Volume III: Private International Law | Chapter 11 (1994): Public Policy

Completed October 1991, with a few more recent references.

Paul Lagarde

5. If public policy is a ground for rejecting foreign law it is clear that the judge must examine the foreign law before he rejects it. It is even a practical as well as a theoretical necessity. It is a practical necessity if one wishes to limit the realm of the exception of public policy, w…