Konrad Duden – författare

What constitutes a “ family” in Europe? The answer to this question is constantly changing and increasingly varied. The standard of what a family looks like A– a married, opposite-sex couple that lives with their biological children under the same roof and where the husband is the sole or primary bread-winner – has been eroding for a long time. The opening contributions to this book discuss rapid and substantial changes in family structures, concepts and values that have emerged in Europe in recent years. Conceptions of marriage and partnership have been affected by this change: from the increasing recognition of same sex-marriages, the acceptance of private divorce and the changing treatment of early marriages, to the increasing legal protection of partnerships outside of marriage. Transformation has also occurred in the area of filiation: assisted reproduction – particularly surrogate motherhood – is creating families that could not have previously existed. In some places, there is even discussion regarding granting parentage to more than two persons. Queer families add an additional layer of complexity: this starts with the recognition of the gender identities of transgender or non-binary persons, and continues with the question of the parentage of these persons. Finally, changing views of gender roles and a greater recognition of children’ s rights make it necessary to reconsider the balance between the promotion of equality, self-reliance and autonomy of family members and the need to protect financially and physically vulnerable family members. This book’ s contributions display a fragmented situation across the European continent. In some areas the developments are marked by a clear divergence between Western and Eastern European jurisdictions. These differences between Eastern and Western European perceptions of family and gender identity have a tremendous symbolic and political importance and undermine efforts to harmonize (international) family law within Europe. Nevertheless, these differences should not be overstated, to avoid deepening the existing rifts even further. Instead, this book highlights ways of overcoming divergences through exploring conflict of laws, international civil procedure, human rights jurisprudence and even harmonized substantive family law.KONRAD DUDEN is a full professor of private law and private international law as well as the director of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law at the University of Leipzig. He holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Heidelberg. His doctoral dissertation addressed the treatment of surrogate motherhood by private international law and was awarded various prizes (inter alia the Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max Planck Society and the Gerhard-Kegel-Prize of the German Association of International Law). He wrote his postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg on the influence of digitization on German property law. DENISE WIEDEMANN is a senior research fellow and the head of the Centre of Expertise on Latin America at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She is also a lecturer at Bucerius Law School and at the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg, where she teaches, amongst other subjects, family and succession law. She completed her PhD thesis on cross-border enforcement of judgments in 2017. Her publications on family law include commentaries on the 1996 Hague Convention Child Protection and the EU regulations on property consequences of marriages and registered partnerships, as well as articles on child marriage and marriage by proxy.

On 7 December 2022, the European Commission published a Proposal for a Council Regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and on the creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (Parenthood Proposal).In this book, the Marburg Group— a group of German private international law scholars— undertakes the first extensive and in-depth assessment of the Parenthood Proposal. While the Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission and embraces the overall structure of the Parenthood Proposal, it suggests several fundamental changes.The Commission proposes common rules for the Member States in the domain of parenthood, addressing the classic issues of private international law: jurisdiction in parenthood matters, the applicable law to parenthood and the recognition of court decisions in matters of parenthood. Furthermore, the Commission recommends the introduction of a European Certificate of Parenthood, enabling European citizens to prove a parenthood position throughout the European Union, with uniform effects.

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Der Tagungsband enthält die Beiträge der zweiten Tagung des IPR-Nachwuchses in Würzburg, die im Frühjahr 2019 stattfand.Das heutige Kollisionsrecht ist einerseits stark durch traditionelle Ansätze und Methoden geprägt, sieht sich andererseits jedoch wie kaum ein anderes Rechtsgebiet mit den Veränderungen und Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts konfrontiert. Die Beiträge zeichnen verschiedene Facetten und Entwicklungslinien aus den unterschiedlichsten Gebieten des IPR nach und spannen den Bogen von den historischen Grundlagen und dem Allgemeinen Teil über aktuelle Entwicklungen im Gesellschafts-, Familien- und Erbrecht hin zum Kontext der Digitalisierung; auch internationalverfahrensrechtliche Fragen werden beleuchtet. Die Gesamtschau der Vielfalt der Verbindungen zwischen Altbewährtem und Neuentdecktem zeigt neue Synergieeffekte für die künftige Entwicklung des IPR.

Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die dritte IPR-Nachwuchstagung, die 2021 am Hamburger Max-Planck-Institut stattgefunden hat. Unter dem bewusst provokant formulierten Titel nimmt der Band die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung des Internationalen Privatrechts und dessen Potenzial zur Bewirkung entsprechenden Wandels in den Blick. Die Beiträge setzen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit den häufig gegenläufigen Erwartungen an ein Rechtsgebiet auseinander, das einerseits neutral sein soll, von dem sich andererseits aber auch viele die Verwirklichung politischer und gesellschaftlicher Ziele wünschen. Dabei befassen sich die Beiträge sowohl mit generellen Überlegungen zu der Bedeutung gesellschaftspolitischer Anliegen für das Internationale Privatrecht als auch mit der Analyse dieser Bedeutung anhand konkreter Einzelbeispiele.