Published: 2021-12-29

The unilateral method in private international law. Some observations on the basis of the judgment of the CJEU in case C-135/15 Greece v. Nikiforidis

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Abstract

The article confronts the unilateral and multilateral methods in private international law. The author first identifies the basic differences between the two. She then moves to describe the instruments and concepts resulting from the unilateral method: the theories of the Statutists in the period between 12th to 19th centuries, the solutions offered by the so called new American school, the method of recognition of private situations crystallized in a foreign legal system,  the rules governing the spatial scope of the EU provisions, including the regulations and the directives, and finally the paradigm of the overriding mandatory rules.

The second part of the paper provides a comment to the Nikiforidis case. The author makes a number of critical remarks with respect to the restrictive and rigid interpretation of Article 9(3) adopted by the CJEU. The argument is made that the more flexible and functional approach proposed by the Attorney General Maciej Szpunar in his Opinion should be preferred. Finally, the author makes her own proposition regarding the Nikiforidis case. She advocates a unilateral methodology that rejects the distinction between the overriding mandatory rules of the legis fori, legis causae and these of a third country.

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Zachariasiewicz, M.-A. (2021). The unilateral method in private international law. Some observations on the basis of the judgment of the CJEU in case C-135/15 Greece v. Nikiforidis. Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego (“Problems of Private International law”), 29, 125–149. https://doi.org/10.31261/PPPM.2021.29.05

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Vol. 29 (2021)
Published: 2022-04-20


ISSN: 1896-7604
eISSN: 2353-9852
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PPGOS

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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