The interest of the family in private international law: a postmodern perspective.

Summary Postmodern techniques and values are transforming the issues from which private international law grasps the interest of the family. The subject now faces, on the one hand, the effects of communication techniques which, in a globalized environment, reorganize borders and identities, and on the other hand, the effects of the manipulation of living organisms which challenge family models. Faced with the omnipotence of family actors and the imperative of efficiency, it will be necessary to re-found the rule of conflict and to proceed to its refinement. In order to ensure its relevance and coherence in an environment shaped by postmodern values, we will try to resist the pitfall of specialization or the disorderly will of individuals in order to evolve with the pluralism and the regulation that it implies, while preserving the family's specificity.