IECL Lunchtime Seminar with Philipp Kronier – Vertical Minimum Nexus in Private International Law
Philipp Kronier – Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The IECL Lunchtime Seminar Series offers our Academic Visitors an opportunity to share their research, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues on both substantive and methodological aspects of their work.
Each seminar usually lasts 30–45 minutes, with 20–30 minutes for the presentation followed by 10–15 minutes for Q&A. A light sandwich lunch will be provided.
Philipp Kronier
Vertical Minimum Nexus in Private International Law
Abstract: The function of Private International Law is commonly understood as the allocation of a controversy, which contains a foreign element, to a legal order. What remains invisible in this notion, however, is the individual. Speaking about allocating a controversy is an elliptical way of speaking about subjecting particular individuals to legal order. Law obligates and entitles individuals, not controversies. This raises the question: Whether and what kind of nexus between the parties and the legal standards by which their conduct is to be judged should be required?