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.
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Arian Henning’s Verfassungsblog post, “Computer Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and discusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz adopted by the German federal cabinet on 29 July 2026.
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.
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.
Maria Gromova’s article, published on Zenodo, asks whether the type of biological reproductive material used in posthumous reproduction can operate as an independent conflict-of-laws criterion for determining the law applicable to consent.
Nurhan Mousa and Abu Bakr al-Dib examine the legal status of intelligent robots as artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday life and robots can make autonomous decisions. The central problem is whether robots could be granted citizenship and recognised as persons within a legal system.
UNIDROIT on 2026-07-16 published the legal development “Turkish translation of the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law is now available”.
UNCITRAL reported progress in its work on dispute settlement and digital trade at its 59th session. The development is relevant to international arbitration law and the handling of cross-border disputes.
Elisa Ortega Velázquez’s article in the Mexican Law Review argues that US migration governance between 2017 and 2025 moved from coercive securitisation to a hegemonic form of control, spanning Trump’s first presidency, the Biden administration and the opening of Trump’s second presidency.
In an article published in Revue critique de droit international privé, Clémentine Legendre addresses the place of performance under the second indent of Article 7(1)(b) of the Brussels I bis Regulation for contracts concerning the development and ongoing operation of software.
UNCITRAL — News on 2026-07-06 announced the development entitled “UNCITRAL adopts key texts to facilitate use of arbitral awards and notices of arbitration in electronic form”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / UNCITRAL.
R. de Barros Fritz’s article in the June 2026 issue of IPRax addresses how the place where damage occurs is to be located, under the Rome II Regulation, in claims seeking repayment of online-gambling losses.
Bárbara Mota was announced as the winner of the 2026 GLOBALCIT–Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship, and her certificate was handed over at a ceremony in Florence on 14 May during the MPC-GLOBALCIT conference on Architectures of Global Mobility.
Ahmet Sürerdamar’s article in the Public and Private International Law Bulletin addresses online dispute resolution (ODR) in response to the new needs created by digitisation in consumer transactions.
The HCCH held the first meeting of the Working Group on the operation of Article 33 of the 1996 Child Protection Convention online on 8 April 2026, hosted by the Permanent Bureau.
From 30 March to 1 April 2026, the Experts’ Group on Central Bank Digital Currencies held its fifth meeting online, with more than 45 registered delegates and other experts taking part.
Following a March 2025 mandate from the HCCH Council on General Affairs and Policy, the Permanent Bureau is convening online meetings for Central Authorities to exchange experience of the 1965 Service, 1970 Evidence and 1980 Access to Justice Conventions.
Chiara Graziani authored the academic publication “Technosecuritization: Digital Technologies and the Securitization of EU Migration Law” in European Journal of Migration and Law, published on 2026-03-31.
Anna Wysocka-Bar and Sofiya Kernychna’s article in CUADERNOS DE DERECHO TRANSNACIONAL examines the Diia-based mechanism for online marriage registration in Ukraine in the context of digitalisation and martial law, and finds that the legal nature of marriage remains unchanged despite procedural…
This article by Lidia Domínguez Ruiz, published in Cuadernos de Derecho Transnational, addresses cross-border criminal evidence in the European Union from three angles: the most contested practical issues raised by the European Investigation Order, the new European preservation and production…