"I have no qualms in presenting this Yearbook as a most valuable source of information to those whose main area of scholarship and professional interest revolves around private international law. This is, in essence, a fair assessment of the Yearbook's main accomplishment."
The American Review of International Arbitration, 11:3 (2000), re Volume I of the Yearbook

Contents of "Yearbook of Private International Law - Vol. V (2003)":

Doctrine:

Symeon Symeonides: Resolving Punitive-Damages Conflicts

Ronald A. Brand: The Hague Conference Working Group Draft Text on Choice of Court Agreements

Andrea Bonomi: Conversion of the Rome Convention on Contracts into an EC Instrument: Some Remarks on the Green Paper of the EC Commission


National Reports:

Kwang Hyun Suk: The New Conflict of Laws Act of the Republic of Korea

Christa Jessel-Holst: Current State and Future Perspectives of Bulgarian Private International Law

Kreso Puharic: Private International Law in Slovenia


News from The Hague:

J.H.A. van Loon: The Hague Conference on Private International Law - Work in Progress (2002-2003)


News from Brussels:

Marie-Odile Baur: Projects of the European Community in the Field of Private International Law


Forum:

Alain Devers: Private International Law Aspects of Non-Marital Unions: Some French Reflections on the Applicable Law

Michael Traest: Development of a European Private International Law and the Hague Conference


Texts, Materials and Recent Developments:

Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary

Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgements in Matrimonial Matters of Parental Responsibility repealing Regulation (EC) No. 1347/2000

Law Amending the Conflict of Laws Act of the Republic of Korea (Law No. 6465 of 7 April 2001)

Institute of International Law, Session of Bruges, 2003: Resolution on the Doctrine of Forum non conveniens and Anti-Suit Injunctions

Institute of International Law, Session of Bruges, 2003: Declaration on Multiparty Arbitration

Proposal for a Regulation by the European Parliament and the Council on the Law Applicable to Non-contractual Obligations ("Rome II")


Book Reviews:

Petar Sarcevic: von Mehren, Theory and Practice of Adjudicatory Authority in Private International Law

Andrea Bonomi: Fernandez Arroyo (ed.): Derecho Internacional Privado de los Estados del MERCOSUR


Books Received

Index

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