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Van Loon, Hans --- "Remarks on the Needs and Methods for Governance in the Field of Private International Law – At the Global and Regional Levels" [2008] ELECD 194; in Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Muir Watt, Horatia (eds), "Making European Private Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008)

Book Title: Making European Private Law

Editor(s): Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Muir Watt, Horatia

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847201980

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Remarks on the Needs and Methods for Governance in the Field of Private International Law – At the Global and Regional Levels

Author(s): Van Loon, Hans

Number of pages: 12

Extract:

7. Remarks on the needs and methods for
governance in the field of private
international law ­ at the global and
regional levels
Hans van Loon

INTRODUCTION
Against the background of the comprehensive analysis in the Introduction of
our theme `The Making of European Private Law', the following remarks will
offer no more than a few lateral comments from a practitioner's point of view.
They will be based mainly on the author's experience with the intergovern-
mental law-making organisation, the Hague Conference on Private
International Law (`the Conference'), whose mission is the drawing up and
servicing of multilateral treaties in the field of private international law.1 Over
a period of more than a century, the Conference, while maintaining many of
its essential characteristics, has continuously adapted and transformed itself to
respond to changing and expanding needs. Notably, in the course of this
process, (1) it has over the past fifty years grown from an essentially European
organisation into a global one ­ an ongoing process that has recently acceler-
ated, and (2) has lately seen, among its core members, the development of a
form of europeanisation (communitarisation) of private international law. As a
result of these developments, a number of questions arise concerning the rela-
tionship between the making of private international law at the global and
regional levels.
These remarks will focus on the following three aspects of our theme:




1 For a short introduction to the Hague Conference, its origins, the significance
of its work and ...