Mills Alex. The confluence of public and private international law: justice, pluralism and subsidiarity in the international constitutional ordering of private law

Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 420 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-51541-2 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-73130-0.This book is about the relationship – past, present and future – between public and private international law.1 In the study of international law, a
sharp distinction is usually drawn between public international law, concerned with the rights and obligations of states with respect to other states and individuals, and private international law, concerned with issues of jurisdiction, applicable law and the recognition and enforcement
of foreign judgments in international private law disputes before national courts. Private international law is viewed as national law, which
is and ought to be focused on resolving individual private disputes based on domestic conceptions of justice or fairness.