KDEC 9850 - Conflict of laws and crossborder litigation
Private international law sees to the allocation of jurisdiction among national courts, determines the applicable law and commands the transnational effects of foreign judgements, in matters involving private law relationships (contracts, torts, family...) that are connected to more than one State. Within the EU, these tools are now largely uniform, but otherwise vary from one legal culture to another. They also interact with public international law and human rights. Prominent examples of cases are transnational environmental disasters, instances of modern slavery in global value chains, or the transnational effects of foreign surrogacy agreements. While the discipline brings to bear a methodological technology in order to guide the courts in deciding such cases, it also be seen as a set of ideas relating to law's role in global governance, or again to the ways in which hospitality can be extended towards for