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Written by Nicolás Zambrana-Tévar LLM, PhD (KIMEP University) Facts of the case An unreported judgment of the Family, Childhood and Capacity Section of the Tribunal de Instancia de Alicante (No. 3), dated 29 April 2026, has attracted attention for ordering a Mexican gestational surrogate to pay child maintenance to the
The publisher’s blurb is as follows. Readers of the blog may use the discount code indicated below to get 20% off. Conflicts of Worldviews and Private International Law Sandrine Brachotte This book develops a decolonial theory of European private international law. To do so, it begins with Western court cases involving
This report was written by Josephine Götze, LL.M.-student at the University of Groningen. An extended version will appear in a forthcoming edited volume published by Springer. On 29 May 2026, the
South Africa occupies a strategic position in African and Global South trade networks, yet its economy continues to lag behind its BRICS partners and many of its African peers. A recurring, if underexamined, contributor to this underperformance is the state of its private international law governing the recognition and
The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles: B. Steinrötter: The UNIDROIT Conflict-of-Laws Rule on the Law of Crypto-Assets. A contribution to the classification of Principle 5 of the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law With
The standard textbook of Belgian Private International Law in French has just been published in its fourth edition (by
Susanne Gössl (Bonn), Frederick Rieländer (Bremen), and Benedikt Schmitz (Groningen) are happy to announce the creation of the European Group on the Digitalisation of Justice (EGDJ), a Chapter-based collaborative research network dedicated to analysing, evaluating, and shaping the ongoing digital transformation of judi
A. The Impetus for Presenting the Issue In light of the publication of three judgments of the Thessaloniki First Instance Court concerning the service of documents in Contracting States to the 1965 Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters [hereinafter
The European Commission has just opened a
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