Neutralität im Internationalen Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht

Neutrality as an ideal of private international law (PIL) is being criticized. In times of global challenges and diverging social values, it seems like an anomaly. However, neutrality is already relative from the outset. What does it refer to? Who exercises it? How far does it extend? Moreover, the debate in PIL only covers half of the question of neutrality. At a preceding level, international civil procedure law determines to what extent conflict of laws, which claims neutrality for itself, is applied at all. Linda Meister approaches these complex problems by establishing categories of neutrality. These categories are compared with historical and current developments and are assessed from a legal-theoretical perspective. This creates the necessary basis for a well-founded balancing of neutrality against other principles of PIL and international civil procedure.