The Seven Pillars of Wisdom in Private International Law——The German and the Swiss Experience with the Codification of Conflicts Law Rules

1 Introduction Whoever considers the codification of one’s private international law these days will most unlikely sit just down and compile a first draft referring to the country’s judge-made law and the accompanying scholarly writing.The desirablility,feasibility and the conceptual framework of a codification of a nation’s law of conflict of laws can hardly in any country be satisfactorily assessed without taking into account the experiences of other countries which have already marched forward on this path.