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Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) No 4/2024: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

It is a multifaceted issue in which private international law plays an ambivalent role: on the one hand, as a tool to combat the exploitation of poverty, and on the other, as a means of legitimizing injustice. Yet, in some limited cases, components of the environment are granted a legal personality and some rights.

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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

Conflict of Laws

Most students avoid it because of the adverse effect they think it is sure to have on their cumulative grade points average and the seeming lack of practical benefit of the subject to their future law practices. They do not know any better. Nigerian lawyers with cross border practices will find these two chapters particularly helpful.

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The Fourth Private International Law Conference for Young Scholars in Vienna

Conflict of Laws

Based on sociological accounts of “post-migrant” identities , Grifo discussed that a person’s cultural identity can form “hybrid” solidarity to different legal systems and oppose the collective national identity of the country of immigration. The third group discussed the treatment of foreign institutions in international family law.

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Out Now: New open Access book on Children in Migration and International Family Law (Springer, 2024) by Stefan Arnold & Bettina Heiderhoff

Conflict of Laws

In the editors’ words, the book aims “ to shed light on the often overlooked legal difficulties at the interface between international family law and migration law ” (p. Bettina Heiderhoff shows that Germany combines several legal institutions to ensure the protection of unaccompanied minor refugees.