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		<title>The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2027</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/31/the-hague-academy-centre-for-studies-and-research-of-2027/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Pasqua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2027 will be held from 16 August to 3 September 2027. The 2027 edition of the Centre will focus on International Law on Mineral Exploration and Mining. The Directors of Research will be Diana Correa (Externado University of Colombia) and Arnaud de Nanteuil (Paris-Est Créteil University). [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Private International Law Bonanza in the UK Supreme Court</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/30/private-international-law-bonanza-in-the-uk-supreme-court/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ugljesa Grusic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court released three judgments of relevance for private international law, thereby providing a lot of interesting material to read over the summer. Collectively, the three judgments concern state immunity, jurisdiction and the effects of foreign judgments. This post briefly outlines the facts, issues and decisions in these three [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The EU-Russian Legal Battle over Sanctions Continues</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/29/the-eu-russian-legal-battle-over-sanctions-continues/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Pasqua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The legal confrontation between the European Union and the Russian Federation over the effects of restrictive measures continues to intensify. In recent months, the interaction between sanctions law, private international law and national countermeasures has become increasingly complex, as both sides have adopted instruments aimed at protecting the effectiveness of their respective legal frameworks. On [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Legitimate Expectations and Reasonable Reliance in EU Private International Law</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/28/legitimate-expectations-and-reasonable-reliance-in-eu-private-international-law/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Antonio Mariconda, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. In cross-border legal relationships, it is not uncommon that individuals’ expectations about the legal treatment of their situations are not matched by reality. This has to do with the fact that parties to cross-border situations are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perspectives Contentieuses Internationales: Issue 6 of 2026</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/27/perspectives-contentieuses-internationales-issue-6-26-june-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marion Ho-Dac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely read here. Concentration of Cross-Border Disputes (Part 1) This new issue features the first part of a special dossier on the concentration of cross-border disputes edited [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aucrinde: A Few Further Remarks on Cross-Border Taking of Evidence</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/24/aucrinde-a-view-from-vilnius/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Editors of the EAPIL blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Vytautas Vaicekauskas who is a PhD candidate at Vilnius University. On 16 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered a judgment in case No C-196/24 (“Aucrinde”) for the first time concerning the Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 on cross-border taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mutual trust and the Evidence Regulation: the Grand Chamber decision in Aucrinde</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/23/mutual-trust-and-the-evidence-regulation-the-grand-chamber-decision-in-aucrinde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Dr. Vincent Richard, who is a practising lawyer in Luxembourg. As announced by Marta Requejo on this blog, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case Aucrinde (C-196/24) on 16 July 2026. This is the first case on the recast of the Evidence Regulation (Reg. 2020/1783) and, more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cross-Border Evidence Under Brussels I bis and Beyond: The Dutch Reform of Access to Evidence</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/22/cross-border-evidence-under-brussels-i-bis-and-beyond-the-dutch-reform-of-access-to-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Pauline Ernste &#38; Jeroen van Hezewijk, who are respectively professor of civil law, in particular civil procedural law, and doctoral researcher at the Radboud Business Law Institute (OO&#38;R) of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The post is based on a more in-depth analysis published (in Dutch) here. On [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CJEU on Escape Clause in Employment Contracts in Hortis</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/21/cjeu-on-escape-clause-in-employment-contracts-in-hortis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ugljesa Grusic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 9 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C‑768/24 Hortis GRC SA v JA, France Travail Île-de-France ECLI:EU:C:2026:566. The judgment concerns the interpretation of Article 6 of the Rome Convention, the predecessor of Article 8 of the Rome I Regulation. More specifically, it concerns the relationship [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>International and Comparative Law Quarterly: Issue 2 for 2026</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/20/international-and-comparative-law-quarterly-issue-2-for-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ugljesa Grusic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 75, Issue 2) features one article of relevance to private international law. Marcus Teo, Strong Cause, 285 &#8211; 313 Common law courts will enforce jurisdiction agreements unless they find ‘strong cause’ or ‘strong reasons’ not to. This article argues that the strong cause test is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ZeuP: Issue 2 of 2026</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/17/ready-col-7-may-zeup-issue-2-of-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caterina Benini]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The second issue of 2026 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht contains the following articles which may be of interest to the readers of the EAPIL blog: Burkhard Hess, Justizpräsenz im Internet: ein neues Forschungsfeld der Prozessrechtsvergleichung The editorial examines the digitalisation of court communication across different jurisdictions, identifying it as an emerging field [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Commission Opens Infringement Proceedings Over Anti-SLAPP Directive Transposition</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/16/commission-opens-infringement-proceedings-over-anti-slapp-directive-transposition/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marco Pasqua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 15 July 2026, the European Commission decided to open infringement proceedings against 14 Member States for failing to communicate the complete transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/1069 on the protection of persons engaging in public participation against manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings (the &#8216;Anti-SLAPP Directive&#8217;). Letters of formal notice have been addressed to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swiss Sanctions against Russia are Overriding Mandatory Provisions, Barring Enforcement</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/15/swiss-sanctions-against-russia-are-overriding-mandatory-provisions-barring-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was post was contributed by Dr. Lorène Anthonioz, who is Research and Teaching Assistant in Private International Law at Unidistance. In judgment 4A_305/2025, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition on transferring funds to sanctioned companies and entities under the Swiss Ordinance on Measures Relating to the Situation in Ukraine (see unofficial [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Escaping German standard terms law? A private international law puzzle</title>
		<link>https://eapil.org/2026/07/14/escaping-german-standard-terms-law-a-private-international-law-puzzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post was contributed by Felix D. Pollmann (University of Münster) and draws on a chapter written with Jonathan L. T. Chu (Downing College, University of Cambridge) on “Standard Terms in Business-to-Business Contracts under English and German Law”, in Heiderhoff/Queirolo, Private International Law and the European Union: Developments in Contemporary Private Law (Editoriale Scientifica 2026), [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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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