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We are pleased to announce a hybrid seminar on Private International Law Issues Relating to Blockchain, to be held on Friday, 20 November 2026, at The University of Osaka. The seminar will bring together Professor Gerald Goldstein (Université de Montréal) and Dr Emeric Prévost (University of Vienna/Kyushu University) to discuss emerging private international law issues […]
This post is kindly prepared by Akifumi MOCHIZUKI, attorney at law at Atsumi Toshiyuki Law Office and a member of Private International Law Association of Japan
I. Introduction Can a foreign adoption deed be given effect in Mozambique? What procedural steps must be followed, and which requirements must be satisfied? Does the fact that the adoption takes the form of a notarial deed complicate its “recognition” in Mozambique under the applicable legal framework for the “review and confirmation of foreign […]
I. Introduction The enforcement of foreign judgments depends on the legal regime applicable to the case. In common law jurisdictions, enforcement may proceed, depending on the circumstances, either by registration under a statutory regime (whether based on reciprocal arrangements or international conventions) or by an action on the foreign judgment at common law. In […]
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Private international law in Egypt has often been described as being in a state of stagnation. After enormous efforts by the government since the end of the 19th century, and particularly during the beginning of the 20th century, Egypt succeeded in developing a relatively comprehensive PIL framework, covering choice of law (Arts 10–28 of the […]
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I. Introduction Recent years have witnessed a movement towards the dejudicialization of consensual divorce and the proliferation of extrajudicial divorce mechanisms notably in Europe. While this mode of “private divorce” is not, as such, a new phenomenon and extrajudicial divorce has been practised in different forms across various parts of the world (see e.g., Béligh […]
For anyone who begins studying private international law – particularly from a civil law perspective – one of the first concepts encountered, after Savigny’s ‘Copernican Revolution’, is the American ‘Choice-of-Law Revolution’. Since the late 1950s, American courts and scholars have progressively abandoned the rigid territorial methodology embodied in the First Restatement of Conflict of Laws […]