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.

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Private International Law as an Ethic of Responsivity
• PART I Legal Diversity and Integration
• 2 Embracing Diversity - The Role of the Hague Conference in the Creation of Universal Instrument
• 3 Managing Diversity in Cross-Border Succession Problems: A British Perspective
• 4 Cross-border Family Issues in the EU
• 5 Non-uniform Application of European Union Private International Law
• 6 On Private International Law, the EU and Brexit
• PART II Cooperation, the Architecture of Engagement
• 7 International Judicial Cooperation as the Architecture of Engagement
• 8 Judicial Cooperation: Resolving the Differing Approaches
• 9 Judicial Cooperation in South America: A Regional Perspective
• 10 Civil Judicial Cooperation: A Scottish Experience
• 11 The Judgments Project of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
• PART III The Evolving Focus on the Individual
• 12 Integrating Legal Approaches to Migration
• 13 Labour Migration and Private International Law
• 14 E-commerce and Consumer Protection in Integrated Markets
• 15 Protection of the Individual in Recent Private International Law Codification in Latin America
• 16 The Challenges of the New Social and Scientific Realities in Private International Family Law
• PART IV Private International Law in Practice
• 17 The Key Role of Judges in the Development of Private International Law
• 18 Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration
• 19 Demystifying Private International Law for International Commercial Contracts
• 20 Public Policy in Private International Law
• 21 Bridging and Balancing: Diversity and Integration in Private International Law
• Index