"This publication grew out of a conference under the same title that was financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and held in March 2018 in the Harnack-House of the Max-Planck-Society (MPG) in Berlin, Germany."--Preface, page five.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jan von Hein, Eva-Maria Kieninger and Giesela Rühl -- The Relationship between EU Legislation and International Instruments in the Field of Private International Law / Pietro Franzina -- Regulations and Conventions : A Comment on the Sources of European Union Private International Law / Jürgen Basedow -- Interaction between EU Regulations and Member State Codification of Private International Law : From Patchwork to Network / Johan Meeusen -- A View from the Trenches on EU and Member State Private International Law / Jan von Hein -- The Application of European Private International Law and the Ascertainment of Foreign Law / Marta Requejo Isidro -- When Should EU Private International Law Require that Foreign Law be Applied? / Paul Beaumont -- The Application of European Private International Law by National Judges : Challenges and Shortcomings / Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska -- The Application of European Private International Law by National Judges : Making the Job Easier / Michael Hellner -- A Common Discourse in European Private International Law? : A View from the Court System / Xandra Kramer -- National Court Systems and Uniform Application of European Private International Law / Pedro A. de Miguel Asensio -- National Styles of Academic Discourse and their Impact on European Private International Law : A View from France / Sabine Corneloup -- National Styles of Academic Discourse and their Impact on European Private International Law : A Portuguese Perspective / Dário Moura Vicente -- Political Private International Law : How European are Overriding Mandatory Provisions and Public Policy Exceptions? / Marc-Philippe Weller and Alix Schulz -- Public Policy and Overriding Mandatory Rules as Mirrors of the EU System of Thought and Integration : On the 'Europeanness' of Exceptions and Oddities / Stéphanie Francq -- Private International Law in Legal Education in Europe and Selected Other Countries / Thomas Kadner Graziano .

Over the course of the last few decades, the European legislature has adopted a total of 18 Regulations in the area of private international law, including civil procedure. The resulting substantial legislative unification has been described as the first true "Europeanisation" of private international law and even as a kind of "European Choice of Law Revolution". However, it remains largely unclear whether the far-reaching unification of the "law on the books" has turned private international law into a truly European "law in action": To what extent is European private international law actually based on uniform European rules common to all Member States rather than on state treaties or instruments of enhanced cooperation" Is the manner in which academics and practitioners analyse and interpret European private international law really different from previously existing domestic approaches to private international law" Or, rather, is the actual application and interpretation of European private international law still influenced, or even dominated, by national legal traditions, leading to a re-fragmentation of a supposedly uniform body of law"