Oman ratified the Singapore Convention on Mediation on 17 February 2026. The step concerns the cross-border enforceability of mediated settlement agreements within private international law and international dispute resolution.
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Şule Arslan’s article in the Public and Private International Law Bulletin assesses the protection of the right of residence of foreigners and their family members in Türkiye in the light of European Union regulations.
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.
This article by Zeynep Derya Tarman and Meltem Ece Oba examines the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Grand Chamber judgment of 16 January 2024 in Case C-621/21 in the context of international protection for women victims of gender-based violence.
Denise Wiedemann examines the problem of achieving temporal fairness when determining connecting factors in the European Union’s international matrimonial property law. The work focuses on the temporal criteria used to connect a matrimonial property regime with the applicable law.
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.
Bronwen Manby’s article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly examines normative developments in international law on nationality since 2005.
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.
The article considers how the European Succession Regulation interacts with Spain’s coexisting civil law systems, using decisions of the Dirección General de Seguridad y Fe Pública from the Regulation’s first ten years of application.
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.
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.
Elif Selen Batigün’s article in the Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi dergisi addresses how the applicable law should be determined, from the perspective of Turkish private international law, for claims arising from competition-restrictive agreements involving a foreign element.
Determining the law applicable to property regimes with a foreign element is difficult in practice because legal systems differ in how they structure matrimonial property.
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.
Hacer Ülkü’s article, published on 2 October 2025, addresses how the applicable law is determined in personal-data protection disputes with a foreign element by comparing Turkish law with European Union law.
According to the HCCH notice, the Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance entered into force for Denmark on 1 October 2025, following Denmark’s deposit of its instrument of ratification on 30 June 2025.
Erman Eroglu examines the legal problem of determining the applicable law to cross-border competition infringements and the circumstances in which a state may exercise jurisdiction over conduct taking place abroad.
UNCITRAL on 2025-09-29 announced the development entitled “Iran ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / UNCITRAL.
Meydanci, Burak authored the academic publication “International Jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court with Respect to Non-Contracting States” in Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 15 No.
Bianca Scraback’s article in the Journal of Private International Law addresses the international-element requirement for jurisdiction over consumer contracts under the Brussels Ia Regulation.
Katja H. Brecke’s article in Air and Space Law critically reviews Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, identified in the source as the European Passenger Rights Regulation.
The European Union has approved the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration. The development concerns transparency in investor-State arbitration within international arbitration law.