UNCITRAL — News on 2026-04-28 announced the development entitled “Azerbaijan signs the Singapore Convention on Mediation”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / UNCITRAL.
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.
Egypt signed the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known as the Singapore Convention on Mediation, at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 13 January 2026.
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.
UNCITRAL adopted the Toolkit and Background Notes on Asset Tracing and Recovery in Insolvency Proceedings on 18 July 2025. The source presents this as an official UNCITRAL action listed among its press releases.
Alan Uzelac's article in the Uniform Law Review examines the civil-procedure principles developed in the ELI–UNIDROIT project and convergence through a uniform approach to procedural obligations.
Tarman, Zeynep Derya's academic work “Legal Problems Frequently Encountered in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Court Decisions and Suggested Solutions” was published in Inönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 14 No.
The article considers how the Brussels II ter Regulation takes the promotion of mediation and other alternative dispute-resolution methods in the European Union a step further.
HCCH on 2020-10-09 announced the development entitled “Third Meeting of the Experts’ Group on the Tourists and Visitors (ODR) Project”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / HCCH.
This article examines, from a European and Spanish procedural-law perspective, the problems raised by the harmonized regime proposed by the 2019 Singapore Convention for the recognition and enforcement of agreements resulting from mediation.
Faruk Kerem Giray authored the academic publication “Three Questions Regarding Enforcement: Must the Foreign Judgment Subject to Enforcement Originate from a State Governed by the Rule of Law? Can a Settlement Agreement Concluded as a Result of Mediation Be Enforced?
Hague Conference on Private International Law on 2016-03-11 announced the development entitled “Just published: Russian translation of the General Principles for Judicial Communications”. The announcement concerns a development in the context of International / HCCH.
Eva Storskrubb’s article in the European Review of Private Law takes a wider view of alternative dispute resolution in the EU, placing it within developments in civil justice rather than limiting the discussion to consumer disputes.
Pablo Cortés and Fernando Esteban de la Rosa’s article addresses UNCITRAL’s draft Rules for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in the setting of low-value cross-border e-commerce disputes.