Introduction to the Second Issue of 2023
Authors:   South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, Gromova Elizaveta , Ferreira Daniel ,   Ambra University, Orlando, USA
Published: December 2023

Dear Readers,We proudly present the Second Issue of the International Journal of Law in Changing World –IJLCW–volume two. We are delighted that this Issue is an example of international knowledge exchange. Authors worldwide presented their papers on current legal problems in South Africa, Russia, India, Greece, Spain, Algeria, and Iran. Our authors gave the Journal the honor of publishing highly relevant research papers devoted to different aspects of law and regulations that the modern world faces. This Issue presents the paper "European private international law and national civil codes: interactions and Synergies." Professor Martín Jesús Urrea Salazar (Spain) explores the role of global law in the current legal reality and the importance of autonomy of the will in regulating international legal relationships.The following paper is entitled "Employment Implications for naturalized South African citizens" by William Manga Mokofe (South Africa). Considering the historical context, the author provides insights into the challenges and opportunities these citizens face in the labor market."The human right to safe drinking water -a study of the prospects for the accession of Arab countries to the 1992 Water Convention" by Laidani Mohammed and Djairene Aissa (Algeria) devoted to identifying the international recognition of the human right tosafe and safe drinking water, as well as the 1992 Water Convention, which works to protect and use transboundary watercourses and international lakes and their relationship to sustainable development and environmental protection, as well as the prospects and consequences of the accession of Arab countries to this Convention to ensure water security.The paper "The right to explanation in the processing of personal data with the use of AI systems" by Professor Eleftheria (Ria) Papadimitriou (Greece) refers to the legal basis of a new, independent, sui generis right to explanation that data subjects areafforded when automated decision-making processing takes place."Artificial intelligence and its role in the development of the future of arbitration" by Mohammad Ali Solhchi and Faraz Baghbanno (Iran) studies ethical considerations such as privacy and bias that must be taken into account to ensure that AI does not compromise fairness or jeopardize confidentiality in arbitration proceedings. The paper "Artificial Intelligence and National Security: perspective of the Global South" by Kushal Srivastava (India) aims to depict a descriptive approach to the perspective of the global South, and it analyses the entire situation of AI and its prospective future in the cyber security and national security of the connected nations. Another paper, "The Doctrine of Beneficial Ownership in Russian Law" by Tikhon Podshivalov (Russia), addresses the problems of differentiation of the spheres of application of doctrine, the piercing corporate veils and the doctrine of beneficial ownership.Both of these doctrines are grounds to challenge corporate decisions.The Journal also contains the paper "The right to development: BRICS' understanding of the human rights," written by Danil Karimov and Moritz Hieronimy (China), which analyses one of the relatively new human rights -the right to development. The authors conclude that implementing and applying this right in international law is necessary to develop society and social relations further.We truly hope you will find this Issue valuable and informative because that is the mission of the Journal –to find solutions to crucial legal issues that arise from the forever-changing world.We want to thank our authors, reviewers and editorial team members for their excellent job, support, and efforts to make the Second Issue possible. We hope the Journal can inspire academics and researchers to keep expanding their horizons and reducing the research distance between countries. Sincerely yours. Editors-in-Chief Elizaveta Gromova and Daniel Brantes Ferreira.