CONTENTS:1. Introduction. - 2. The relationship between international / supranational legislation and domestic codification in the field of private international law. - 3. How best to articulate this relationship between the international / supranational legal order and the national legal order in a new domes tic statute on private international law? - 4. How to manage the increasing effect of decisions of foreign authorities, and of legal situations created abroad, on the domestic legal system? - 5. Conclusion.