Law

German procedural law restricts the parties' power to compel the other party to disclose information. In contrast, the EU legislator has created numerous new disclosure obligations, which the author analyzes comprehensively and describes systematically in this work.

Family transformation and new reproductive technologies give rise to alternative parent-child constellations and, in cross-border cases, to specific conflicts. Building on the existing rules of international parentage law, Joshua Kohler develops appropriate solutions to these challenges.

In contrast to other areas of conflict of laws, international property law in the European Union has not yet been harmonized. Based on a comparative analysis of the Member States' codifications and other selected legal texts, Nina Fischer develops a proposal for a European framework of international property law.

With her concept of 'Identity Jurisprudence', Vanessa Grifo develops a migration-sociologically informed analytical framework for international family law. She shows how the legislator and courts understand cultural identity and integration in their doctrinal reasoning, and how they thereby influence cultural integration and shape identities.