IN THE LABYRINTS OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the Department of International Law of the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University (the department and the faculty were founded in 1991). The development of private international law as a science and the organization of the educational process through the efforts of specialists from the Department of International Law of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv are analyzed in this article. This publication states the continuity that is preserved in the science of private international law in Ukraine. Works of many scientists of Soviet and modern Ukraine (V. I. Kisil, V. M. Koretsky, G. K. Matveev, Yu. G. Matveev, V. P. Pastukhov, A. A. Pidoprigora, O. A. Pidoprigora) are a reference point for the development of private international law in Ukraine in the 21st century. Private international law of each state has its own history of development. Private international law of Ukraine has its own history as well. The system of norms of private international law in Ukraine is based on the norms of the Romano-Germanic system of law. The norms of private international law in Soviet Ukraine were very laconic. The norms of modern private international law of Ukraine are increasingly adopting the features of European law. The attention of the author of the article is drawn to the topical problems of private international law of Ukraine at the present stage of development of society. They need a solution. Among the issues that should be resolved is the question of the independence (or non-independence) of private international law as a branch of law. The problem of more and more frequent subordination of legal relations arising with the participation of citizens of Ukraine to the foreign legal system, instead of applying conflict and substantive legal norms of Ukraine to such legal relations, also requires a solution. The issues arising in connection with the pandemic associated with the spread of infection caused by COVID‑19 need to be addressed as well. The application of the norms of private international law in IT technologies should attract the attention of Ukrainian scientists. This problem is especially relevant when organizing distance learning in educational institutions in a pandemic.