On May 2, 2018, Professor Ferrari gave a talk on the occasion of a conference held in Oslo. The Norwegian Ministry of Justice has requested Professor Giuditta Cordero‐Moss, a professor at the University of Oslo, to submit a proposal for a statute on choice of law rules for contractual and non‐contractual obligations. The conference Professor Ferrari attended was organized to ensure that the proposal would reflect state‐of‐the‐art knowledge in the area of conflict of laws at the international level. As for Professor Ferrari, he addressed the relationship between conflict of laws rules and uniform substantive rules and propose a statutory provision aimed at ensuring the primacy of uniform substantive law.