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Brazil’s Superior Court Invokes Forum Non Conveniens: Is that Really What They Mean?
This post was written by Luana Matoso, the Head of the Centre of Expertise on Latin America at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
On September 1, 2026, Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice invoked the doctrine of forum non conveniens in declining jurisdiction to hear a dispute. It is the first time this court has done so in a transnational case. Does the judgment represent the reception of forum non conveniens into Brazilian law? The answer is less straightforward than the terminology used by the court might suggest.
Recognition of a Kosovar Judgment in Greece
- Introduction. Decision No. 21257/2026 of the Thessaloniki Court of First Instance is of particular interest in the fields of private international law and international civil procedure, as it concerns the recognition in the Greek legal order of a judgment of a foreign court dissolving a marriage, where the state in which that court operates is not officially recognised by Greece as an independent state. The issue assumes additional significance because the judgment originates from Kosovo, whose international legal status continues to be the subject of divergent positions within the international community.
The principal question is whether Greece’s non-recognition of Kosovo automatically precludes recognition of the legal effects of a judicial decision rendered within its territory, or whether such effects may be recognised without prior diplomatic recognition of the entity concerned as a state.
The Philippines: Recognition of Foreign Divorces and Recent Amendments to the Rules of Court
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
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Conference in Paris on recent developments in the private international law of Arab States, 12 November 2026
On Thursday 12 November 2026, the Centre de recherche de droit international privé et du commerce international (CRDI) of Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas and the Centre d’études des droits du monde arabe (CEDROMA) of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth will hold a conference in Paris on current developments in the private international law of Arab States. The conference asks how these legal systems balance their own legal traditions against the growing pull of shared solutions.
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 6/2026: Abstracts
The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles:
New issue alert: RabelsZ 3 (2026)
The latest issue of RabelsZ has just be released. It contains the following articles. All content is Open Access: CC BY 4.0.