In mid-June 2026, the European Parliament gave its final approval to amendments to the EU rules on the return of third-country nationals staying irregularly in Union territory, by 418 votes to 218 with 30 abstentions.
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HCCH — News on 27 October announced the development entitled “Canada ratifies and Kyrgyzstan accedes to the Child Support Convention”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / HCCH.
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.
Ingrid V Eagly addresses the difficulties unaccompanied migrant children face in accessing legal information, guardians and free legal assistance during international-protection and status-regularisation procedures in EU Member States.
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.
The second edition of Research Handbook on EU Private International Law, edited by Youseph Farah and Elisabetta Bergamini, was published by Edward Elgar on 6 August 2026. The volume brings together current issues in EU private international law in a research-handbook format.
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.
Yusuke Tanemura’s “Comments: A Study on Consumer Protection and Overriding Mandatory Rules” was published open access in Waseda University’s Institute of Comparative Law Online Forum Series on 1 August 2026.
This article by Sinan Veziroğlu and Mustafa Atatorun examines European Union refugee policy from a normative perspective. It is an academic contribution situated at the intersection of refugee status, international protection and the private international law dimension of aliens law.
Lokman Burak Cetinkaya and Muhammed Furkan Arik examine the duties and powers that the Chicago Convention assigns to ICAO, particularly its Council, in civil aviation disputes between States parties.
Filip Vlček’s article in Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi offers a quantitative and qualitative study of all preliminary references on private international and procedural law made by Czech courts between 2004 and 2024.
Víctor Hugo Ramírez García’s article in the JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies analyses the European Union proposal on the mutual recognition of parenthood as a case through which to examine how European integration proceeds in politically sensitive fields such as family law.
the academic publication “Research Handbook on EU Private International Law” in UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia), published on 2026-07-28. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning European Union.
The article addresses the doctrine of forum necessitatis from a comparative-law perspective, explaining how a court that would otherwise lack jurisdiction in a dispute with a foreign element may exceptionally assume jurisdiction so that the claimant’s right of access to court is not defeated.
Peter Arnt Nielsen’s article in Scandinavian Studies in Law addresses blocking statutes in the context of private international law. It touches on conflict of laws, arbitration, contracts, court decisions and EU private international law.
Dr Emilie McDonnell authored the academic publication “EU Externalised Migration Control and the Right to Leave” in EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, published on 2026-07-08. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning European Union.
Sylvain Bollée argues that the classification of a sub-purchaser’s direct action against a manufacturer as a non-contractual obligation for jurisdictional purposes should also govern the determination of the applicable law.
Antoine d’Ornano’s article in the Revue critique de droit international privé addresses the new questions raised by the exequatur of foreign administrative judgments in France.