Intellectual property and private international law' was one of the subjects discussed at the 18th International Congress of Comparative Law held in Washington (July 2010). This volume contains the General Report and 20 National Reports covering Canada, US, Japan, Korea, India and a number of...

This paper questions the notion of sustainable development as it is used in the convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. It is proposed to interpret this notion differently from the currently accepted regular meaning of the concept. Some parallels are made to the works of...

The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the world’s communities is an inheritance that has been passed down through many generations. Its survival, however, is increasingly threatened by the realities of post-modern society, such as rapid urbanisation, large-scale migration, severe...

The emergence of the Internet, and more recently cloud computing, has tremendous technological, economic, social as well as cultural effects. Such technological development certainly affects legal framework and calls for careful assessment whether, and, if so how, the existing legal principles...

The chapter “Applicable Law” of the International Law Association’s Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law (“Kyoto Guidelines”) provides principles on the choice of law in international intellectual property matters. The Guidelines confirm the traditional...

Immediately after the adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (“ICH Convention”) in 2003, UNESCO faced a new challenge. UNESCO had to find an answer to the delicate issue of how to deal with the audiovisual sector within a globalizing world driven by a...

This paper aims to review the current law and economics debate of the issues that surround private international law disputes. There have been various attempts to explain various aspects of cross-border disputes between individuals. The existing theories tend to focus on efficiency...

The emergence and development of global business activities, and the inception of the Internet have resulted in the creation of a new field of legal studies concerning cross-border enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights. This novel area of law is known as private international law and...

The paper provides for a critical and comparative analysis of the Rome II Regulation. Some arguments are introduced about how choice of law problems could be viewed from the law and economics perspective