Yearbook of Private International Law Volume V

The Yearbook of Private International Law has entered its fifth year. Again we are privileged to offer our readers a series of important academic and documentary contributions. The three articles included in the doctrine section, all of which by "western" authors, focus respectively on punitive-damages conflicts in the United States the future revision of the Rome Convention on contractual obligations and its conversion into an EC regulations, and choice of court agreements in the draft text of the Hague Conference. The national reports this year provide insight into recent developments in private international law legislation in the Republic of Korea, Bulgaria and Slovenia. The overview on the activity of uniform law organizations includes this year, along with the usual report on the on-going work at the Hague Conference, a report on both recent achievements and future ambitions of the EU Institutions. The column 'forum' includes contributions on two among the most 'fashionable' conflict of laws subjects to date, that is non marital unions on the one side and the effects of the 'communitarization' of private international law on the external competence of the European Community, on the other. Finally, documentary materials from international organizations active in private international law include the text of the Hague Convention on securities held with an intermediary, the EC Regulation concerning matrimonial matters of parental responsibility, the proposal for a Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations, as well as the Institute of International Law's latest Resolution on forum non conveniens and anti-suit injunctions and its Declaration on multipary arbitration.