Diversity and Integration in Private International Law

· Edinburgh University Press
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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 FeaturesOpens 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 issuesPromotes 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 integrationProvides timely insights on the significance of the Brexit vote for rethinking the challenges that legal diversity poses for an integration projectBringing 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 includeInternational cooperation in civil and commercial mattersLabour migration and other migration issues more generallyCross-border family issuesConsumer protectionPrivate international law of successionInternational contractsArbitration and private international lawList of ContributorsMercedes Albornoz, Professor of Private International Law, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (México) Beatriz Añoveros 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 Católica 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 República (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. Fernández Arroyo, Professor of Law, SciencesPo, Paris (France)Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de la República (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 Badán, Emeritus Professor of Private International Law. Universidad de la República (Uruguay)Sebastián Paredes, Assistant Professor of Private International Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)...

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Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm is Senior Lecturer in International Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in the field of private international law. Her teaching and research span several countries in Europe and South America. She is Vice President of the European Law Faculties Association. María Blanca Noodt Taquela is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Buenos Aires. She has authored several books and articles on Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration.

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