¿Qué derecho internacional privado queremos para el siglo XXI?

Abstract

In Spain, Private International Law (PIL) has evolved considerably since the 19^th century. Thus, we have gone from a few simple legal rules (naive) to PIL consisting of a set of hyperspecialized rules, whose origin may be internal, conventional, or derived from the European Union. Many of these rules are incomprehensible to a standard legal mind. This has all led us to PIL for specialists, completely removed from reality and eccentric (freaky), aimed only at the knowledgeable and far removed from those who practise law, who often neither understand nor know how to apply it. After analyzing the evolution of Spanish PIL, this paper contains a number of proposals intended to make PIL understandable and coherent.