The Hague Academy Summer Course of 2026
The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the programme of the summer course of Private International Law of 2026.
The course will be opened by Maria Chiara Malaguti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) with a lecture on Unification of Law: Overcoming Geography without Overcoming Diversity.
The general course, titled Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Private International Law, will be given by Dário Moura Vicente (University of Lisbon).
The special courses will be as follows: Paul Arrighi (Member of the Institute of Private International Law of the University of the Republic Uruguay), Contract Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration; Stavros Brekoulakis (Michael & Laura Hwang Professor at the National University of Singapore), Intellectual Evolution of International Arbitration; Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo), The Private Side of International Organizations; Richard Frimpong Oppong (Osgoode Hall Law School York University), Internationalism in Anglophone Africa’s Commercial Conflict of Laws; Giesela Rühl (Humboldt University of Berlin), Protection of Human Rights in Global Supply Chains; Laurence Usunier (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Private International Law Faced with Changes in the Sources of Law.
The directors of studies will be Roxana Banu (University of Oxford) for the English-speaking section, María Mercedes Albornoz (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) for the French-speaking session.
Applicants are required to register online. A limited amount of scholarships is available. Registration period for full fee, scholarship, doctoral scholarship and Directed Studies applicants is between 1 November 2025 and 31 January 2026.
More information on the Academy’s programmes, including the upcoming Winter Course, may be found here.