Research Methods in Private International Law

Edited by Xandra Kramer, Professor of Private Law, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Professor of Private International Law, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Contents:

Preface xi
1 Private international law in a global world: a revival of
methodologies and research methods 1
Laura Carballo Piñeiro and Xandra Kramer

PART I PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND REGULATORY APPROACHES
2 Politics and private international law 19
Christopher A. Whytock
3 Private international law and human rights 37
Patrick Kinsch
4 Conflict of methods in private international law: a legal theory
perspective 55
María Carlota Ucín
5 Between flexibility and certainty: navigating between hard law
and soft law in private international law 73
Marta Pertegás
6 The private side of private international law: deregulation and
private autonomy 87
Cristina M. Mariottini
7 Recognition – a methodology without a method? 107
Dulce Lopes

PART II MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES
8 Private international law will be comparative or it will be nothing 129
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
9 Empirical methods and private international law 155
Christoph A. Kern
10 Economic analysis of private international law 172
Giesela Rühl
11 The methodological influence of European private
international law on domestic legal systems: a downstream analysis 200
Adriani Dori
12 Private international law meets technology 222
Marco Giacalone and Paola Giacalone

PART III SHAPING THE FUTURE THROUGH PRIVATE
INTERNATIONAL LAW METHODOLOGY
13 Towards private international law for everyone 246
Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Ralf Michaels
14 Feminist approaches to private international law 265
Mary Keyes
15 India’s private international law rules: persistence of colonial
law in a post-colonial state: a TWAIL-ean exploration 286
Sai Ramani Garimella
16 Private international law and teaching methodology:
a Nigerian perspective 313
Abubakri Yekini and Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli
17 Private international law and teaching methodology in Mexico 336
María Mercedes Albornoz and Nuria González Martín
18 Teaching private international law: a view from the Netherlands 358
Aukje A.H. van Hoek