Private International Law as Art

Abstract

Private international law stands apart in the legal system due to its special subject and method. Currently, the potential of private international law is being revealed in a new way due to the emergence of a new type of “space” — cyberspace, and many traditional institutions and problems of private international law are finding opportunities for a new interpretation or solution. At its core, private international law is the right of the avant-garde, in connection with which the idea arose of considering its individual institutions through the prism of art. And it was the work of the Belgian artist Rene Magritte that, according to the author, turned out to be most in tune with many of the sought-after issues of private international law. This article is an exclusively author’s attempt to combine legal matter with painting, aimed at illustration with the help of an artistic form of legal content.