论国际私法上的最密切联系原则

Study on the doctrine the most significant relationship in the international private law

最密切联系原则被称为当代国际私法的最重要的法律适用原则,它在实现法律选择的弹性化和开放化,维护实质正义等方面具有巨大的优越性。本文首先介绍并分析了这一原则的发展历史,然后从立法和司法实践两个角度,分析了当代世界各国不同的做法,此后,文章对我国现行立法、《民法典》(草案)第九编以及《中国国际私法示范法》中对该原则的运用状况进行了分析,并在最后一部分中结合世界各国的实践和我国立法和实践的经验教训,对在我国未来的国际私法立法中适用最密切联系原则提出了几点意见。

The doctrine of the most significant relationship is considered to be the most important rule in the modern international private law. It has much superiority not only in choice of law with flexible and open ended but also in fulfilling justice essentially. The article was begin with the history of the doctrine, then the analysis of practice of different countries was made on law making and judicatory aspects. At last, the paper was ended with some proposes on the enforcement of this doctrine in Chinese legislation of international private law in the future after criticizing the relevant articles of the Model Law, Civil Law and comparing the practice in different countries.