Journal du droit international: Issue 2 of 2026

The second issue of the Journal du droit international for 2026 has been released. It contains one article and several case notes relating to private international law issues.

The article is authored by Olivier Cachard (University of Nancy) and offers a study of the UNCITRAL Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents (La Convention des Nations unies sur les documents de cargaison négociable : un nouveau titre représentatif pour le financement du négoce international). The English abstract reads:

The UNCITRAL Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents creates a new document of title that incorporates the rights over transit cargo. Upon request of the consignor, the NCD is issued by the transport operator, be it a freight forwarder or a unimodal carrier, so as to cover both international unimodal and multimodal carriage of goods under a unique document of title that gives the current holder the right to claim delivery. Therefore, the NCD may enhance the access to trade finance, especially through documentary credit and/or as pledged asset. The evidence of the terms of the contract carriage, which is a distinct function, still belongs either to the carriage documents, when issuance is requested, or to the combination of the general terms of carriage and the order messages. The NCD may be issued as an upgrade of the carriage document or as a sole title, with no carriage document issued.

The issue also contains several commentaries of judgments concerned with private international law issue, including the judgment of the CJEU in the Seraing case, the judgment of the French supreme court rendered in the Real Madrid case, and the judgment of the French supreme court ruling that the Rome I Regulation forbids French courts to apply religious law (to be presented shortly on this blog).

More details can be found here.