Dutch Private International Law – Overview 1998-August 2002

This article provides an overview of the most important developments in Dutch private international law during the period January 1998-August 2002. The stormy codification of Dutch pri-vate international law in separate acts during the 1990’s was in a slower pace continued in the year 2000 and is today almost completed. A complication is the ongoing international codification. The on-going activities of the European legislator, add a third layer to the traditional ‘convention - national law’ scheme, namely those of the regulations. The paper concludes that there will be three important tasks f... Mehr ...