Research Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation, Research and Teaching (Handbooks of Research Methods in Law series)

This incisive Research Handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law (PIL) from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central themes in the field including international jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement, and scrupulously analyses core debates whilst addressing legislative and policy issues. Featuring contributions from carefully selected eminent scholars, the Research Handbook is structured in three thematic sections. The first section explores the divide between public and private approaches to PIL regulation and research, covering human rights perspectives and key private initiatives in regulation. Moving on to address classical and modern research methodologies in PIL, the second section examines comparative law, empirical, economic and technical approaches and considers the influence of technology. The final section concludes with a discussion of crucial societal and educational aspects of PIL. Research Methods in Private International Law will prove an essential reference for academics, researchers, and students of law with a particular interest in PIL, human rights law and research methods in law. Its practical focus on methodology will also be of benefit to policymakers and legal practitioners in the PIL field. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Preface 1. Private international law in a global world: a revival of methodologies and research methods PART I Public, private and regulatory approaches 2. Politics and private international law 3. Private international law and human rights 4. Conflict of methods in private international law: a legal theory perspective 5. Between flexibility and certainty: navigating between hard law and soft law in private international law 6. The private side of private international law: deregulation and private autonomy 7. Recognition – a methodology without a method? PART II Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches 8. Private international law will be comparative or it will be nothing 9. Empirical methods and private international law 10. Economic analysis of private international law 11. The methodological influence of European private international law on domestic legal systems: a downstream analysis 12. When private international law meets technology PART III Shaping the future through private international law methodology 13. Towards private international law for everyone 14. Feminist approaches to private international law 15. India’s private international law rules: persistence of colonial law in a post-colonial state: a TWAIL exploration 16. Private international law and teaching methodology: a Nigerian perspective 17. Private international law and teaching methodology in Mexico 18. Teaching private international law: a view from the Netherlands Index