Encyclopedia of Private International Law

• Published in: Reference reviews 2018-08, Vol.32 (6), p.11-13
• Main Author: Ward, Latia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 20th century; 21st century; Case law; Citations; Encyclopedias; Higher education; Human rights; International; International law; Internet; Jurisdiction; Researchers
• ISSN: 0950-4125; 1758-7697
• DOI: 10.1108/RR-04-2018-0060

The entries section includes articles entitled Absence (discussing when a person disappears and comparing four different legal models for dealing with disappearances), Aldricus (providing a biographical overview of a twelfth century Italian scholar who was the first to study how the law of different jurisdictions affects legal relationships), Antidiscrimination (covering human rights, contractual obligations and the sale of goods among other topics), Jurisdiction, Contracts and Torts, Lease Contracts and Tenancies (providing an overview of leases and related contracts in addition to an overview of the comparative law aspect of lease law), Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (discussing a nineteenth century Italian conflicts lawyer), Names of Individuals (discussing the law of names and providing an overview of relevant case law in the European Court of Justice), Ernst Rabel (discussing a late nineteenth and early twentieth century Austrian lawyer who urged the founding of the first Institute of Comparative Law), Lex Fori (discussing the history of the concept as well as the impact of work by scholars such as Carl Georg von Wächter, Brainerd Currie, and Albert Armin Ehrenzweig), Surrogacy (discussing the regulation of surrogacy in nations that support the practice as well as nations that do not support the practice) and the West Balkan Convention (discussing a meeting of representatives of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia in which a Draft Regional Convention pertaining to civil and commercial matters, property rights, bankruptcy, social security and arbitration was generated). Given the entries entitled Electronic Commerce, Internet Jurisdiction and Internet liability, I expected an entry on the right to be forgotten (a right that encompasses people’s ability to have their personal information removed from the search results of Internet search engines) (Carter, 2016). In the Preface, the editors (Jürgen Basedow, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and a professor at the University of Hamburg; Giesela Rühl, a professor at the University of Jena; Franco Ferrari, a professor at New York University; and Pedro de Miguel Asensio, a professor at Complutense University of Madrid) note that private international law was primarily European before Second World War, but now includes jurisdictions outside Europe. [...]interest in private international law exploded after the end of the Cold War.