abduction among the topics addressed. In private international law terms, the record concerns mediation and judicial cooperation in cross-border family disputes.
On 25 November 2025, the Working Group held its third online meeting, hosted by the HCCH Permanent Bureau, to advance the finalisation of the model forms for Chapter II of the 1970 Evidence Convention.
The HCCH Experts’ Group on Digital Tokens met for the second time in hybrid format from 18 to 20 November 2025, with more than 50 delegates and experts, together with members of the HCCH Permanent Bureau.
The HCCH Permanent Bureau has announced that registration is now open for the book launch celebrating the publication of The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements: A Commentary.
The article addresses the relationship between fairness in private international law and the interests it seeks to accommodate, discussing party interest, order interest, transaction interest, substantive legal justice and state interest through the lens of equity.
UNCITRAL has announced that Kyrgyzstan has become a State party to the Singapore Convention on Mediation, taking the number of States parties to 20. The announcement concerns the international framework for the recognition and enforcement of mediated settlement agreements in cross-border disputes.
The Working Group established to finalise the Good Practices document for the 1965 Service, 1970 Evidence and 1980 Access to Justice Conventions held its second meeting online, hosted by the Permanent Bureau.
The HCCH’s second meeting of the Working Group on the study relating to institutions analogous to trusts took place online on 6 and 7 October 2025, hosted by the Permanent Bureau.
Aslihan Çoban’s article, published in Başkent Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi on 2 October 2025, addresses the application of the law of the place of acquisition to product liability under Article 36 of the Turkish Code on Private International Law and Procedural Law (MÖHUK) from a…