PIL and Human Rights in Europe

Professor Veerle Van Den Eeckhout, who teaches private international law at the Universities of Antwerp and of Leiden, has just published “Private International Law and Fundamental Rights: Private International Law as an Instrument for the Promotion of Respect for Fundamental Rights?” on SSRN.  The paper analyses – in an exploratory way – the impact of Fundamental Rights on Private International Law, comprising both Human Rights and European Fundamental Freedoms.

The article is written in Dutch in the context of a research project, and will also be published in a collective book; it can be downloaded here.