Interest Analysis: No More than a ‘Protest Song’?

Abstract

Having close links with the mutinous tradition in choice of law thinking of the Amsterdam University Law School, Voskuil does not think highly of the traditional choice of law rules. In his address as doctor honoris causa of the University of Zagreb Voskuil submits that the choice of law rules constitute just a choice mechanism, devoid of any philosophical or ideological basis and that they form a defective tool in that they push international cases into a national legal environment and also that they lean heavily on corrective devices that tend to blur the judicatory process.