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  • The 1961 HCCH Apostille Convention: Why All African Countries Should Ratify It? — Insights from Judicial Practice in Afr
  • The Demise of the Lex Domicilii Matrimonii in South African Private International Law
  • South African international law rule known as lex domicilii matrimonii, Unconstitutional

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

The 1961 HCCH Apostille Convention: Why All African Countries Should Ratify It? — Insights from Judicial Practice in Afr...

I. The Apostille Convention

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conflictoflaws.net /5 days ago

The Demise of the Lex Domicilii Matrimonii in South African Private International Law

by Sibusiso Mabaso, Lecturer in Private International Law, University of South Africa For many years, South African private international law relied on the lex domicilii matrimonii...

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tech4law.co.za /1 month ago

South African international law rule known as lex domicilii matrimonii, Unconstitutional

This case is of the utmost importance to Conveyancers and Notaries. Here is the practical summary of the JUDGMENT IN N[…] P[…] V MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

【Out Now – Open Access】Commercial Private International Law in Southern Africa: Comparative and International Perspect...

  Professor Christopher F. Forsyth is undoubtedly one of the leading figures in private international law in Africa, particularly in Southern Africa, where his scholarship has had...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Judgment Mobility Rules in India’s Private International Law Regime: No place for a revision au fond?

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conflictoflaws.net /4 weeks ago

Conflicts of jurisdiction in Senegal: lesson from the Senegalese Supreme Court on Lis Pendens and the Exequatur of forei...

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conflictoflaws.net /2 weeks ago

Beyond Domicile: The BHP Litigation and the Functional Interconnection of Public and Private International Law

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conflictoflaws.net /2 weeks ago

Recognition of Italian Extrajudicial Divorces in Tunisia — Between Methodological Uncertainty and the Need to Preserve C...

I. Introduction Recent years have witnessed a movement towards the dejudicialization of consensual divorce and the proliferation of extrajudicial divorce mechanisms notably in Euro...

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conflictoflaws.net /2 weeks ago

Private International Law and European Society

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Revue critique de droit international privé – Issue 2026/2

Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher and doctoral student at Sciences Po Law School) The second issue of the Revue Critique de droit international privé of 2026 was ju...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: Beyond Africa - Why the AU Needs a Broader Definition of Reparations

[ISS] To implement the landmark UN slavery resolution, reparations should be defined as a framework for truth, responsibility, repair, reconciliation and global justice.

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theeastafrican.co.ke /1 week ago

Uganda sovereignty law on trial in new case

At the centre of the dispute is the balance between Uganda’s sovereign authority to regulate organisations operating within its territory and promoting regional cooperation.

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globalissues.org /1 week ago

African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash

NAIROBI, August 13 (IPS) - Women’s rights advocates, judges and lawyers have launched a coordinated campaign to reform family laws that discriminate against women and girls in Afr...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 week ago

Support in cross-border transactions by Adults: Contract law vs capacity law

Thalia Kruger, University of Antwerp & Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg This piece is based on a paper that I presented at the World Congress on Adults Pro...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: IFC, Industrial Policy and the Private Sector: Development Through the Lens of the Thiam Threshold

[allAfrica] From Project Bankability to Building Productive and Financeable Economies

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conflictoflaws.net /2 weeks ago

【Out Now】Silberman’s Hague Academy General Course: The Counter-Revolution in U.S. Private International Law: From Stan...

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...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2026: Abstracts

The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles:   L. Schwannecke: Challenging the European Certificate of...

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conflictoflaws.net /3 weeks ago

Out now: Private International Law and Children’s Rights Law by Tine Van Hof

The publisher’s blurb, including a discount code, is as follows: Private International Law and Children’s Rights Law   Conflicts in International Child Abduction Cases Tine Van Hof...

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conflictoflaws.net /2 weeks ago

CfP: 3rd International Seminar “The Challenges of Private International Law in Contemporary Society” – Belo Horizonte, B...

Call for Papers: 3rd International Seminar “The Challenges of Private International Law in Contemporary Society” – Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 4-6 November 2026     This Call for Paper...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Out Now (Open Access): Heiderhoff/Queirolo (eds), Private International Law and the European Union: Developments in Cont...

A new volume coming out of the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (

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thecitizen.co.tz /1 week ago

Uganda sued at EAC court over law regulating foreign-funded groups

Uganda’s controversial Protection of Sovereignty Act has come under scrutiny before the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), with four civil society organisations from three East...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Jurisdiction over Meta Inc. in Kenyan courts – three ongoing lawsuits

by Toussaint Nothias, NYU This post provides a brief overview of three lawsuits currently ongoing in Kenya against Meta Inc. It is based on remarks delivered during the Decolonial+...

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conflictoflaws.net /1 month ago

Adoption in the proposal for a European Parenthood Regulation

This post was written by Aukje Mens, Jurist at INEA, the Dutch expertise centre on intercountry adoption. She wrote in her own name.  Recently, an article I wrote about adoption in...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

South Africa: Madlanga Commission to Rule on Request for Private Testimony - South African News Briefs - July 8, 2026

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