The Kingdom of Bahrain is the latest jurisdiction to ratify the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 ("Hague 2005"), with the treaty coming into force in the Kingdom on 1 July 2025. The ...

International agreements are never going to be perfect. They seek to manage a vast array of competing interests and various degrees of state power. As a result most agreements muddle through, seeking ...

Commentators observed how signing the Hague Convention was important in the absence of a comprehensive framework between the UK and EU covering civil and commercial judgments. The move also is seen as ...

In 1980, an international treaty was designed to return children who had been abducted by a parent who moved to another country. Back then, the people drafting the treaty thought the typical abductor ...

This article examines the issue of serving by electronic means under the Hague Convention, including whether email service is permitted in countries that have specifically invoked their right under ...

With only minor attempts to address the Hague Convention’s flaws, Australia’s rhetoric on seriously addressing domestic abuse rings hollow. Australia has an opportunity to establish itself as a global ...

A First Nations mother is appealing to the federal government to intervene in an international custody dispute that has separated her from her two-year-old daughter. A two-year-old First Nations child ...

The Korean minister of health and welfare on Friday signed the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, setting the stage for the Convention’s subsequent ratification and implementation. This is a ...

The “Old City Hall” portion of the Hague building, as seen in 1900. (Library of Congress) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers ...

The First Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention was adopted in 1954 in response to the systematic pillage of cultural property of the occupied territories during the Second World War. The States ...