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Marriage is a legal act of great legal importance due to the numerous and relevant effects it produces. Marriage is subject to a rigorous legal form. Sometimes, there is also the obligation or duty to register the wedlock in a Civil Registry. This work deals with the requirements of access of a marriage to the Spanish Civil Registry in cases with foreign elements. The method, followed by the Spanish legislator to evaluate the validity of marriages celebrated before foreign authorities, is also examined.

International successions have often raised controversies for Private International Law. This paper deals with the general ground of jurisdiction of the deceased’s last habitual residence. In this field, the flexible, fluid and changing concept of the last “habitual residence” of the deceased needs an appropriate interpretation both for academics and for the practitioners of Private International Law. However, this essay holds that the liquidity of the concept “habitual residence” of the deceased may be an advantage to grant international jurisdiction on the courts which are best placed to rule on the merits of the case. Moreover, this paper sustains that a careful and holistic interpretation of the text of the Regulation and a proper analysis of the function of this ground of international jurisdiction leads to a surprising conclusion, i.e., the concept of the “habitual residence” is not as complex and difficult to specify as, at first glance, it might appear.

El convenio relativo a la protección del niño y a la cooperación en materia de adopción internacional, hecho en La Haya el 29 mayo 1993, presenta la curiosa incidencia de no precisar la ley aplicable a ciertos aspectos necesarios para acreditar la adecuación psicosocial de los adoptantes y del adoptando. En este trabajo, se propone una interpretación fáctica que permite solventar dicho problema: las autoridades que aplican el convenio citado no deben aplicar ninguna Ley estatal concreta a los aspectos reseñados, sino que deben limitarse a acreditar la adecuación psicosocial de los adoptantes y del adoptando con arreglo a criterios fácticos, sin que sea necesario aplicar una ley estatal determinada.Publicación en línea: 01 octubre 2012

The change of the International Law social scene, the correlative and spectacular development of the Private International Law (which has became one of the most dynamic areas of the Spanish Legal Order, because of the EU Law boost) and the new procedural treatment of the Foreign Law given by the LEC 1/2000 have made the implementation of the Foreign Law by Spanish Courts a major actuality debate. The present article deals with the general problems of the implementation of a Foreign Law (and its procedural treatment) by Spanish Courts from the point of view of the proof of the Foreign Law before those Courts.

The last judgments of the Spanish Courts have given a relevant role to the so called renvoi. As an instrument of Justice in the world of Conflicts of Laws, renvoi can be used as legal device to improve localization of «international» successions. This essay shows how the three most remarkable decisions of the Spanish Supreme Court concerning renvoi in the field of succession can be listened like three different movements played by one single orchestra. Renvoi in favor of the Spanish Substantive Law may be accepted when the deceased’s last domicile was in Spain and all the inmovables involved in the succession are situated in Spain. In any case, renvoi can not provoke the legal splitting of the succession, because under Spanish Law, succession must be governed by one single Law only.

The last judgments of the European court of Justice have cleared that individuals have the right to establish a company under the Law of the Member State they freely choose. The other Member States must recognize the company as validly created regardless the Member State where the company runs its business. The Conflict-Of-Laws Rules of the Member States can not modify this rule. The UE aims to elaborate a Regulation concerning the Law applicable to companies: the law governing companies should be the Law of the State where the company has been incorporated.

Las conocidas como "sociedades fantasma" son una realidad en el escenario de la economía mundial del siglo XXI. Se trata de entes jurídicos constituidos en ciertos Estados, en los que poseen su sede social, pero en los que no realizan actividad económica o societaria alguna. El presente estudio analiza el régimen jurídico de estas sociedades fantasma en Derecho internacional privado europeo y español. Se aborda la cuestión de la determinación de la Ley reguladora de las sociedades fantasma, la reacción legal contra las pseudo-foreign corporations, la libertad de establecimiento de sociedades fantasma en la UE y la responsabilidad patrimonial de estas sociedades y de sus administradores, en especial, cuando se emplean testaferros. Por último, se presta una especial atención a régimen jurídico de la insolvencia internacional de la sociedad fantasma, lo que comporta el análisis del "centro de intereses principales" de la sociedad fantasma como deudor insolvente, así como del traslado internacional de la sede social de la sociedad fantasma