Jayme, Erik Keywords: Codification | Private international law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Erik Jayme, Professor at the University of Munich, notes in the introduction to his course that the idea of codifying private international law does not emerge until the middle of the 19th century. This course is the doctrinal elaboration of the subject by eminent authors in the first half of the nineteenth century that has brought private international l…