The Legal and Sociological Aspects of Private International Law

Abstract

Private international law as a phenomenon of the social and legal superstructure is marked by specific problems both in its ontological aspect and in its gnoseological aspect. In spite of this fact, however, when studying it, we cannot separate and isolate these two aspects from each other. The general prerequisite of the understanding of private international law from the ontological aspect is its existence as a phenomenon; of course, its knowledge is nothing less and nothing more than the knowledge of people who have acquainted themselves more or less adequately with this phenomenon. It is from this link between the ontological and gnoseological aspects of private international law that we must proceed without, of course, mixing or confusing the two.