The lex situs in the law of movables: a swiss cheese / Jurgen Basedow -- Distance torts: the mines de potasse decision forty years on / Carrascosa González Javier -- Foreign same-sex marriages before Commonwealth African Courts / Richard Frimpong Oppong and Solomon Amoateng -- Escape clauses and legal certainty in private international law / Monika Pauknerová -- Protected parties in European and American Conflict of Laws: a comparative analysis of individual employment contracts / Jutta Gangsted and Geert Van Calster -- Jurisdiction in the fourth restatement of foreign relations law / William S. Dodge -- Recent developments in U.S. law on foreign sovereign immunity / David P. Stewart -- RJR Nabisco v. European Community and the reach of U.S. law / Aaron D. Simowitz -- Comity: the American Development of a Transnational Concept / Thomas Schultz and Niccolò Ridi -- The speech act and the enforcement of foreign libel judgments in the United States / John F. Coyle -- Environmental damages caused by transnational groups: access to justice / Laura García Álvarez -- Cross-Border Environmental Damage in Conflict of Laws / Aurélie Planas -- Recognition or non-recognition of foreign civil marriages in Israel / Yitshak Cohen -- An overview of Vietnamese private international law / Ho Huong Pham and Ngoc Bich Hoang -- Matters of Succession under Turkish Private International Law / Ceyda Süral -- International Lis Pendens as a Contemporary Problem of Turkish International Civil Procedure / Gülüm Bayraktaroğlu Özçelik -- The Mauritian Supreme Court Reliance on French and British Laws to Resolve Private International Law Disputes / Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi -- The EU forum non conveniens rule in child care proceedings cases involving public bodies / Gilles Cuniberti and Céline Camara -- Surrogacy abroad, recognition (or non-recognition?) in Switzerland: a painful dilemma / Elodie Spahni -- The Law Applicable to Intermediated Securities; Beyond PRIMA and The Hague Securities Convention / Alkaios-Panagiotis Sivitanidis -- Third party and contract in the conflict of laws / Sarah Laval -- The role of independent administrative authorities in global governance / Réka Ágnes Papp -- The CMR 1956 convention: some specific issues from a private international law perspective / Unai Belintxon Martín.

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