E. Herzog, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Constitutional law | Common law | Civil law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit constitutionnel | Pays de Common law | Droit civil | ABSTRACT The point of this class is to understand the manner in which constitutional rules impact the choice of law depending on the countries. This study starts with a casuistic understanding of the position of United States, followed by Canada and Australia, as they are federal countries under common la…

Hay, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Europe | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit international privé | Europe | ABSTRACT Peter Hay, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, emphasizes in the introduction to his course that a contradiction between the need for flexibility (to avoid an unfair decision) and the need for legal certainty cannot be resolved. It is the natural consequence of the difference between the development…

Brilmayer, Lea Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT Lea Brilmayer, Professor at New York University, devotes this course to the American choice of law theory, and more particularly to the role of substantive policies with regard to the formation and application of choice of law rules. Professor Brilmayer is particularly interested in the system of legal realism. The general introduction to her course is dedicated to the problem of …

Enrique Alvarez, José Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Public international law | Legal regime | Economy | Globalization | Sovereignty | United States of America | Bilateral investment treaties | Argentina | Mots clefs: Investissements directs à l'étranger | Droit international public | Régime juridique | Economie | Mondialisation | Souveraineté | Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Traités bilatéraux d'investissement | Argentine | ABSTRACT This course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists pri…

H. Pfund, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Private international law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit international privé | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the American approach of the international process of progressive development of private international law, Peter Pfund, Assistant Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, hopes to demystify the international process of unification/harmonization of "private" law at the inter…