Justin Robertson traces how investment migrants acquire foreign status, second passports and residencies while continuing to live in China. The analysis connects this practice of “migration without leaving” with household registration, capital transfers and the regulation of investment migration.
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Nguyen Thi Tuyet Nhung and Thao Ngo Minh Phuong consider how Vietnamese private international law affects women’s rights in marriage and family relationships involving foreign elements, using a feminist legal-theory perspective.
Mauritius ratified the Singapore Convention on Mediation on 17 August 2026, as announced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The Convention establishes a framework for relying on and enforcing international mediated settlement agreements across borders.
Francesca Cimino, Beatrice Grasso and Fabio Perocco examine the status and access to social rights of third-country nationals in Italy who are subject to expulsion orders but cannot be returned for legal, practical or policy-related reasons.
Efrat Arbel traces how Canada’s asylum reforms between 2020 and 2026 transformed its refugee-protection system and affected its legal obligations towards asylum seekers.
Radu Bogdan Bobei’s article in the Uniform Law Review argues that transnational law cannot be interpreted in absolute isolation from public international law and conflict-of-laws technique.
Mathias Audit investigates the legal difficulties surrounding investor-State arbitration claims and their assignment. He places those claims in the context of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements, foreign investment codes and domestic investment law.
Miklós Király’s article in the Uniform Law Review compares how interpretation has been regulated across uniform substantive-law instruments on international sales and contracts over roughly nine decades.
According to the official HCCH news item, the Republic of Indonesia deposited its instrument of acceptance of the HCCH Statute on 11 August 2026, thereby becoming the 94th Member of the HCCH.
Arian Henning’s Verfassungsblog post, “Computer Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and discusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz adopted by the German federal cabinet on 29 July 2026.
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.
This article argues that international transport law has been one of the earliest and clearest fields for the use of directly applicable substantive rules.
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.
Innocent Tchamgwé’s article in the Uniform Law Review examines the presumption of cessation of payments that follows recognition of a foreign main collective proceeding in the OHADA area. It focuses on procedural coordination, the national judge’s role and questions of legal certainty.
Çağla Ekin Guner investigates how solidarity with refugees became institutionalised at urban level in Hamburg and Izmir, comparing two institutions founded in 2020 that developed from earlier local initiatives.
Ravit Talmi-Cohn’s article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies examines how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes through the concept of “limited hybridity.”