Thirty Years of the Treaty of Asunción: Private International Law Between Mercosur Parties and Associates

Abstract

This article analyses, from the Argentine perspective, which formal multilateral conventional sources of private international law norms link, according to their respective fields -material, spatial, temporal and personal-, to the States parties of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela- currently suspended) and its associated States (Bolivia- in the process of accession-, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname), thirty years after the Treaty of Asuncion establishing Mercosur, according to the three parts of current private international law, this is, international jurisdiction, applicable law and international legal cooperation.