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No handshake, no citizenship – but with a second wife, everything’s fine?
Two recent judgments of European courts have highlighted the difficulty in finding the right balance between the cultural assimilation of Muslim immigrants demanded by national laws on citizenship and the necessary degree of tolerance towards foreign laws and customs. In a widely reported
Child Abduction and Habitual Residence in the Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada, in Office of the Children’s Lawyer v Balev (available
The CJEU settles the issue of characterising the surviving spouse’s share of the estate in the context of the Succession Regulation
It has not been yet noted on this blog that the CJEU has recently settled a classic problem of characterisation that has plagued German courts and academics for decades (CJEU, 1 March 2018 – C-558/16, Mahnkopf, ECLI:EU:C:2018:138). The German statutory regime of matrimonial property is a community of accrued gains, i.e. that each spouse keeps […]
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August 2022 Update: List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments
Written by Dr. Meng Yu and Dr. Guodong Du, co-founders of China Justice Observer* On 21 August 2022, China Justice Observer released the 2022 version of the List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments. To date, we have collected 89 cases involving China and 24 foreign States and regions. (Note: Foreign divorce […]
AMEDIP: Annual seminar to take place from 16 to 18 November 2022
The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (
Special Issue NIPR Cross-Border Insolvency
The latest issue (2022/2) of the Dutch/English journal