YEARBOOK OF PRIVE INTERNATIOAL LAW VOLUME XIII-2011

Doctrine 1

Multiple Nationalities and EU Private International Law - Many Questions and Some Tentative Answers&Stefania BERMANN 1

Parallel Litigation: Is Convergence Possible?&George A. BERMANN 21

Private International Law Topics Before the European Court of Human Rights - Selected Judgments and Decisions (2010-2011)&Patrick KINSCH 37

The Powers of the English Court to Support an Arbitration in "Foreign Seat" and "No Seat" Cases&Jonathan HILL 51

Border Skirmishes between Courts and Arbitral Tribunals in the EU: Finality in Conflicts of Competence&Christa ROODT 91

Conflict of Laws in Emissions Trading&Koji TAKAHASHI 145

The CISG Before the Courts of Non-Contracting States? Take Foreign Sales Law as You Find It&Thomas KADNER GRAZIANO 165

European Family Private International Law 183

The Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Property Consequences of Registered Partnerships&Cristina GONZALEZ BEILFUSS 183

The EU Proposal on Matrimonial Property Regimes - Some General Remarks&Ilaria VIARENGO 199

The Interaction among the Future EU Instruments on Matrimonial Property, Registered Partnerships and Successions&Andrea BONOMI 217

The Coordination of the EU Regulations on Divorce and Legal Separation with the Proposal on Matrimonial Property Regimes&Beatriz CAMPUZANO DIAZ 233

Matrimonial Matters and the Harmonization of Conflict of Laws: A Way to Reduce the Role of Public Policy as a Ground for Non-Recognition of Judgments&Simone MARINAI 255

Application of Foreign Law 273

Harmonization of Private International Law in Europe and Application of Foreign Law: The "Madrid Principles" of 2010&Carlos ESPLUGUES MOTA 273

A Proposed Model to Facilitate Access to Foreign Law&Shaheeza LALANI 299

News from Brussels 315

The EU Optional Instrument: Absorbing the Private International Law Implications of a Common European Sales Law&Mel KENNY / Lorna GILLIES / James DEVENNEY 315

News from Rome 345

UNIDROIT's Recent Work: An Appraisal&Alessandra ZANOBETTI 345

National Reports 367

New Provisions on International Jurisdiction of Japanese Courts&Yasuhiro OKUDA 367

Introduction to the New Polish Act on Private International Law of 4 February 2011&Tomasz PAJOR 381

Codification and Consolidation of Dutch Private International Law: The Book 10 Civil Code of the Netherlands&Mathijs H. TEN WOLDE 389

An Overview of the Private International Law of Iran: Theory and Practice (Part Two)&Seyed N. EBRAHIMI 413

Application of the EU Private International Law Instruments in Bulgaria&Nikolay NATOV / Boriana MUSSEVA / Teodora TSENOVA /Dafina SARBINOVA / Zahari YANAKEV / Vasil PANDOV 443

Trusts and the Principality of Monaco&William EASUN / Geraldine GAZO 467

Court Decisions 483

Defamation on the Internet, forum delicti and the E-Commerce Directive: Some Comments on the EC J Judgment in the eDate Case&Michael BOGDAN 483

The ECJ eDate Decision: A Case Comment&Michel REYMOND 493

Exclusive Jurisdiction under Art. 22(2) of the Brussels I Regulation: The ECJ Decision Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe v JP Morgan Chase Bank (C-144/10)&Matthias LEHMANN 507

Medical Malpractice and Conflict of Laws: Two Recent Judgments by the German Federal Court of JusticeJan VON HEIN 523

Kun FANThe Risks of Apparent Bias when an Arbitrator Acts as a Mediator -Remarks on Hong Kong Court's Decision in Gao Haiyan 535

Forum 557

The Relationship between EU Law and Private International Law Revisited: Of Diagonal Conflicts and the Means to Resolve Them&Jeremy HEYMANN 557

Cross-Border Credit Protection against Fraudulent Transfers of Assets -Actio pauliana in the Conflict of Laws&Ilaria PRETELLI 589

Texts, Materials and Recent Developments 641

The New Polish Act on Private International Law of 4 February 2011 (translation by Maciej ZACHARIASIEWICZ) 641

Dutch Civil Code Book 10 - On the Conflict of Laws (19 May 2011) (translation by M.H. TEN WOLDE/ J.G. KNOT/N.A. BAARSMA) 657

Index 695