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P. Šarčević; P. Volken, eds., Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume 1-1999, Kluwer Law International, The Hague1999, XI + 374 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Ralf Michaels
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Joseph Story Fellow, Harvard Law School
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1. There is, of course, a yearbook dealing with one important field within private international law, namely civil procedure: Zeitschrift für Zivilprozeβ international – Jahrbuch des Internationalen Zivilprozeβrechts (ZZPInt, Cologne, since 1996), reviewed by G., Wagner, 8 ZEuP (2000) pp. 762764.Google Scholar

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5. d'Oliveira, H.U. Jessurun, Het migratierecht en zijn dynamiek: Het artefact van het ‘schijnhuwelijk’ [The dynamics of migration law: the artifact o f ‘sham marriages’] (Deventer, Kluwer 1998).Google Scholar

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9. The most forceful rebuttal of such unilateral tendencies, combined with a reconception of classical (Savignyan) private international law endorsing new developments, is still Schurig, K., Kollisionsnorm und Sachrecht (Berlin, Duncker and Humblot 1981); see most recentlyGoogle ScholarKegel, G. and Schurig, K., Internationales Privatrecht, 8th edn. (Munich, Beck 2000).Google Scholar

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12. For such a project see Hatzimihail, N., ‘On Mapping the Conceptual Battlefield of Private International Law’, in 13 Hague Yearbook of International Law (2000) (forthcoming).Google Scholar

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14. On which see Juenger, F.K., ‘Contract Choice of Laws in the Americas’, 45 AJCL (1997) pp. 198208;CrossRefGoogle ScholarSamtleben, J., ‘Versuch iiber die Konvention von Mexiko über das auf internationale Schuldverträge anwendbare Recht’, 18 IPRax (1998) pp. 385394. With regard to the UNIDROIT Principles see alsoGoogle ScholarMichaels, R., ‘Privatautonomie und Privatkodifikation’, 62 RabelsZ (1998) pp. 580626.Google Scholar

15. A comprehensive presentation is Mádl, F. and Vékás, L., The Law of Conflicts and of International Economic Relations (Budapest, Akademiai Kiado 1998).Google Scholar

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17. See already Lin, Ma, ‘Die gegenwärtige Entwicklung des chinesischen Internationalen Privatrechts – IPR-Gesetzesentwurf in der Volksrepublik China’, 15 IPRax (1995) pp. 334337.Google Scholar

18. Bonomi, A., Le norme imperative nel diritto intemazionale privato (Zurich, Schulthess 1998) (reviewed by B., Ancel, 87 Rev. crit. dr. int. priv. (1998) pp. 809813;Google ScholarTomljenović, V., Pomorsko medunarodno privatno pravo – izvanugovorna odgovornost za štetu i problem izbora jerodavnog prava [Maritime Private International Law – Extra-Contractual Liability for Damages and Problem of Applicable Law] (Rijeka, Library of the Law Faculty University of Rijeka 1998).Google Scholar