The course is part of the 2023 Augsburg Summer Program.
The rules of private international law, a body of law also known as conflict of laws, address legal problems that arise when a court has to decide a dispute that involves a cross-border element. Such an element may arise when the dispute has contacts with more than one sovereign state or with different states within a federation. In such disputes, the judge has to decide according to which law the case must be decided (local law, foreign law, uniform law?). Private international law deals with a variety of topics, such as contracts, marriage and divorce, jurisdiction, and recognition of foreign judgments. As a result of globalization, the prominence of private international law has steadily increased over the last years. Lawyers dealing with international transactions must therefore possess at least a basic knowledge of this area of law. The course “Private International Law” focuses, inter alia, on the question of the applicable law in contract, tort and succession cases, whereas the issues of (adjudicatory) jurisdiction as well as recognition and enforcement of judgments are treated primarily in the course “Transnational Litigation”.
