Sarcevic / Volken / Bonomi 2006

Volume VIII (2006)
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-86653-719-4
Verlag: Otto Schmidt
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Yearbook of Private International Law

Current Volume VIII (2006) of the Yearbook of Private International Law is arguably one of the most comprehensive collections of essays in English-language of our time: It presents the reader with a broad overview on the status and trends of private international law from the United States to India, from France to Tunisia, from England to China, from Latvia to Qatar, from Sweden to Japan. All main areas of law are addressed: among others, marriage, including same-sex marriage, adoption and protection of children, euthanasia and living wills, inheritance, contracts, torts, insolvency. Each of the four traditional steps of the “conflict process” is taken into account: adjudicatory jurisdiction, international cooperation and procedure, applicable law and its various incidents, recognition of foreign judgments. Practitioners will especially benefit from several contributions on international arbitration. Benefecial for: scholars, lawyers, judges, notaries, lawyers in law departments of international enterprises, legal libraries, working in the field of Private International Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarcevic, Petar

Volken, Paul

Bonomi, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Privatrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Doctrine
Alfred E. von Overbeck: Three Steps With Petar Sarcevic
Tito Ballarino: Is a Conflict Rule for Living Wills and Euthanasia Needed?
Katharina Boele-Woelki, Ian Curry-Sumner, Miranda Jansen, Wendy Schrama: The Evaluation of Same-Sex Marriages and Registered Partnerships in the Netherlands
Alegría Borrás: Competence of the Community to Conclude the Revised Lugano Convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters – Opinion C-1/03 of 7 February 2006: Comments and Immediate Consequences
Lawrence Collins: The United States Supreme Court and the Principles of Comity: Evidence in Transnational Litigation
William Duncan: Nationality and the Protection of Children across Frontiers, and the Example of Intercountry Adoption
Jasnica Garasic: What is Right and What is Wrong in the ECJ’s Judgment on Eurofood IFSC Ltd
Huang Jin: Interaction and Integration between the Legal Systems of Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China 50 Years after Their Return to China
Ulrich Magnus: Set-off and the Rome I Proposal
Yuko Nishitani: International Child Abduction in Japan
Yasuhiro Okuda: Reform of Japan’s Private International Law: Act on the General Rules of the Application of Laws
Robert G. Spector: Same-Sex Marriages, Domestic Partnerships and Private International Law: At the Dawn of a New Jurisprudence in the United States

National Reports
Richard Frimpong Oppong: The Hague Conference and the Development of Private International Law in Africa: A Plea for Cooperation
Serge Billarant: The French Diptych on Foreign Law: An Analysis through Its Most Recent Retouching
Nidhi Gupta and Rajnish Kumar Singh: Law Relating to International Arbitration in India
Marie-Claude Najm: Codification of Private International Law in the Civil Code of Qatar

Court Decisions
Fang Xiao and Yujun Guo: China – Enforcement of Arbitration Clauses. Remarks on Two 10 May 2005 Decisions of the Supreme People’s Court
Haris P. Meidanis: Greece – Three Recent Greek Cases on the Brussels Convention
Edgars Strautins: Latvia – Two 2005 Latvian Supreme Court Decisions on International Jurisdiction and Procedure
Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos: Spain – Private International Law Problems Relating to the Celebration of Same-Sex Marriages: DGRN of 29 July 2005
Bart Volders / Valentin Rétornaz: Switzerland – Challenging an Arbitral Award for Infringement of Competition Law? The Terra Armata Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal of 8 March 2006
Ian Curry-Sumner: United Kingdom – An Age-Old Dilemma: Is It Time for a ‘Revolutionary Approach’? A Commentary on Harding v. Wealands

Forum
Stéphanie Francq: The Scope of Secondary Community Law in the Light of the Methods of Private International Law – Or the Other Way Around?
Paolo Bertoli: The Court of Justice, European Integration and Private International Law

Texts, Materials and Recent Developments
Elisabeth Meurling: New Choice of Law Rules For Capacity to Marry and the Recognition of Marriage in Sweden – A New Principle?
Anis Ben Khammassi: Art. 54(1) of the Tunisian Code of Private International Law – The Mysterious Article 54(1)
Kent Anderson and Yasushiro Okuda (translators): Japanese Act on the General Rules of the Application of Laws

Books Received
Index