Yearbook of Private International Law. / Volume VIII, : 2006 / / Petar Sarcevic, Paul Volken, Andrea Bonomi; ed. by Petar Sarcevic.

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• VerfasserIn: Sarcevic, Petar,; Bonomi, Andrea,; Volken, Paul,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Kent,; Ballarino, Tito,; Ben Khammassi, Anis,; Bertoli, Paolo,; Billarant, Serge,; Boele-Woelki, Katharina,; Borrás, Alegría,; Collins, Lawrence,; Curry-Sumner, Ian,; Duncan, William,; Francq, Stéphanie,; Garašić, Jasnica,; Guo, Yujun,; Gupta, Nidhi,; Jansen, Miranda,; Jin, Huang,; Kumar Singh, Rajnish,; Magnus, Ulrich,; Meidanis, Haris P.,; Meurling, Elisabeth,; Najm, Marie-Claude,; Nishitani, Yuko,; Okuda, Yasuhiro,; Okuda, Yasushiro,; Oppong, Richard Frimpong,; Orejudo Prieto De Los Mozos, Patricia,; Overbeck, Alfred E.,; Rétornaz, Valentin,; Schrama, Wendy,; Spector, Robert G.,; Strautins, Edgars,; Volders, Bart,; Xiao, Fang,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonomi, Andrea,; Sarcevic, Petar,
• Place / Publishing House: Munich : : Otto Schmidt/De Gruyter european law pub, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Yearbook of Private International Law ; Volume VIII
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Doctrine -- Three Steps With Petar Šarčević -- IS A CONFLICT RULE FOR LIVING WILLS AND EUTHANASIA NEEDED? -- THE EVALUATION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGES AND REGISTERED PARTNERSHIPS IN THE NETHERLANDS -- COMPETENCE OF THE COMMUNITY TO CONCLUDE THE REVISED LUGANO CONVENTION ON JURISDICTION AND THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS -- THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AND THE PRINCIPLES OF COMITY: EVIDENCE IN TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION -- NATIONALITY AND THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACROSS FRONTIERS, AND THE EXAMPLE OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION -- WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG IN THE ECJ’S JUDGMENT ON EUROFOOD IFSC LTD -- INTERACTION AND INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE LEGAL SYSTEMS OF HONG KONG, MACAO AND MAINLAND CHINA 50 YEARS AFTER THEIR RETURN TO CHINA -- SET-OFF AND THE ROME I PROPOSAL -- INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION IN JAPAN -- REFORM OF JAPAN’S PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: ACT ON THE GENERAL RULES OF THE APPLICATION OF LAWS -- SAME-SEX MARRIAGES, DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: AT THE DAWN OF A NEW JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES -- National Reports -- THE HAGUE CONFERENCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN AFRICA: A PLEA FOR COOPERATION -- THE FRENCH DIPTYCH ON FOREIGN LAW: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH ITS MOST RECENT RETOUCHING -- LAW RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION IN INDIA -- CODIFICATION OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE CIVIL CODE OF QATAR -- Court Decisions -- CHINA. ENFORCEMENT OF ARBITRATION CLAUSES: REMARKS ON TWO MAY 10, 2005 DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME PEOPLE’S COURT OF CHINA -- GREECE. THREE RECENT GREEK CASES ON THE BRUSSELS CONVENTION -- LATVIA. TWO 2005 LATVIAN SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE -- SPAIN. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW PROBLEMS RELATING TO THE CELEBRATION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: DGRN OF 29 JULY 2005 -- SWITZERLAND. CHALLENGING AN ARBITRAL AWARD FOR INFRINGEMENT OF COMPETITION LAW: THE TERRA ARMATA DECISION OF THE SWISS FEDERAL TRIBUNAL OF 8 MARCH 2006 -- UNITED KINGDOM AN AGE-OLD DILEMMA: IS IT TIME FOR A ‘REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH’?∗ -- Forum -- THE SCOPE OF SECONDARY COMMUNITY LAW IN THE LIGHT OF THE METHODS OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW – OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND? -- THE COURT OF JUSTICE, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW -- Texts, Materials and Recent Developments -- NEW CHOICE OF LAW RULES FOR CAPACITY TO MARRY AND THE RECOGNITION OF MARRIAGE IN SWEDEN – A NEW PRINCIPLE? -- TUNISIA. ART. 54(1) OF THE TUNISIAN CODE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW -- TRANSLATION OF JAPAN’S PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: ACT ON THE GENERAL RULES OF APPLICATION OF LAWS (HÔ NO TEKIYÔ NI KANSURU TSÛSOKUHÔ), LAW NO. 10 OF 1898, AS NEWLY TITLED AND AMENDED 21 JUNE 2006 -- BOOKS RECEIVED -- Backmatter