Enhancing critical thinking in private international law

Abstract

This article describes and evaluates the reforms that the authors (as course managers) introduced to enhance critical thinking in the compulsory course on private international law in the Master of Laws programme at Stockholm University. The reforms were made in response to a decision by the Stockholm University Law Faculty Board to develop the "Stockholm Model" in an effort to strengthen students' critical and scientific approach to law. The Stockholm Model aims to place law in a broader context so students can understand its relation to and impact on society. It also shifts the focus from an orthodox teaching of the doctrinal subject areas to facilitating the students' ability to apply legal and other social science methods to analyse and develop the law. The article evaluates the success of the measures and reflects on what more can be done to improve critical thinking.

Tendencies for the Development of Marriage Conflict Legal Regulation with the Participation of Foreigners and Persons without Citizenship in the Post-Soviet Space

“…The territorial approach that existed earlier during the Soviet period to regulate the material conditions of marriage was criticized by Panteleeva (1986) and Lundstedt and Sinander (2020) who expressed proposals on mitigating the territorial principle in marriage issues and on the transition to material and legal condition regulation by the personal law of the couple for foreigners who marry in the USSR (Matveev, 1972;Lundstedt and Sinander, 2020;Panteleeva, 1986).…”