Van Gerven, Walter Keywords: Europe | Private international law | Transfer of proceedings | European Union | Mots clefs: Europe | Droit international privé | Renvoi | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Professor Walter van Gerven starts from the observation that there exists on the same territory a multiplicity of levels of legal orders (for example, seven legal orders intervening at different levels in Belgium). M. van Gerven wonders how and on the basis of which criteria it is possible to formulate “conflict” or rather “referral” …

Lewald, Hans Keywords: Transfer of proceedings | Private international law | Mots clefs: Renvoi | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Hans Lewald envisages a condition in which not only a discrepancy exists between the domestic laws of two legal orders, i.e. between the rules of substantive law, but also between the conflict rules. Does a possibility of arriving at an identical solution despite the diversity of private international law? The author writes that the theory of renvoi has been claimed, and discusses t…