Introduction to the EU private international law: Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters

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Private international law: concept, function, methods of regulation; the relevance of the PIL for the implementation of fundamental freedoms and the single market; competences of international organizations - an outline of the issue; historical outline and current state of development of EU competences; competences in the field of the PIL, evolution of treaty provisions; EU relevant legislation; use of the so-called enhanced cooperation; EU international agreements in the field of private international law, participation in the Hague Conference on Private International Law; the contribution of the case law of the Court of Justice to the development of the PIL; Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters: creation and functioning of the European Judicial Network

1) Private international law: narrow and broad meaning; relations with the field of international civil proceedings: jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

2) Choice-of-law and jurisdictional rules - structure, functions: scope, connecting factors

3) Legal commerce and implementation of Community freedoms: Area of ​​Freedom, Security and Justice

4) Formation of the concept of European private international law: from the 1968 Brussels Convention to the Lisbon Treaty; the role of community / EU case law

5) Competences of the European Union institutions to adopt measures in the field of private international law: art. 81 TFEU

6) Enhanced cooperation as a mechanism used within EU legislation in the field of PPM

7) EU competence to conclude - instead of or in addition to Member States - international agreements in the field of the PIL; analysis of the ECJ opinion on the 2nd Lugano Convention (1/03)

8) Participation of the European Union in the Hague Conference on Private International Law

9) Institutional components of Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters and their relevance to national civil and commercial court systems

10) Theoretical and practical aspects of the operation of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters: implementation of Council Decision 2001/470 / EC

• N.A. Baarsma, The Europeanisation of International Family Law: The EU Legislature’s Competence, [w:] idem, The Europeanisation of International Family Law, Springer 2011, s. 79-143

• A. Fillers, Implications of Article 81(1) TFEU’s recognition clause for EU conflict of laws rules, “Journal of Private International Law” 2018, 14:3, s. 476, DOI: 10.1080/17441048.2018.1526068

• G.-R. De Groot, J.-J. Kuipers, The New Provisions on Private International Law in the Treaty of Lisbon, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 2007, 15:1, s. 109, DOI: 10.1177/1023263X0701500111

• X.E. Kramer, Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters, [w:], P.J. Kuijper, F. Amtenbrink, D. Curtin, B. De Witte, A. McDonnell, S. Van den Bogaert (red.), The Law of the European Union, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International 2018, s. 721

• P. Mostowik, Kwestia przystąpienia przez Polskę do rozporządzenia unijnego Rzym III, „Europejski Przegląd Sądowy” 2016, z. 10, s. 36

• M. Niedźwiedź, P. Mostowik, Wspólnota Europejska jako strona umów międzynarodowych w dziedzinie prawa prywatnego międzynarodowego. Uwagi na tle opinii Trybunału Sprawiedliwości WE w sprawie 1/03, „Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego” 2009, VII: 1, s. 71

• M. Pilich, Europeizacja prawa prywatnego międzynarodowego: cel, ograniczenia, wyzwania, „Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego” 2013, t. 12, s. 53

• M. Pilich, Brexit and EU private international law: May the UK stay in?, “Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law” 2017, 24:3, s. 382, DOI: 10.1177/1023263X17722327

• P. Stone, Private International Law in the European Union, 4th ed., Cheltenham: Elgar European Law 2018

(1) Knowledge - the student knows and understands:

(a) the structure of EU private international law and its relation to national law;

(b) the principles governing the interpretation and application of EU PIL.

(2) Skills - the student is able to:

a) determine the manner of creating and interpreting EU private international law.

Active participation in the seminar; reading recommended articles, confirmed by filling in a short questionnaire or speaking with the course instructor