States commit to protect citizens' rights through international treaties. With globalization, however, cross-border transactions and transnational relationships have increased the role of non-state actors, in particular corporations. While corporations have indeed transformed the international...

States commit to protect citizens' rights through international treaties. With globalization, however, cross-border transactions and transnational relationships have increased the role of non-state actors, in particular corporations. While corporations have indeed transformed the international...

Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM’) is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient’ LM, which accompanied the...

The present article examines the evolution of conflict regulation in the private international law of Russia and Poland. The author identifies the concept, structure and types of conflict rules, stressing that the conflict of laws is the most important category of private international law. A...

If, at the level of the European Union, we can talk about a standardization of the conflict of laws rules regarding contracts starting with the Rome Convention of 1980 and, subsequently, about a unification of these rules through Regulation (EC) No. 593/2008, outside the EU, the other European...

In a world like today’s one, with communication, trade and the increasing cross-border travels, the issue of the conflict of laws appears in every aspect of the private law. It is important that every member of the legal community understands the conflict of laws. This is important especially...

This theoretical and practical part is related to the analysis and studies of the contractual obligations under the private international law. This work is divided into three parts, where respectively, the first part deals with the general part of the contractual obligations; the second part...

Starting from the somewhat unclear provisions of the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations (1980), now replaced by Regulation (EC) no. 593/2008, in the literature, some authors have speculated that its provisions could become applicable by the very designation, by the...

As sales contracts preformed within EU are governed by national contract laws, differences between them result in costly and complex cross-border trade. In order to remove this barrier to smooth functioning of the Single Market, in October 2011 the European Commission has proposed a Regulation...

This article investigates the concept of “comity”, discussed by Ulrich Huber (Dutch scholar of the XVIIth century). This author is the most typical representative of the Dutch theory of the conflict of law. Huber’s writings primarily reflected the doctrine of comity, which is the basis of...

В статье автор анализирует источники lex mercatoria в области финансовых рынков, а также практику их применения участниками рынка ценных бумаг Российской Федерации....

В статье дан краткий обзор современной концепции lex mercatoria, а также особой отрасли lex mercatoria, регулирующей отношения участников международного финансового рынка....

Одним из проявлений наиболее тесной связи в международном частном праве является ее выражение в качестве процессуальной категории. Анализ законодательства и...

Insbesondere seit der Verabschiedung der Kartellschadensersatzrichtlinie 2014/104/EU durch das Europäische Parlament und den Rat im Dezember 20141 gelangt die privatrechtliche Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung auch in Europa immer mehr in den Mittelpunkt der rechtswissenschaftlichen Diskussion. In...

Through this paper the author intends to analyze the amendments of the new regulation in the field of the Civil law – the general part, the natural and the legal persons and the rights in rem and in the area of the private international law. The new Civil Code, adopted by Law no. 287/2009,...

This paper argues that the relationship between law and politics must be reconfigured within the European Union. Dissecting recent crises in Europe with reference to the three ‘fictitious’ commodities of Karl Polanyi, we find that law in Europe has contributed to de-legalisation,...

Questions of Internet jurisdiction have attracted research ever since the Internet has become popular. Despite a long track of existing work in the area, a number of key issues remains unanswered to date. In particular, the subject matter of Internet jurisdiction has to be presented from an...

Wirtschaftlicher Austausch kann sich nur entwickeln, wenn er hinreichend gegen opportunistisches Verhalten abgesichert ist. In der globalisierten Wirtschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts werden grenzüberschreitende Geschäfte meist nicht durch staatliche Gerichte, sondern durch "Private Ordering" und...

Questions of Internet jurisdiction have attracted research ever since the Internet has become popular. Despite a long track of existing work in the area, a number of key issues remains unanswered to date. In particular, the subject matter of Internet jurisdiction has to be presented from an...

'Constitutionalisation' is the key concept in the search for legitimate governance in the European Union and in the international system. This paper suggests revitalising of a discipline which is widely neglected in European law and international law scholarship. It does not, however, recommend...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> Economic law and private international law also known as conflict of law, have complex relationships, especially in this globalization context. As a legal expression of the State regulatory power aiming at defining and regulating economic relationships and behaviors in the market, economic law...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> The interfaces between economic law and mandatory rules or ?lois de police?, are obvious since economic law rules are related to the public order, and are of mandatory character in nature. The trend we have witnessed toward the internationalization of the economic law is a direct consequence of...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> We witnessed an increased internationalization of anti competitive practices and restrictive business practices, among which abuses of economic dominance could be mentioned. This phenomenon, a major consequence of the globalization of the economy, makes the interfaces between economic law and...