Diversity and Integration in Private International Law

Bringing together academics and private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions and institutions, this volume explores how private international law can best contribute to the development of the global legal architecture needed to integrate our emerging multicultural world society.

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How can private international law contribute to the development of the legal architecture needed to integrate our emerging multi-cultural society? Key Features

Opens a cross-regional dialogue, shifting the Eurocentric discussion on diversity and integration to a more inclusive engagement with the Global South in private international law issues
Promotes a cosmopolitan vision of private international law, as a discipline with the potential to transcend its boundaries to further promote the reality of cross-border integration
Provides timely insights on the significance of the Brexit vote for rethinking the challenges that legal diversity poses for an integration project

Bringing together world-renowned academics and experienced private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions in Europe and South America, this book explores how the methodologies and techniques of private international law can be used to engage with legal diversity. The contributors explore ways forward and set out a vision of private international law connected to the communication, coordination, cooperation and engagement between legal orders. It provides in-depth analysis of the role of private international law in dealing with legal diversity across a diverse range of topics.

Topics covered include

International cooperation in civil and commercial matters
Labour migration and other migration issues more generally
Cross-border family issues
Consumer protection
Private international law of succession
International contracts
Arbitration and private international law

List of Contributors Mercedes Albornoz, Professor of Private International Law, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) (Mexico)

Beatriz Anoveros Terradas, Associate Professor of Private international law, ESADE Law School Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona (Spain)

Nadia de Araujo, Professor of Private International Law, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Guillermo Argerich, Professor of Private International Law, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Laura Capalbo, Associate Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay)

Laura Carballo, Professor, Nippon Foundation Chair, World Maritime University, Malmo (Sweden)

Janeen M. Carruthers, Professor of Private Law, University of Glasgow (Scotland)

Giuditta Cordero Moss, Professor of Private International Law, University of Oslo (Norway)

Rosario Espinosa Calabuig, Professor of Private International Law, Universitat de Valencia (Spain)

Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, Professor of Law, SciencesPo, Paris (France)

Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay)

Ignacio Goicoechea, Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Argentina)

Kasey McCall-Smith, Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

David McClean, Emeritus Professor of Private International Law, University of Sheffield (England)

Ralf Michaels, Arthur Larson Professor of Law, Duke University (United States)

Maria Blanca Noodt Taquela, Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Didier Opertti Badan, Emeritus Professor of Private International Law. Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay)

Sebastian Paredes, Assistant Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Fabricio Bertini Pasquot Polido, Associate Professor of Private International Law, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Marta Requejo Isidro, Max Planck Institute, (Luxembourg).

Nieve Rubaja, Assistant Professor of Private International Law, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Senior Lecturer in International Private Law, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Katarina Trimmings, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)

Hans van Loon, independent consultant, former Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (1996-2013) (Netherlands)

Nicola Wisdahl, Legal Officer, Scottish Government Office in Brussels (Scotland)

Burcu Yuksel, Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)