Friday, July 20, 2007

New Volume: Yearbook of Private International Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (Vol. 8, 2006) is out. Contents include:
  • 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