Over the last decades, private international law has become the target
of intense codification efforts. Inspired by the stimulating initiatives
taken by some European countries, by the Brussels Convention and the
Rome Convention, numerous countries in other regions of the world
started to enact comprehensive legislation in the field. Among them are
Taiwan and mainland China. Both adopted statutes on private
international law in 2010. In light of the rising significance of the
mutual economic and societal relations between the jurisdictions
involved and of the legal innovations laid down in the new instruments,
the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
convened scholars to present the conflict rules adopted in Europe, in
mainland China and in Taiwan across a whole range of private law
subjects. This book collects the papers of the conference and presents
them to the public, together with English translations of the acts of
Taiwan and mainland China.