This book chapter by Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou appears in The Practice of Interpretation in International Law and examines methods of interpretation in international investment law.
A correction to Jane McAdam and Geoff Gilbert’s article on international protection in the context of climate change and disasters was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law on 29 August 2026.
Franco Ferrari addresses the relationship between uniform substantive law and private international law by asking whether rules were intended to be interpreted and applied in the same way across different legal systems.
On 26 August 2026, Giesela Rühl published a reference entry on the foundational concepts and systematic structure of private international law. The entry appears in Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks.
Published on 21 August 2026, the independent Declaration asserts a right for people with experience of forced displacement or statelessness to participate in decisions that directly or indirectly affect their protection and human rights.
Guy S Goodwin-Gill focuses on the role of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in relation to refugee status and international protection. The article addresses the legal relationship between the Convention and those protection frameworks.
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.
Nikita Yu. Chaplin’s article was published in Public international and private international law and addresses unresolved questions in private international law concerning the legal classification of property statutes and their relationship with obligatory statutes.
Mukarrum Ahmed uses business and human rights proceedings brought by persons alleging harm from multinational companies’ overseas conduct to explore the different forms taken by forum (non) conveniens in international litigation.
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.
Nadia Darwazeh and Rémi Sassine’s article in the Journal of International Arbitration addresses irreparable or irremediable harm as a condition for interim measures in international arbitration.
The article addresses how third-party funding (TPF) can widen access to international arbitration while creating risks for cost recovery and procedural balance, including situations where respondents face substantial exposure if funded claimants cannot satisfy adverse awards.
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.
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.
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.
Jane McAdam authored the academic publication “A sign of precarity or protection? Understanding the role of evacuations from disasters in international protection claims” in International Journal of Refugee Law, published on 2026-07-22.
Nesar Ahmad Mohammadi, Teaching Assistant Abdul Basir Nasiri and Dr Sayed Yadullah Gowhari compare the conflict-of-laws rules on personal status in Iran and Afghanistan, addressing marriage, divorce, parent–child relations, guardianship, tutorship and legal capacity.
This article by Tristan Harley, Najeeba Wazefadost and Mohammad Baqir Bayani examines refugee participation in the context of the 1951 Refugee Convention. It appears in the International Journal of Refugee Law as an academic contribution to debate on participation in international refugee law.