The latest issue of the „Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts“ (IPRax) features the following articles:
B. Steinrötter: The UNIDROIT Conflict-of-Laws Rule on the Law of Crypto-Assets. A contribution to the classification of Principle 5 of the UNIDROIT Principles
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned Russia’s recruitment of foreign nationals from socio-economically disadvantaged countries to fight in Ukraine as human trafficking, stating that they were primarily recruited via deceptive job offers, had their immigration status exploited, and were handed over
In the aftermath of the explosive-drone incident at Leipzig airport, German Foreign Minister Wadephul on 1 September announced a package of measures against Russia, including the closure of Germany’s last remaining Russian consulate-general in Bonn and the termination of the
Editor’s Note: Putin told the world on Sept. 1 that Russian forces had taken Svyatohirsk. Six days later, Brig. Gen. Andriy Biletskyi walked across the town’s bridge on camera, unhelmeted, and told Russia’s leadership to take off their clown noses.
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea produced not only a geopolitical crisis but also a substantial wave of investor–state arbitration claims from Ukrainian businesses whose assets were located on the peninsula when Russian authorities assumed control. These claims have been brought
Judge Bea begins this opinion with:”For years, Naum Morgovsky smuggled components for
night-vision and thermal-vision rifle scopes into Russia and
laundered the proceeds of his illicit enterprise through a
network of offshore banks. But federal investigators
eventually got Morgovsky in
Editor’s Note: Estonia woke eight counties before dawn Tuesday, put ground air defenses on alert and scrambled NATO fighter jets, and by 5:30 a.m. it was over. One drone had crossed the southeastern border. Nothing fell, nobody fired, and no
On August 24, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a $1 million settlement with Ohio-based Container Manufacturing Ltd. (CML) to resolve allegations that the company exported restricted industrial parts to Russia without authorizations required
CBInsights recently published its State of Fintech report for the second quarter of 2026. Overall, global funding for the first six months of the year totaled $26.4 billion, raised in 1,695 deals, with deal activity declining in the second quarter.
Russia does not forcibly relocate its civilians into the occupied territories of Ukraine. Instead, it relies on an array of incentives, including preferential mortgages, employment programmes and tax benefits to increase the attractiveness of relocation. This gives rise to a
