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		<title>ECtHR Refers Finnish-Russian Child Abduction Case to Grand Chamber</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/13/ecthr-refers-finnish-russian-child-abduction-case-to-grand-chamber/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erik Sinander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The European Court of Human Rights has accepted the referral of Z and Others v. Finland (no. 42758/23) to the Grand Chamber. The case concerns a Russian father who abducted his sons from their mother in Russia to Finland in 2022. As has previously been reported for the blog (see here), the Finnish Supreme Court [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Out now: EAPIL Wroclaw Conference Volume – Private International Law and Global Crises</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/10/out-now-eapil-wroclaw-conference-volume-private-international-law-and-global-crises/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The world is experiencing a growing number of interconnected crises. Armed conflicts, democratic backsliding, climate change, and human rights violations in global supply chains increasingly transcend national borders and expose the limitations of legal systems designed primarily within territorial frameworks. Private international law, traditionally perceived as a technical and neutral discipline, is therefore confronted with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>EAPIL Announces New Governance</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/09/eapil-announces-new-governance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilles Cuniberti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the recent Geneva Conference, EAPIL&#8217;s members were called to elect new officers to serve on the Board and the Scientific Council of the Association until 2030. Congratulations and thanks to the fellow members who will take over from the previous governance. Board of Administration Agnieszka Frackowiack-Adamska, President Agnieszka is a professor at the Department of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Italian Supreme Court on Surrogacy and Filiation Status Abroad: Towards a New Model?</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/08/the-italian-supreme-court-on-surrogacy-and-filiation-status-abroad-towards-a-new-model/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Pasqua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By order No. 5656/2026, the First Civil Chamber of the Italian Supreme Court referred the case to the First President of the Court for possible assignment to the Joint Chambers (Sezioni Unite) of a question of “particular importance” concerning the recognition in Italy of children born abroad through surrogacy. More specifically, the Court asked whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Genetic Link, No Recognition? The German Federal Court of Justice on Cross-Border Surrogacy</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/08/no-genetic-link-no-recognition-the-german-federal-court-of-justice-on-cross-border-surrogacy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Konrad Duden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, a decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof or BGH) was published on the recognition of a judgment in a case of international surrogate motherhood. An unmarried German woman had entered into a surrogacy arrangement in Mexico City. Unlike in previous cases decided by the court, donated eggs and donated sperm were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Book on Equality of Arms in EU Cross-Border Civil Litigation</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/07/new-book-on-equality-of-arms-in-eu-cross-border-civil-litigation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post, Julie Esquenazi (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) presents the key findings of her doctoral thesis, recently published with Bruylant Larcier Intersentia on Equality of Arms in Cross-Border Civil Litigation. The research aims at analysing and determining whether and to what extent European rules of international jurisdiction effectively ensure equality of arms. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>French Supreme Court Confirms Surrogacy Foreign Judgments Are Not Per Se Contrary to International Public Policy</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/06/french-supreme-court-confirms-surrogacy-foreign-judgments-are-not-per-se-contrary-to-international-public-policy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contibuted by Mathilde Codazzi-Nodet, who is a PhD candidate at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University. On 3rd July 2026, in two major decisions, the plenary assembly (assemblée plénière) of the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation), its most solemn chamber which includes the president of the court and the president of all six [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fourth Meeting of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions – Report (Part II)</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/03/fourth-meeting-of-the-eapil-working-group-on-anti-slapp-directive-transpositions-report-part-ii/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was written by Birgit van Houtert (Assistant Professor, Maastricht University) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions as report of the Working Group’s fourth meeting. This post follows up on the report (Part I). The fourth meeting of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fourth Meeting of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions – Report (Part I)</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/03/fourth-meeting-of-the-eapil-working-group-on-anti-slapp-directive-transpositions-report-part-i/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was written by Birgit van Houtert (Assistant Professor, Maastricht University) and Marco Pasqua (Examiner, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), co-Chairs of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions as report of the Working Group’s fourth meeting. This post continues with the report (Part II). On 4 June 2026, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Conflit Mobile in EU PIL</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/02/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-conflit-mobile-in-eu-pil/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was written by Felix M. Wilke (Full Professor at the EBS University Law School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany). He was granted prior access to the book reviewed here. Just recently, German publishing house Nomos made available “Statutenwechsel und Gerichtsstandswechsel” by Christoph Gramlich-Altenburg, a book on the conflit mobile under Rome I, Rome II, and Brussels [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>July 2026 at the Court of Justice of the European Union</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/01/july-2026-at-the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marta Requejo Isidro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 2 July, the Court will deliver the opinion by M. Richard de la Tour in case C-300/25, Duftošek. The Nejvyšší soud (Czech Republic) is asking the Court to rule for the first time on Regulation 2016/1103 on matrimonial property regimes: Do proceedings for the dissolution and liquidation of joint ownership interests in an immoveable property, acquired by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Conference on Wills Substitutes (Lausanne, 8 September 2026)</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/06/30/conference-on-wills-substitutes-lausanne-8-september-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Wysocka-Bar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 8 September 2026 Andrea Bonomi and the Centre for Comparative, European and International Law of the University of Lausanne are organizing a conference titled „Wills substitutes” in comparative and private international law. Speakers include: Michael W. Galligan (New York), Edward Reed (London) and Jeffrey Talpis (Montreal), Charlotte Wendland (Munich), Sophie Lambert (Aix-Marseille), François Derème [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crossing Dialogues, Disciplines and Borders: How Far Can Private International Law Go? – Call for Papers</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/06/30/crossing-dialogues-disciplines-and-borders-how-far-can-private-international-law-go-call-for-papers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Pasqua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (UCILeR), in cooperation with the Associação de Estudos Europeus de Coimbra (AEEC – Coimbra Association of European Studies), is organising the international symposium Crossing Dialogues, Disciplines and Borders: How far can Private International Law go?, which will take place on 9–10 October 2026 at the Colégio da [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>AG Norkus on Sovereign Immunity and Art 6 EIR</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/06/29/ag-norkus-on-sovereign-immunity-and-art-6-eir/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Eirini Tsikrika, a PhD candidate at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a practising lawyer. As already announced on this blog, on 4 June 2026 Advocate General Norkus delivered his opinion in Case C-41/25, Orsay, concerning a request for a preliminary ruling referred to the Court of Justice by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>IPRax: Issue 4 of 2026</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/06/26/iprax-issue-4-of-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthias Lehmann]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fourth issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2026 will be published on 1 July. The following advance abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. L. Schwannecke, Challenging the European Certificate of Succession: Prerequisites and consequences after the CJEU decision in Albausy (German) According to Art. 67 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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