The "Yearbook of Private International Law" provides all about the conflict of laws developments of 2012 and 2013 in one book: Volume XIV (2012/2013) includes contributions on the proposed codification of the General Part of Private International Law in Europe, on the reform of the Chinese legal system as well as on defamation and violation of personality rights (the latter in a whole section). Furthermore, the book deals with the application of EU legislation on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgements, the recognition of judgements overturned by another judgement, and the conflict of decisions in international arbitration. Reports and court decisions from the Netherlands, Turkey, India, Finland, Croatia and Switzerland and a summary of two dissertations on the role of sovereignty and choice of courts agreements complete the book.

• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Abbreviations
• Doctrine
  • The Spatial Scope of the EU’s Rules on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments: From Bilateral Modus to Unilateral Universality?
  • Conflicting Decisions in International Commercial Arbitration
  • A Semiotics of Private International Legal Argument
  • Solving the Riddle of Conflicting Choice of Law Clauses in Battle of Forms Situations: The Hague Solution
  • Recognition of a Foreign Judgment Overturned by a Non-Recognisable Judgment
  • The Use of Force, Human Rights Violations and the Scope of the Brussels I Regulation
• A General Part for European Private International Law?
  • The Idea of a “Rome 0 Regulation”
  • The Methodology and the General Part of the Portuguese Private International Law Codification: A Possible Source of Inspiration for the European Legislator?
• Protection of Personality Rights
  • New Developments in the United Kingdom: The Defamation Act 2013
  • Internet Defamation, Freedom of Expression, and the Lessons of Private International Law for the United States
  • Jurisdiction in Case of Personality Torts Committed over the Internet: A Proposal for a Targeting Test
  • A Topless Duchess and Caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed: A Flexible Conflict of Laws Rule for Cross-Border Infringements of Privacy and Reputation
• The Chinese Private International Law Acts: Some Selected Issues
  • Creation and Perfection of China’s Law Applicable to Foreign-Related Civil Relations
  • Legislation and Practice on Proof of Foreign Law in China
  • Mandatory Rules in Private International Law in the People’s Republic of China
  • Changes to Habitual Residence in China’s lex personalis
  • The Codification of Conflict of Laws in China: What Has/Hasn’t Yet Been Done for Cross-Border Torts?
  • The Applicable Law to Rights in rem under the Act on the Law Applicable to Foreign-Related Civil Relations of the People’s Republic of China
  • The New Conflicts Rules for Family and Inheritance Matters in China
• News from Brussels
  • The Proposal for a Common European Sales Law: A Snapshot of the Debate
  • Key Points on the Determination of International Jurisdiction in the New EU Regulation on Succession and Wills
• National Reports
  • The Limitation and Scope of the Israeli Court’s International Jurisdiction in Succession Matters
  • Do You Speak Mareva? How Worldwide Freezing Orders Are Enforced in Switzerland
  • All Aboard for the Fertility Express: Surrogacy and Human Rights in India
  • Pleading and Proof of Foreign Law in Finland
  • The International Jurisdiction of Turkish Courts on Personal Status of Turkish Nationals
• Forum
  • Suing Corporations in a Global World: A Role for Transnational Jurisdictional Cooperation?
  • The Weakening of the Nation-State and Private International Law: The “Right to International Mobility”
  • Chaos Renewed: The Rome I Regulation vs Other Sources of EU Law: A Classification of Conflicting Provisions
• Index