Autonomy of the will, public policy and international public order in European Family and succession law regulations

Abstract

Starting from the basis that we live in increasingly multicultural societies, this work asks whether the autonomy of the conflictual will in family and sucession law a way can be to guarantee fair responses that combine respect for cultural identity with the desire to apply the law of the host State, as a means to reduce the action of international public order. Although, this premise would be fulfilled, the action of the European public policy makes ethnocentrism still a very important characteristic of our conflict norms in these matters that inevitably leads to a certain legephorism.