Yearbook of Private International Law

P. ŠARČEVIĆ; P. VOLKEN, eds., Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume 1-1999, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 1999, XI + 374 pp. There is, of course, a yearbook dealing with one important field within private international law, namely civil procedure: Zeitschriftfiir Ztvilprozef international — Jahrbuch des International ZMlprozefirechts (ZZPInt, Cologne, since 1996), reviewed by G. Wagner, 8 ZEuP (2000) pp. 762–764. 〈http://www.hcch.net〉. See already J. Basedow, ‘La reconnaissance des divorces etrangers — Droit positif allemand et politique legislative europeenne’, 67 Rev. crit. dr. int. priv. (1978) pp. 461–482. See also (as to same-sex relationships) the country reports in J. Basedow, et al., eds., Die Rechtsstellung gleichgeschlechtlicher Lebensgemeinschaften (Tubingen, Mohr 2000). H.U. Jessurun d’Oliveira, Het migratierecht en zijn dynamiek: Het artefact van het ‘schijnhuwelijk’ [The dynamics of migration law: the artifact of ‘sham marriages’] (Deventer, Kluwer 1998). For recent criticism of the nationality principle see F.K. Juenger, “The National Law Principle”, in J.F. Gerkens, et al., eds., Melanges Fritz Sturm, Vol. II (Liege, Editions Juridiques de l’Universite de Liege 1999) pp. 1519–1537; J. Basedow, ‘The Effects of Globalization on Private International Law’, in J. Basedow and T. Kono, eds., Legal Aspects of Globalization (The Hague, Kluwer Law International 2000) pp. 1-10 at pp. 8-9. Cf, F.K. Juenger, ‘The Need for a Comparative Approach to Choice-of-Law Problems’, 73 Tul. LRev. (1999) pp. 1309–1335. See G. Kegel, ‘Story and Savigny’, 37 AJCL (1989) pp. 39–66. The most forceful rebuttal of such unilateral tendencies, combined with a reconception of classical (Savignyan) private international law endorsing new developments, is still K. Schurig, Kollisionsnorm und Sachrecht (Berlin, Duncker and Humblot 1981); see most recently G. Kegel and K. Schurig, Internationales Privatrecht, 8th edn. (Munich, Beck 2000). See R. Fentiman, [National Report — England], in S. Symeonides, ed., Private International Law at the End of the 20th Century: Progress or Regress? (The Hague, Kluwer Law International 2000) pp. 165–190 at p. 189. See already B. Audit, ‘A Continental Lawyer Looks at Contemporary American Choice-of-Law Principles’, 27 AJCL (1979) pp. 589–603. For such a project see N. Hatzimihail, ‘On Mapping the Conceptual Battlefield of Private International Law’, in 13 Hague Yearbook of International Law (2000) (forthcoming). G. Parra-Aranguren, ‘The Venezuelan 1998 Act on Private International Law’, 46 NILR (1999) pp. 383–394; G. Parra-Aranguren, ‘La loi venezuelienne de 1998 sur le droit international prive’, 88 Rev. crit. dr. int. priv. (1999) pp. 209-226 with text in French idem at p. 392. Cf., T.B. de Maekelt, ‘Das neue venezolanische Gesetz iiber Internationales Privatrecht’, 64 RabelsZ (2000) pp. 299-344, text (Spanish/German) idem at p. 358. On which see F.K. Juenger, ‘Contract Choice of Laws in the Americas’, 45 AJCL (1997) pp. 198–208; J. Samtleben, ‘Versuch iiber die Konvention von Mexiko iiber das auf internationale Schuldvertrage anwendbare Recht’, 18 IPRax (1998) pp. 385-394. With regard to the UNIDROIT Principles see also R. Michaels, ‘Privatautonomie und Privatkodifikation’, 62 RabelsZ (1998) pp. 580-626. A comprehensive presentation is F. Madl and L. Vekas, The Law of Conflicts and of International Economic Relations (Budapest, Akademiai Kiado 1998). See also, with a different focus, Huang Jin, ‘The Structure of China’s Conflicts Law: New Developments of the Rules on Special Commercial Law’, 45 NILR (1998) pp. 188–207; Huang Jin, ‘Commentaries on the Conflict Law in International Commercial Matters in China’, 〈http://www.ieem.org.mo/projects/ecli/index.html〉. See already Ma Lin, ‘Die gegenwartige Entwicklung des chinesischen Internationalen Privatrechts — IPR-Gesetzesentwurf in der Volksrepublik China’, 15 IPRax (1995) pp. 334–337. A. Bonomi, Le norme imperative nel diritto intemazionale privato (Zurich, Schulthess 1998) (reviewed by B. Ancel, 87 Rev. crit. dr. int. priv. (1998) pp. 809-813; V. Tomljenovic, Pomorsko medunarodno privatno pravo — izvanugovorna odgovornost za Stetu 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).