A Brief Introduction

Private International Law is one of the textbooks of the key curriculums for Higher Legal Education, edited according to the Basic Teaching Request ofKey Curriculums ofNational Higher Legal Discipline made by Ministry of Education, and it is supposed to meet the teaching demands of private international law in the 21st century.

In this book, the authors use the private international law system generally accepted by scholars at home and abroad.The authors utilize the newest massive achievement of domestic and international legislations, judicial practices and theoretical research, and elaborate the basic theory and basic system of private international law thoroughly and systematically.The book consists of 7 parts and 23 chapters.Part one is“General Survey”.Part Two is“The Basic Systems of the Conflict of Laws”. Part Three is“The Subject of Private International Law, Legal Act and Agency”. Part Four is“Property”.Part Five is“Obligations”.Part Six is“Marriage, Family and Succession”.Part Seven is“Settlement of International Civil Disputes”.

Using comparison method, with multiple-level approaches and multiple perspectives, the authors elaborate and analyze the above contents thoroughly, reflect the newest domestic and international development of private international law.The book also has new progresses and breakthroughs in theoretical innovation, system construction, lingual style improvement and annotation criterion.

This book can be used as a textbook by the undergraduates and graduates majoring in law, it also can be made reference by students majoring in other disciplines and social readers.