Introduction to Private International Law (YNOPm599)

Course topics: 1. History, concept, subject and system of private and procedural international law, foreign element. 2. Methods of solving private law relations with a foreign element, direct and conflict method, unification, sources of private and procedural international law and their mutual relationship. 3. Basic issues of international procedural law: jurisdiction and judicial cooperation, exclusion from jurisdiction, the problem of forum shopping. 4. Interim, urgent and precautionary measures vs. main proceedings. 5. Jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters for the main proceedings (Brussels Ia Regulation, Act on International Private and Procedural Law). 6. General issues of application of governing law, issues prior to the application of the conflict rule (qualification) and application of the conflict rule, determination of foreign law, protective mechanisms of private and procedural international law (public order, imperative norms, mandatory norms). 7. Status issues and the position of persons in private and procedural international law: jurisdiction, personal status and aliens\' law. 8. Obligations in civil and commercial matters in private international law, distinction between contractual and non-contractual obligations, conflict and direct regulation of obligations. 9. Contractual obligations in private international law. 10. Non-contractual obligations under private international law. 11. Rights in rem and inheritance status. 12. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in civil and commercial matters, cross-border effect of public deeds, simplified cross-border recognition and enforcement mechanisms.

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Supervisors and educators:
prof. PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
Mgr. Bc. Martin Bulla, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Prednášajúci, Kogarant, Zodpovedný za elearning, Cvičiaci, Skúšajúci
Ing. Jana Koprlová, PhD. - Kogarant, Schvaľujúci zápis
JUDr. Ing. Dominika Moravcová, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Zodpovedný za elearning, Kogarant, Skúšajúci, Prednášajúci, Cvičiaci
doc. JUDr. Kristián Csach, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Zodpovedný za elearning, Prednášajúci, Cvičiaci, Skúšajúci, Kogarant

Code: YNOPm599

Period: ZS

Credits: 4