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Pris: 1490 SEK exkl. moms  |  Edited by Petar Sarcevic (Founding Editor), Andrea Bonomi, Paul Volken, The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreword............................................................................................................. xi
Abbreviations ..................................................................................................... xiii
Doctrine
Erik JAYME
Party Autonomy in International Family and Succession Law:
New Tendencies ............................................................................................. 1
Ralf MICHAELS
After the Revolution – Decline and Return of U.S. Conflict of Laws ............ 11
Diego P. FERNÁNDEZ ARROYO
Private International Law and Comparative Law:
A Relationship Challenged by International and Supranational Law ............. 31
Koji TAKAHASHI
Damages for Breach of a Choice-of-Court Agreement:
Remaining Issues............................................................................................ 73
Eva LEIN
A Further Step Towards a European Code of Private International Law:
The Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Succession…………… 107
Giulia ROSSOLILLO
Personal Identity at a Crossroad between Private International Law,
International Protection of Human Rights and EU Law ................................. 143
Urs Peter GRUBER / Ivo BACH
The Application of Foreign Law: A Progress Report
on a New European Project ............................................................................ 157
Juan José ALVAREZ RUBIO
Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods: Jurisdiction and
Arbitration under the New UNCITRAL Convention 2008 ............................ 171
Private International Law in China – Selected Topics
Yongping XIAO / Weidi LONG
Contractual Party Autonomy in Chinese Private International Law .............. 193
Qisheng HE
Recent Developments with Regards to Choice of Law in Tort in China ........ 211
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Renshan LIU
Recent Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters between
Mainland China and Taiwan, the Hong Kong S.A.R.
and the Macao S.A.R. ................................................................................... 235
Weidong ZHU
Law Applicable to Arbitration Agreements in China .................................... 255
Yongping XIAO
Foreign Precedents in Chinese Courts ........................................................... 265
Guoqiang LUO (Steel ROMETIUS)
Crime of Law-Bending Arbitration in Chinese Criminal Law and
Its Effects on International Commercial Arbitration ..................................... 283
Fang XIAO
Law Applicable to Arbitration Clauses in China: Comments on the Chinese
People’s Supreme Court’s Decision in the Hengji Company Case ................ 297
National Reports
Didier OPERTTI BADÁN / Cecilia FRESNEDO DE AGUIRRE
The Latest Trends in Latin American Private International Law:
the Uruguayan 2009 General Law on Private International Law .................. 305
Jeffrey TALPIS / Gerald GOLDSTEIN
The Influence of Swiss Law on Quebec’s 1994 Codification of
Private International Law .............................................................................. 339
Yasuhiro OKUDA
Initial Ownership of Copyright in a Cinematographic Work under
Japanese Private International Law ............................................................... 375
Elisabeth MEURLING
Less Surprises for Spouses Moving Within the Nordic Countries?
Amendments to the 1931 Nordic Convention on Marriage ........................... 385
Andreas FÖTSCHL
The Common Optional Matrimonial Property Regime of Germany
and France – Epoch-Making in the Unification of Law ................................ 395
News from UNCITRAL
Jenny CLIFT
International Insolvency Law: the UNCITRAL Experience with
Harmonisation and Modernisation Techniques ............................................ 405
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Court Decisions
Zeno CRESPI REGHIZZI
‘Mutual Trust’ and ‘Arbitration Exception’ in the European Judicial
Area: The West Tankers Judgment of the ECJ ............................................... 427
Mary-Rose MCGUIRE
Jurisdiction in Cases Related to a Licence Contract Under Art. 5(1)
Brussels Regulation: Case-Note on Judgment ECJ Case C-533/07 –
Falco Privatstiftung and Thomas Rabitsch v. Gisela Weller-Lindhorst ......... 453
Antonio LEANDRO
Effet Utile of the Regulation No. 1346 and Vis Attractiva
Concursus. Some Remarks on the Deko Marty Judgment ............................. 469
Ben STEINBRÜCK
Jurisdiction to Set Aside Foreign Arbitral Awards in India:
Some Remarks on an Erroneous Rule of Law ................................................ 481
Gilberto BOUTIN
Forum non conveniens and Lis alibi pendens in
International Litigation in Panama ................................................................. 497
Forum
Fabrizio MARONGIU BUONAIUTI
Lis Alibi Pendens and Related Actions in Civil and Commercial
Matters Within the European Judicial Area ................................................... 511
Caroline KLEINER
Money in Private International Law: What Are the Problems?
What Are the Solutions? ................................................................................ 565
Benedetta UBERTAZZI
Intellectual Property and State Immunity from Jurisdiction in the
New York Convention of 2004 ...................................................................... 599
Index .................................................................................................................... 627
FOREWORD
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The current volume of the Yearbook attempts to strike a balance in the multifaceted
expressions of the increasing importance of private international law at national and
supranational levels.
The vitality of private international law within the European Union is
evidenced by both legislative projects and the rich case law of the European Court
of Justice. Among the former, one should first mention the recent Commission draft
for a Regulation on succession, which probably constitutes the most detailed and
ambitious attempt ever to codify private international law in this area. The draft not
only covers conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions with respect to succession,
but also ventures on the very delicate ground of the administration of estates,
including, among others, the project of a European Succession Certificate. While
this draft begins its legislative process, a new initiative on the application of foreign
law is being considered by the European institutions. Both of these developments
are discussed in the Doctrine section. In the section on court decisions, we report on
some interesting judgments of the ECJ interpreting existing regulations (such as
Brussels I and the insolvency regulation).
While the European institutions’ efforts towards the creation of a European
private international law system steadily continue, interesting developments are also
taking place on other continents. For example, the present volume includes a special
section focusing on Chinese private international law. A codification of conflict of
law rules will probably be adopted in China in the next few years, but the existing
case law, as well as the interpretation rules issued in certain areas by the Supreme
People’s Court, deserve increased, contemporary attention from foreign scholars.
The Yearbook also reports on the renewed interest with conflict of laws in the U.S.
doctrine and a new draft codification in Uruguay. National reports from Japan,
Panama and the Nordic countries should also be mentioned.
Among the highlights of this volume, we will also mention some important
theoretical contributions on the new role of party autonomy and on the controversial
relationship between private international law and comparative law.
Finally, the Forum section includes very interesting essays on two classical
and continuously disputed topics, lis alibi pendens and the private international law
aspects of money, and on the relatively new and challenging question of the
relationship between intellectual property and state immunity.
Andrea Bonomi,
Paul Volken
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