THE REFORM OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ACTS IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE WEST BALKAN REGION.

In the year of 2003, academics from former Yugoslavia, as well as scholars from other parts of Europe met at the Faculty of Law in Niš to celebrate together the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Yugoslav Act Concerning the Resolution of Conflicts of Laws with Provisions of Other States in Certain Matters of 1982 and to discuss new trends in private international law. At that time, the Yugoslav Act was in force in most of the Yugoslav successor states. Only Slovenia had enacted a new codification which, however, to a large extent relied on the model of the 1982 PIL act. Twelve years (and ten regional private international law conferences) later, the picture has changed substantially. From the states of former Yugoslavia, only the one hosting the twelfth annual meeting in Zenica has not yet undertaken any steps for legislative reform. All others have either adopted new PIL acts or find themselves in a more or less advanced process of reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]