scholarly journals Cross-Border Oil and Gas Transactions in Private International Law: Concept, Types, and Features of Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
D. V. Andriyanov
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Legal Fact ◽  
Contractual Structures

The paper proposes to refer to cross-border oil and gas transactions as contracts mediating relations in the field of international circulation of hydrocarbons. These include all transactions complicated by a foreign element (foreign entity, object, legal fact) and concluded regarding the exploration, development, processing, transfer, transportation of oil and gas as a commodity in the course of entrepreneurial and investment activities. Based on the Russian and foreign doctrine of private international law, the author examines the most common transactions in the industry, analyzes their features, and also proposes a basic classification of contractual structures. In the absence of a wide range of international treaties governing cross-border oil and gas transactions, the author concludes that the conflict of laws method of determining the applicable law is dominant. The importance of non-state regulators lex petrolea is noted, capable of complementing, but not replacing, national legal regulation.

scholarly journals Application of Smart Contracts and Blockchain Platforms in Cross-Border Oil and Gas Transactions: Aggravation of Conflict-of-Laws Problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
D. V. Andriyanov
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Law

Modern international hydrocarbons turnover is becoming more autonomous and decentralized. This process is facilitated not only by the introduction into contractual practice of such network technologies as smart contracts and blockchain platforms, but also by the wide dissemination of sources of non-governmental regulation (lex petrolea). In the context of the network paradigm of private international law, the classic problem of conflict of laws is exacerbated. The author considers the conflict-of-laws aspects of the use of smart contracts based on blockchain technology in cross-border oil and gas transactions, taking into account the fact that the use of computer algorithms does not create a new contract, but is only a special form of transaction. Such “automated” transactions in the oil and gas sector involving multiple jurisdictions create uncertainty in their legal regime. In the absence of a comprehensive substantive legal regulation, and in connection with the phenomenon of lex petrolea, the conflict-of-laws method of regulation predominates. The author shares his reasoning concerning the possibility of extending the application of Regulation No. 593/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union “On the Law to be Applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)” to smart contracts. The author concludes that existing regulation is quite applicable to smart contracts in cross-border oil and gas transactions. Another question is whether the law, which is applicable by virtue of a conflict-of-laws rule, provides for an appropriate substantive basis. To date, special legislation on smart contracts has been passed in only several American states. It is predicted that in the future, private international law will not only determine the law applicable to smart contracts, but will also be a guide to disseminating the positive experience of legal regulation of smart contracts in different countries.

Diversity and Integration in Private International Law

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
International Law ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Substantive Law

This book opens a cross-regional dialogue and shifts the Eurocentric discussion on diversity and integration to a more inclusive engagement with South America in private international law issues. It promotes a contemporary vision of private international law as a discipline enabling legal interconnectivity, with the potential to transcend its disciplinary boundaries to further promote the reality of cross-border integration, with its focus on the ever-increasing cross-border mobility of individuals. Private international law embraces legal diversity and pluralism. Different legal traditions continue to meet, interact and integrate in different forms, at the national, regional and international levels. Different systems of substantive law couple with divergent systems of private international law (designed to accommodate the former in cross-border situations). This complex legal landscape impacts individuals and families in cross-border scenarios, and international commerce broadly conceived. Private international law methodologies and techniques offer means for the coordination of this constellation of legal orders and value systems in cross-border situations. Bringing together world-renowned academics and experienced private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions in Europe and South America, this edited collection focuses on the connective capabilities of private international law in bridging and balancing legal diversity as a corollary for the development of integration. The book provides in-depth analysis of the role of private international law in dealing with legal diversity across a diverse range of topics and jurisdictions.

COLLODIZING LINKS IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Н.Д. Эриашвили ◽  
Г.М. Сарбаев ◽  
В.И. Федулов
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Russian Federation

В представленной статье рассмотрены проблемы коллодирующих привязок в международном частном праве и особенности их правовой регламентации в законодательстве Российской Федерации. Автором проанализированы особенности нормативного закрепления данного типа привязок в системе международных договоров, а также механизм имплементации этих норм в национальном законодательстве различных государств. На основе сложившейся практики применения коллодирующих привязок национальными органами государственной власти обоснована необходимость учета публичных интересов государства в данных правоотношениях. The present article examines the problems of collodizing links in private international law and the peculiarities of their legal regulation in the legislation of the Russian Federation. The author analyzed the peculiarities of this type of binding in the system of international treaties, as well as the mechanism for implementing these norms in the national legislation of various states. On the basis of the established practice of applying collodial links by national authorities, the need to take into account the public interests of the State in these legal relations is justified.

scholarly journals Defamation on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Sandra Sakolciová
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
International Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Cross Border

There is no doubt that social media have become a very important part of many people’s everyday life. The consequences of their usage is an increased engagement in defamation, most likely due to the aspect of anonymity present in the online environment. Such cross-border (or more precisely border-less) defamation raises difficult challenges in terms of jurisdiction and applicable law. These challenges, which will be analysed in more detail in the article, remain unresolved up until today. Moreover, negative effects occur not only within private international law itself, but status quo significantly influences the exercise of basic human rights, too. Besides analysing the existing EU legal framework and applicable case-law, the article also looks into the possible alternatives.

Protection of the Individual in Recent Private International Law Codification in Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Sebastián Paredes
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This chapter presents an overview of the recent developments in Latin American private international law acts and civil codes for cross-border cases. International jurisdiction, applicable law and international judicial co-operation in recent private international law rules contained in national sources are the focus of analysis with special attention to solutions given by traditional approaches and theories but also by modern ones like the possibility to use non-State law for access to justice or for international commercial contracts. Other questions addressed in this chapter are: Is the protection of individuals improved in these new laws? How Latin Americans seek to deal with the decisive upsurge of human rights principles in post-modern private international law and cross border relationships and to fulfil access to justice?

scholarly journals European integration processes аnd private international law: certain aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 357-361
Author(s):  
Ernest Gramatskiy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
European Integration ◽  
National Court ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
The Subject

Certain aspects, the meaning and relationship between adaptation of the private legislation of Ukraine to the requirements of theEuropean Community and private international law are analyzed in the article. The above mentioned phenomena are explored in thelight of the active integration of Ukraine into European and world space, which at the same time explains the stage of fundamentalchanges in the national system of private law.Special attention is paid to the provisions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union dated June 27,2014, which became the basis for deepening the processes of democratization and liberalization in all spheres of life, including thesphere of regulation of private law relations complicated by a foreign element – the legal relations that make up the subject matter ofinternational private law.The concept, features and legal aim of adaptation in law in the context of European integration changes were the subject todetailed analysis. Various approaches of scientists in terms of characterization of this concept are analyzed. It is indicated that the adaptationof the national legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union is a long and multi-stage process, the plan of whichis enshrined at the level of international treaties, including the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union of June27, 2014. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the provisions of the Association Agreement, which are directly devoted to internationalprivate law and legal relations which make up its subject matter.Special attention is paid to the issue of intellectual property law and its regulation under current legislation of Ukraine and AssociationAgreement between Ukraine and the European Union. Certain aspects referring trademark regulation are analyzed. Judicial practiceof the national court of Ukraine has been taken into account as well.It is crucial to stress that European integration processes have their direct impact on private international law system and its me -cha nism of legal regulation.

scholarly journals Contract for the international sale of goods: Principle of autonomy of the will of parties within documents of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 972-992
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
External Trade ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Law ◽  
International Sale Of Goods ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Autonomy Of Will

The article is devoted to the analysis of legal regulation dealing with choice-of-law agreements by parties to international sale of goods contracts, namely in two documents of the Hague Conference on Private International Law: the Convention of 1955 on the Law Applicable to International Sales of Goods (in force) and the Convention of 1986 on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (not yet in force). The Convention of 1955 sets a strict standard of autonomy of will (choice of a country’s domestic law; based only on the terms of the contract). Having a small number of participants and characterized by inconsistent law enforcement practice, this convention, nevertheless, is a valid legal instrument which Russian actors in the field of external trade should take into account when cooperating with nationals of member states. The Convention of 1986 establishes a substantively more liberal autonomy of will standard (change of the applicable law; demonstrated by the terms of the contract and the conduct of the parties in their entirety). However, many participants in the drafting procedure led to a wide range of views in regard to parties’ autonomy (including diametrically opposite ones). This resulted in a compromise nature of the solutions (and even the drafters’ direct refusal to address parties’ choice sensitive issues: choice of lex mercatoria, depecage) and, likely, an insufficient adoption for the Convention to enter into force. The Conventions’ basic principles (1955 — irrespective of having a few number of participants; 1986 — irrespective of not entering into force) have the potential for practical application in international commercial arbitration. In the case of parties’ autonomy, such an application would be limited to its recognition as far as the standard of the first is strict and somewhat outdated, whereas the standard of the second has been accepted in the framework of discord between states and avoids addressing sensitive issues in its implementation.

scholarly journals European integration processes аnd private international law: certain aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 357-361
Author(s):  
Ernest Gramatskiy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
European Integration ◽  
National Court ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
The Subject

Certain aspects, the meaning and relationship between adaptation of the private legislation of Ukraine to the requirements of theEuropean Community and private international law are analyzed in the article. The above mentioned phenomena are explored in thelight of the active integration of Ukraine into European and world space, which at the same time explains the stage of fundamentalchanges in the national system of private law.Special attention is paid to the provisions of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union dated June 27,2014, which became the basis for deepening the processes of democratization and liberalization in all spheres of life, including thesphere of regulation of private law relations complicated by a foreign element – the legal relations that make up the subject matter ofinternational private law.The concept, features and legal aim of adaptation in law in the context of European integration changes were the subject todetailed analysis. Various approaches of scientists in terms of characterization of this concept are analyzed. It is indicated that the adaptationof the national legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union is a long and multi-stage process, the plan of whichis enshrined at the level of international treaties, including the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union of June27, 2014. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the provisions of the Association Agreement, which are directly devoted to internationalprivate law and legal relations which make up its subject matter.Special attention is paid to the issue of intellectual property law and its regulation under current legislation of Ukraine and AssociationAgreement between Ukraine and the European Union. Certain aspects referring trademark regulation are analyzed. Judicial practiceof the national court of Ukraine has been taken into account as well.It is crucial to stress that European integration processes have their direct impact on private international law system and its me -cha nism of legal regulation.

Report on the Kyoto Guidelines of the ILA Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Sutterer
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Validity Claims

Abstract In 2010 the International Law Association (ILA) formed a committee to develop a new set of rules on intellectual property and private international law. In 2020 the committee presented its work at the 79th Kyoto Conference of the ILA. The ‘Kyoto Guidelines’ cover all areas of IP and all aspects of private international law. This report presents the Kyoto Guidelines and particularly looks at four questions of private international law: initial ownership; jurisdiction and applicable law in cases of multi-state infringements; validity claims of registered rights which arise incidentally; and cross-border collective copyright management.

scholarly journals SYNCHRONIZATION OF APPLICABLE LAW WITH FORUM IN SUCCESSION AND MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY MATTERS IN THE EU AND UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Dikovska
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
International Jurisdiction ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criminal Matters ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of this paper is to determine the ways of synchronization of applicable law with forum in succession and matrimonial property matters under the EU Succession Regulation and the EU Matrimonial Property Regulation and the rules which may determine international jurisdiction and applicable law in Ukraine as well as answer the question on whether the rules of the Law of Ukraine on Private International Law which ensure synchronization of applicable law with forum in succession and matrimonial property matters match the needs of legal regulation of private relationships. The application of comparative, dialectical and formal-logical methods allowed concluding that synchronization of the applicable law with forum is provided by using of the same criteria for the determination of international jurisdiction and applicable law. The rules which ensure synchronization can: 1) necessarily lead to the application of the court's own law in some private legal matters; 2) be an alternative to the other methods of determination of the applicable law and international jurisdiction which is applied if the parties to the respective relationship conclude the choiceof-law and choice-of-court agreements linking to the law and the court of the same state. Synchronization of the law with the forum in matrimonial property matters is possible under of the Law of Ukraine 'On Private International Law' if the spouses have concluded the choice-of-law and choice-of-court agreements and in some other cases. It has been proved that the rules of the Law of Ukraine 'On Private International Law' which apply dualistic approach for determination of the law governing succession relationships does not allow to achieve synchronization of the applicable law with the forum in succession matters in all cases. It has been demonstrated that the presence of immovable property in the estate located abroad leads to the application of a foreign law to the succession of such property, even if a deceased, being a citizen of Ukraine, has chosen in his will the law of Ukraine as the law applicable to the succession. It has been concluded that the Law of Ukraine 'On Private International Law' should be amended in such a way that the choice of the law applicable to the succession made by a deceased in the will should cover the succession of movable and immovable property regardless of its location. Keywords: synchronization of law with the forum; law applicable to succession; international jurisdiction in succession matters; international jurisdiction in family matters; Succession Regulation; Matrimonial Property Regulation; Agreement between Ukraine and the Republic of Poland on legal assistance and legal relations in civil and criminal matters; Law of Ukraine 'On Private International Law'.

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