Foreword

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Foreword to Liber Amicorum Kurt Siehr (2000)

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I.

General Aspects Of Private International Law Law-Making

American vs. European Private International Law [–] The Case for a Model Conflict of Laws Act (MCLA)

3

Comparative and International Law in the United States [–] Mixed Signals / Talia Einhorn

37

Connecting Factors and Internationality in Conflict of Laws and Transnational Commercial Law / Peter Hay

57

Democratic Values in the Choice-of-Law Process / Herbert Kronke

71

Keine Berührungsangst des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts im Umgang mit Eingriffsnormen / James A.R. Nafziger

87

'Revolutionary Ideas' and the Swiss Statute on Private International Law / Anton K. Schnyder

101

Renvoi in Japanese Private International Law / Frank Vischer

113

II.

Family Relations And Succession / Jun Yokoyama

Protecting Children Against Detrimental Family Environments under the 1996 Hague Convention and the Brussels II bis Regulation / Jun Yokoyama

125

Choice-of-law Aspects of the Future EC Regulation in Matters of Succession [–] A First Glance at the Commission's Proposal / Katharina Boele-Woelki Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg

157

The Necessary Flexibility in the Application of the New Instruments on Maintenance / Andrea Bonomi

173

Conflict of Laws of Divorce: Judicial Practice and Legislative Development of Taiwan / Alegria Borrás

193

Future Developments in International Family Law with Special Emphasis on Cross-border Child Protection: A View from The Hague / Rong-chwan Chen

221

Der deutsche Nachlaßrichter and die amerikanische [„]tracing rule" im Internationalen Ehegüterrecht [–] Eine Problemskizze / William Duncan

243

From Nationality to Habitual Residence: Some brief remarks on the future EU Regulation on International Successions and Wills / Erik Jayme

251

Recognition in the Forum of a Status Acquired Abroad [–] Private International Law Rules and European Human Rights Law / Peter Kindler

259

Elliptiques variations sur un thème connu: compétence judiciaire, conflits de lois et reconnaissance de décisions en matière alimentaire d'après le règlement (CE) n⁰ 4/2009 du Conseil / Patrick Kinsch

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The Impact of the European Union's Prohibition of Discrimination and the Right of Free Movement of Persons on the Private International Law Rules of Member States [–] With comments on the Sayn-Wittgenstein Case before the European Court of Justice / Christian Kohler

291

On the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its application by the Supreme Court of Finland / Heinz-Peter Mansel

311

External Public Policy, the Incidental Question Properly So-called and the Recognition of Foreign Divorce Orders / Gustaf Möller

331

Surrogacy, a New Way to Become a Mother? A New PIL Issue / Jan L. Neels

357

III.

Contractual And Non-Contractual Obligations / A. V.M. Struycken

Some Reflections on Contracts and Torts in Cyberspace in view of Regulations Rome I and Rome II / A. V.M. Struycken

375

Cross-border Multimodal Transport [–] Problems and Limits of Finding an Appropriate Legal Regime / Michael Bogdan

389

UN-Kaufrecht and Verbraucher / Andreas Purser Michael Schürch

405

The Principle of Characteristic Performance Revisited Yet Again / Ulrich Magnus

433

Contracts of Carriage and the Conflict of Laws / Peter Mankowski

463

Presumptions, Escape Clauses and International Carriage of Goods Contracts / Robin Morse

481

Tourism, Conflict of Laws and the Rome I Regulation / Monika Paulcnerová

497

Party Autonomy in Rome I and II From a Comparative Perspective / Oliver Remien

513

Questions of Contract Law in the New Hungarian Civil Code / Symeon C. Symeonides

551

IV.

International Litigation And Arbitration / Lajos Vékás

The Validity of Choice of Court Agreements under the Brussels I Regulation and the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention / Lajos Vékás

563

Parallel Litigation: Is Convergence Possible? / Paul Beaumont Burcu Yüksel

579

Einige Überlegungen zu Schiedsgerichtsvereinbarungen and ihrer Wirksamkeit / George A. Bermann

595

Legal Capacity, Arbitration and Private International Law / Dagmar Coester-Walljen

619

New Impulses I'm the Ascertainment of Foreign Law in Civil Proceedings: A question of (inter)networking? / Giuditta Cordero Moss

635

Res Judicata Effects of Foreign Class Action Rulings in the EU Member States / Harry Duintjer Tebbens

653

Israeli Foreign Judgments Law: A Case for Codification? / Marc Fallon Dimitrios-Panagiotis Tzakas

671

The Linguistic Factor in the Circulation of Arbitral Awards and Some of its Pitfalls / Celia Wasserstein Fasshetx

687

La clause attributive tie juridiction, un moyen d'échapper aux lois de police? / Manlio Frigo

707

The Effects oiAssignmcnt on Arbitration Agreements. Why Conflict-of-1.1ms Theory is Still Needed / Hélène Gaudemet-Tallon

723

Observation of Group Affiliation (or: Cohabitation with the Impossible) in International Commercial Arbitration / Daniel Girsberger

745

The Validity of a Choice of Court Agreement Under the Hague Convention of 2005 / Tibor Várady

763

V.

Cultural Property / Spyridon Vrellis

Conflict of Laws with Folgerecht ('droit de suite') on the Sale of Works of Art in and out of Europe [–] after the EC Directive No. 2001/84 / Spyridon Vrellis

779

The van Meegeren Problem / Johan Erauw

821

Versunkene Welten. Rechtlicher Schutz des archäologischen Unterwasserkulturerbes / John Henry Merryman

833

The International Scope of Application of the Swiss Rules on the Due Diligence of Dealers in Cultural Property / Gerte Reichelt Suzan Topal-Gökceli

847

Schriftenverzeichnis/List of Publications of Kurt Siehr / Marc-André Renold

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List of Authors / Marc-André Renold

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