Modern Trends in the Development of Private International Law and its Place in the Legal System

The paper analyzes the current trends in the development of private international law, its relationship with international public law. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the public and the private in the regulation of cross-border private law relations, the concept of a polysystemic complex. The special role of the international civil process in the system of modern private international law is noted. Being implemented by law enforcement agencies, also in the context of the application of uniform conflict-of-law rules, the conflict-oflaws method of private international law vests with the public area due to its implementation. It is difficult to call the conflict-of-laws regulation a trend in private international law. The author highlights the international (crossborder) nature of private international law. Modern private international law is characterized by the presence of a symbiosis of traditional methods of state substantive and conflict-of-laws legal regulation and non-state regulation emanating from the subjects of private law relations, formed with due regard to the use of modern information technologies and often implemented in the digital environment, including with the use of non-state alternative methods of dispute resolution modernizing their forms with the development of technologies (the ODR, blockchain arbitration, the UDRP).
The paper highlights the formation of “cross-border private law” that is private in its own nature and in the context of the formation procedure which means that it comes from the subjects of private law. The author highlights such trends in the development of private international law in modern conditions as harmonization, primarily of electronic methods, of mechanisms for the implementation of private law relations; profiling of private international law within the framework of the activities of international organizations and cross-border self-regulatory organizations; orientation towards the uniform formation of private international law in the world and the expansion of its regulatory elements

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