General principles of European private international law
By: edited by Stefan Leible
Series: European monograph series -- volume 95; European monographs -- 95
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer; Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9789041159557
Subjects: Conflict of laws; International and municipal law
Description: European private international law, as it stands in the Rome I, II, and III Regulations and the recent Successions Regulation, presents manifold risks of diverging judgments despite seemingly harmonised conflict of law rules. There is now a real danger, in light of the rapid increase in the number of legal instruments of the European Union on conflict of laws, that European private international law will become incoherent. This collection of essays by twenty noted scholars in the field sheds clear light on the pivotal issues of whether a set of overarching rules (a 'general part') is required, whether an EU regulation is the adequate legal instrument for such a purpose, which general questions such an instrument should address, and what solutions such an instrument should provide.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Felix M. Wilke -- Part I. Conceptual issues:; title: Recognition as a substitute for conflict of laws?  -- Matthias Lehmann; title: The role of economic efficiency in European private international law  -- Giesela Rűhl; title: A 'Rome 0' Regulation from a political point of view  -- Rolf Wagner -- Part II. The subject matter:; title: Classification : a subject matter for a Rome 0 Regulation?  -- Helmut Heiss & Emese Kaufmann-Mohi; title: Preliminary question  -- Gerald Ma̋sch; title: Overriding mandatory provisions  -- Hans Jűrgen Sonnenberger; title: Part III. The connecting factor:; title: Party autonomy, legal doctrine on choice of law, and the general section of the European conflict of laws  -- Heinz-Peter Mansel; title: 'Habitual residence' : a plea for 'settled intention'  -- Marc-Philippe Weller & Bettina Rentsch; title: Dual and multiple nationals, stateless persons, and refugees  -- Peter Mankowski; title: Closest connection and escape clauses  -- Oliver Remien -- Part IV. The applicable law:; title: Renvoi in European private international law  -- Jan von Hein; title: References to non-unified legal systems  -- Florian Eichel; title: Ordre public (public policy)  -- Wolfgang Wurmnest; title: Adaptation  -- Gerhard Dannemann -- Part V. Further general issues:; title: The law of agency  -- Martin Gebauer; title: Ascertaining and applying foreign law -- Eva-Maria Kieninger.