1.4 Origin and Development

The lineage: the statutory-theory's Italy (Bartolus's glossators — the statutes' territorial craft); the Dutch school (the comity — Huber's doctrine); the codification era (Savigny's system (the seat of legal relations) + Mancini's nationality (the personal-law principle)); the national codes (the German EGBGB, the Swiss-and-Italian laws — the conflict codifications); the modern era (the American revolution (the interest analysis — the most-significant-relationship's restatement); the EU's Rome Regulations (the codified choice-of-law); the Hague Conference's conventions; the current trends (the internet's challenges, the party autonomy's rise)).