The process of codifying the provisions of private international law has become the major factor triggering the reinterpretation and development of its doctrine in modern Ukraine. When the codification project was prepared in the mid-1990s, it turned out that all the elements of the private international law theory, which was Soviet in essence, had to be thoroughly “sorted out”, like parts in a car engine. The codification efforts highlighted the need for changes, primarily of the approaches to the conflict-oflaws doctrine. Later, this had an effect on the shaping of new scientific ideas about other aspects of the paradigm of private international law.

The purpose of the article is to elaborate on the content of re-conceptualization of the private international law doctrine in Ukraine at the turn of the century as a result of successful codification of conflict of laws (conflict of laws and jurisdictions).

The author establishes that the domestic conflict of laws doctrine has been updated in the following areas: (i) switching of conflict of laws to the private-law basis; (ii) making of the conflict-of-laws provisions more flexible and, at the same time, maintaining theirdistinctness; (iii) “materialization” of the choi ce of law; (iv) adoption of the unilateral approach for dealing with a conflict-of-laws issue.

The author concludes that the Ukrainian “conflict-of-laws” codification at the turn of the century facilitated the transition of the domestic private international law doctrine to the theoretical platform of Western European countries and international organizations. By means of the principle, connecting factor and other facets of the closest connection, Ukrainian conflict of laws was actually rewritten anew. Currently it is characterized by high dispositivity, regulativity and flexibility. Having assimilated the modern multi-lateral method of the choice of law, which has been established to a great extent due to the efforts of F. Savigny, the domestic doctrine of private international law has not abandoned the elements of materialization of conflict of laws (its focus on the material result of a decision made in a particular case – material justice) and a unilateral approach to dealing with a conflict-of-laws issue. Today, the new domestic doctrine also offers the content of the main lines of recodification (updating) of private international law. The author believes that an important task of the update is to bring the codification back to the structure of the Civil Code of Ukraine in the form of the closing book on private international law.

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