Conclusions

Abstract

The purpose of these lectures was to examine the nature, the function and the structure of Private International Law. The need tL. determine the application of law in space has existed throughout the ages, but the aims and the methods which determine its sphere of operation have never crystallised. The nature of rules of private law, the discretion of individual legal systems, subject only to the overriding control of customary International Law, the international character of rules of Private International Law, constitutional principles which can balance the choice of law in a Federal State, sociological and teleological considerations have been called in to provide criteria of general or international validity.