Full Description
This comprehensive Companion is a unique guide to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to developing multilateral legal instruments pertaining to personal, family and commercial legal situations that cross national borders. The Companion is a critical assessment of, and reflection on, past and possible future contributions of the HCCH to the further development and unification of private international law. Written by international experts who have all directly or indirectly contributed to the work of the HCCH, chapters analyse its structure and working methods, as well as explore its significant achievements in the areas of international family law, civil procedure, legal cooperation, commercial and finance law. The contributors also discuss the many challenges both the HCCH and other global organisations are facing, including the advent of regionalism and renewed nationalism.
Scholars and students of private international law, as well as private legal practitioners and members of the judiciary, will find this book to be crucial reading. Those working at other international organisations such as NGOs, banks and businesses will also find its insights into the workings of a successful international organisation beneficial.
Contents
Contents:
Foreword I xxi
Christophe Bernasconi
Foreword II xxiv
Lord Collins
Editors' introduction to the Elgar companion to the HCCH xxv
PART I HCCH: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
SECTION 1 - HCCH AS AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION
1 The Netherlands Standing Government Committee on Private
International Law 3
Paul Vlas
2 The HCCH and functional immunity: on origins, scope, and access to court 11
Guido den Dekker
3 The three sisters of private international law: an increasingly
co-operative family rather than sibling rivals 23
William Brydie-Watson
SECTION 2 - HCCH AS AN ORGANISATION WITH GLOBAL REACH
4 The HCCH's development in Latin America and the Caribbean 42
Nuria Gonzalez-Martin
5 The HCCH's development in Africa 52
Richard Frimpong Oppong and Pontian N. Okoli
6 The HCCH's development in the Asia-Pacific region 61
Yuko Nishitani
SECTION 3 - HCCH AS A DRIVER OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
7 The work of the HCCH and the path of the law: the politics of
difference in unified private international law 79
Horatia Muir Watt
8 The role of the HCCH in shaping private international law 112
Jan von Hein
9 Regulatory competition and the 2015 Choice of Law Principles 128
Giesela Rühl
10 The HCCH and legal co-operation - shaping the fourth dimension of
private international law 150
Lukas Rass-Masson
11 The effect of 'ordre public' and mandatory forum law on the work of
the HCCH: reflections from the Australian common law 160
Christopher Ward and Philip Santucci
PART II HCCH: CURRENT INSTRUMENTS
SECTION 1 - HCCH FAMILY LAW INSTRUMENTS
12 The HCCH and its Conventions relating to marriages 173
Patrick Wautelet
13 The 1980 Child Abduction Convention - the status quo and future challenges 183
Diana Bryant
14 The 1993 Intercountry Adoption Convention: from 'gift child' to safer
adoptions 198
Sai Ramani Garimella and Shivika Choudhary
15 International family law and child protection in Latin America:
achievements and shortcomings, challenges posed by the 1996 Child
Protection Convention 214
Nieve Rubaja
16 The 2000 Adult Protection Convention - sleeping beauty or too
complex to implement? 226
Richard Frimston
17 The HCCH and maintenance obligations 236
Nadia de Araujo
18 Mediation in international children's cases 249
Melissa Kucinski
19 Child protection in private international law - a HCCH success story? 259
Yuko Nishitani
SECTION 2 - HCCH CIVIL PROCEDURE, CROSS-BORDER
LITIGATION AND LEGAL CO-OPERATION INSTRUMENTS
20 The 1961 Apostille Convention - authenticating documents for
international use 277
Peter Zablud
21 The 1965 Service and 1970 Evidence Conventions as crucial bridges
between legal traditions? 288
Vincent Richard and Burkhard Hess
22 The 2005 Choice of Court Convention - the triumph of party autonomy 298
Ronald A. Brand
23 The Judgments Project: fulfilling Asser's dream of free-flowing judgments 309
Richard Garnett
SECTION 3 - HCCH COMMERCIAL AND FINANCE INSTRUMENT
24 Bridging the common law-civil law divide? The 1985 Trusts Convention 323
Adeline Chong
25 The 2006 Securities Convention: background, purpose and future 336
Guy Morton
26 Advocating party autonomy in private international law - the 2015
Choice of Law Principles 349
José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez
PART III HCCH: CURRENT AND POSSIBLE FUTURE PRIORITIES
SECTION 1 - CURRENT PRIORITIES OF THE HCCH
27 Parentage and international surrogacy - common solutions for
a contentious issue? 361
María Mercedes Albornoz
28 Global governance and co-operation on tourist-consumer matters:
arguments in favour of a legal instrument to protect international
tourists at the HCCH 373
Claudia Lima Marques and Tatiana Cardoso Squeff
29 Forum non conveniens: a comparative perspective 390
Philippa Webb
SECTION 2 - POSSIBLE FUTURE PRIORITIES OF THE HCCH?
30 Is private international law tech-proof? Conflict of laws and FinTech:
selected issues 406
Francisco J. Garcimartín Alférez and Sara Sánchez Fernández
31 Private international law and international commercial arbitration -
a role for the HCCH? 416
Alexander Grebelsky
32 The digitisation of legal co-operation - reshaping the fourth dimension
of private international law 428
Florian Heindler
33 Complex contractual relationships - is there a need for special private
international law rules on contractual chains and networks? 439
Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit and Ifeoma Obi
34 The (uneasy) relationship between the HCCH and information technology 449
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
35 Of giggers and digital nomads - what role for the HCCH in developing
a regulatory regime for highly mobile international employees 464
Geert van Calster
Glossary to the Elgar companion to the HCCH 479
Index 485
