Intertemporal conflicts of private law statutes – A balancing act between innovation and legal certainty KU Leuven
Whenever an Act is changed, the question arises how to apply it intertemporally. Is the new Act applicable only to future situations? Or does it also apply to existing situations, or even to past situations? These questions (a.k.a. “intertemporal conflicts”) are governed by a branch of law called “transition law”. Sometimes the legislator solves these intertemporal conflicts via transition measures in the new Act (“explicit transition law”). ...