"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. VI (2004)":

Doctrine:

Jürgen Basedow/Jan von Hein/Dorothee Janzen/Hans-Jürgen Puttfarken: Foreign Revenue Claims in European Courts

François Dessemontet: International Private Law of Intellectual Property

Tito Ballarino/Benedetta Ubertazzi: On Avello and Other Judgments: A New Point of Departure in the Conflict of Laws?

Willibald Posch: The "Draft Regulation Rome II" in 2004: Its Past and Future Perspectives


General Issues of Private International Law in the European System - Reflections by Italien Scholars:

Roberto Baratta: The Process of Characterization in the EC Conflict of Laws: Suggesting a Flexible Approach

Luigi Fumagalli: EC Private International Law and the Public Policy Exception - Modern Features of a Traditional Concept


National Reports:

Cristina González Beilfuss: Non-Marital Cohabitation, Registered Partnership and Same-Sex Marriage in Private International Law: The Spanish Perspective

Andrzej Maczynski: Polish Private International Law

Peretz Segal/Myriam Miller: The Interface Between the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Future Hague Conference Instrument on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance - A Point of View from Israel


News from The Hague:

J.H.A. van Loon: The Hague Conference on Private International Law - Work in Progress (2003-2004)


Case Law:

Alfred E. von Overbeck: Swiss Decision on Foreign Mandatory Rules

Forum:

Florence Guillaume: The Law Governing Companies in Swiss Private International Law

Katia Fach Gómez: The Law Applicable to Cross-Border Environmental Damage: From the European National Systems To Rome II


Texts, Materials and Recent Developments:

Law of 16 July 2004 Holding the Code of Private International Law (Belgian Official Journal 27 July 2004 - in force as from 1 October 2004)


Book Reviews:

Mansel/Pfeiffer/Kronke/Kohler/Hausmann (ed.): Festschrift für Erik Jayme


Books Received

Index