International Private Law General Theory (Third Edition)

Author: Li Shuangyuan
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book embodies the author's years of research insights and theoretical perspectives, with distinct Chinese characteristics and personalized features. The third edition, based on the second edition, includes the following updates: First, it incorporates a significant amount of new domestic and international legislative and theoretical research findings, replaces outdated content and materials, and adds some new knowledge points, such as an introduction to the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, China's conflict of laws, and preliminary issues in international civil litigation. Second, it revises certain sections, such as the issue of international customs as a source of private international law, the legal application of intellectual property, and China's extraterritorial service system. Third, it makes appropriate adjustments to the structure of the second edition, including incorporating the content of Section 5 of Chapter 16 on parallel proceedings and the doctrine of forum non conveniens into Section 4 of the same chapter on international civil jurisdiction after. Through these revisions, the book remains up-to-date with the latest developments, places greater emphasis on theoretical elaboration and discussion, and further highlights its distinctive features of debate, inspiration, and academic foresight.