The Common Optional Matrimonial Property Regime of Germany and France – Epoch-Making in the Unification of Law

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Foreword XI
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Doctrine
6. Party Autonomy in International Family and Succession Law: New Tendencies 1
7. After the Revolution – Decline and Return of U.S. Conflict of Laws 11
8. Private International Law and Comparative Law: A Relationship Challenged by International and Supranational Law 31
9. Damages for Breach of a Choice-of-Court Agreement: Remaining Issues 73
10. A Further Step Towards a European Code of Private International Law: The Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Succession 107
11. Personal Identity at a Crossroad between Private International Law, International Protection of Human Rights and EU Law 143
12. The Application of Foreign Law: A Progress Report on a New European Project 157
13. Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods: Jurisdiction and Arbitration under the New UNCITRAL Convention 2008 171
14. Private International Law in China – Selected Topics
15. Contractual Party Autonomy in Chinese Private International Law 193
16. Recent Developments with Regards to Choice of Law in Tort in China 211
17. 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
18. Law Applicable to Arbitration Agreements in China 255
19. Foreign Precedents in Chinese Courts 265
20. Crime of Law-Bending Arbitration in Chinese Criminal Law and Its Effects on International Commercial Arbitration 283
21. Law Applicable to Arbitration Clauses in China: Comments on the Chinese People's Supreme Court's Decision in the Hengji Company Case 297
22. National Reports
23. The Latest Trends in Latin American Private International Law: the Uruguayan 2009 General Law on Private International Law 305
24. The Influence of Swiss Law on Quebec's 1994 Codification of Private International Law 339
25. Initial Ownership of Copyright in a Cinematographic Work under Japanese Private International Law 375
26. Less Surprises for Spouses Moving Within the Nordic Countries? Amendments to the 1931 Nordic Convention on Marriage 385
27. The Common Optional Matrimonial Property Regime of Germany and France – Epoch-Making in the Unification of Law 395
28. News from UNCITRAL
29. International Insolvency Law: the UNCITRAL Experience with Harmonisation and Modernisation Techniques 405
30. Court Decisions
31. 'Mutual Trust' and 'Arbitration Exception' in the European Judicial Area: The West Tankers Judgment of the ECJ 427
32. 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
33. Effet Utile of the Regulation No. 1346 and Vis Attractiva Concursus. Some Remarks on the Deko Marty Judgment 469
34. Jurisdiction to Set Aside Foreign Arbitral Awards in India: Some Remarks on an Erroneous Rule of Law 481
35. Forum non conveniens and Lis alibi pendens in International Litigation in Panama 497
36. Forum
37. Lis Alibi Pendens and Related Actions in Civil and Commercial Matters Within the European Judicial Area 511
38. Money in Private International Law: What Are the Problems? What Are the Solutions? 565
39. Intellectual Property and State Immunity from Jurisdiction in the New York Convention of 2004 599
40. Index 627