The definition of ‘judgment’ in the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention is the focus of this Uniform Law Review article by Matthias Weller and Achim Czubaiko-Güntgen.
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.
The EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions held its fourth meeting on 4 June 2026, chaired by Birgit van Houtert and Marco Pasqua, after the 7 May 2026 transposition deadline had passed.
Merve Acun Mekengeç’s article starts from the point that a jurisdiction agreement is a contract by which the parties, by mutual consent, accept the jurisdiction of a particular court, and then examines the conditions for conferring jurisdiction on a foreign court in maintenance disputes with a…
Aleyna Sağdiç’s article, published on 5 April 2026, addresses the role of public-order review in the recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgments under Article 54 of the Turkish PIL Act.
The article recalls that litigation costs comprise the expenses incurred after proceedings begin and before judgment is given, together with the attorney’s fee, and that they are treated in Turkish law as accessory to the judgment.
This article by Clara Isabel Cordero Álvarez, published in CUADERNOS DE DERECHO TRANSNACIONAL, takes the CJEU’s judgment of 4 October 2024 as its starting point and examines how the public-policy exception under the Brussels regime interacts with fundamental rights, especially freedom of…
On 5 June 2025, the District Court of The Hague rejected an application for the exequatur of a Ukrainian judgment holding Gazprom jointly and severally liable for damage caused by the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
On 23 March 2026, UNCITRAL announced that Panama had ratified the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships. Panama completed the ratification on 19 March 2026.
According to the HCCH’s official notice, the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters entered into force for Montenegro on 1 March 2026, following Montenegro’s deposit of its instrument of ratification on 21 February 2025.
According to the HCCH notice, the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters entered into force for Albania on 1 March 2026.
The article examines when the limitation period begins in claims arising from the liquidation of the matrimonial property regime following a foreign divorce judgment.
Andrea Schulz authored the academic publication “Jueptner, Eva: A Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments. Why did the Judgments Project (1992–2001) Fail?
This article by Deniz Defne Kirli Aydemir, published in Terazi Hukuk Dergisi, addresses how the concept of occupational disease is characterised in Turkish private international law and how the international jurisdiction of Turkish courts is assessed in disputes arising from employment…
Richard Garnett’s article examines jurisdiction in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments through the distinction between direct jurisdictional rules applied by the court of origin at the initial adjudication stage and indirect rules applied at the recognition and enforcement stage.
This article by UGUR TÜTÜNCÜBASI, published in the Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, addresses the international jurisdiction of Turkish courts in individual employment disputes involving a foreign element under Law No. 5718.
Andorra deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters. The development concerns the private-international-law regime for the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
On 21 February 2025, Montenegro deposited its instrument of ratification of the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters, becoming a Contracting Party to the Convention.
On 13 February 2025, the Republic of Albania deposited its instrument of ratification of the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters.
Çörtoğlu Koca, Sema authored the academic publication “The Problem of Exclusive Jurisdiction in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Court Decisions Relating to Industrial Property Rights” in Başkent Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 11 No.
The article examines the Hague Apostille Convention of 5 October 1961 and the apostille system. It states that in Turkey the Convention was approved by Law No.