Protection of Weak Parties' Interests in Private International Law

Abstract

After the conflict law revolution, based on the critique and reflection on the old legal choice methods, Private International Law has shifted from the initial pur-suit of formal justice to a value orientation of substantive justice, thus giving rise to the principle of protecting the interests of weak parties. The weak in Pri-vate International Law specifically refer to vulnerable groups restricted in legal choice and dispute resolution, whose entitled rights are difficult to realize due to unequal status in contract negotiations, mainly manifested in foreign-related consumer contracts, labor contracts, and product quality tort cases. China's leg-islation on Private International Law has also been influenced by the concept of weak parties' protection, but it does not clearly demonstrate a result-oriented approach to protecting weak parties, with low operability. This paper aims to analyze China's current legislation, point out existing deficiencies, and propose reasonable improvement suggestions to promote the perfection and develop-ment of the principle and system of weak parties' protection in China, and effec-tively safeguard the rights and interests of weak parties.