Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

Dogauchi, Masato Keywords: Japan | Private international law | Legal history | Choice of law | Mots clefs: Japon | Droit international privé | Histoire du droit | Choix de la loi applicable | ABSTRACT The course of Masato Dogauchi, Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, has two objectives. One is to provide a brief introduction to choice-of-law rules in Japan. The other is to present a four-step analysis in choice-of-law rules. This method of analysis is considered applicable not only to Japanese rules but also to rules on choi…

Van Gerven, Walter Keywords: Europe | Private international law | Transfer of proceedings | European Union | Mots clefs: Europe | Droit international privé | Renvoi | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Professor Walter van Gerven starts from the observation that there exists on the same territory a multiplicity of levels of legal orders (for example, seven legal orders intervening at different levels in Belgium). M. van Gerven wonders how and on the basis of which criteria it is possible to formulate “conflict” or rather “referral” …

Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Andreas Bucher, Pro…

Baratta, Roberto Keywords: Natural persons | Status | Rights | Effects of foreign instruments | Recognition | Private international law | Mots clefs: Personnes physiques | Statut | Droits | Effets des actes authentiques étrangers | Reconnaissance | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Roberto Baratta, Professor at the University of Macerata, in his course, answers the problem of the "reaction" of private international law to the need of people who, in a society with increased mobility, generally have an interest in maintaining their legal status when mo…

V. M. Struycken, A. Keywords: Hague Academy of International Law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Académie de droit international de La Haye | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Professor Struycken, Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, focuses in his course on the contribution of the Academy to the development of the science and the practice of private international law. Professor Struycker concludes by saying that "[the Academy] has made an immense contribution to the "globalisation…

Audit, Bernard Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The topic that Professor Bernard Audit has selected for this general course on private international law is the search for universality. Professor Audit points out that, although traditional universalism runs up against the diversity of law and its solutions, and a uniform private international law is undoubtedly a wild dream, there exists a common model of private international law which, though Western in o…

Jänterä-Jareborg, Maarit Keywords: Municipal courts | Foreign law | Choice of law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Juridiction nationale | Droit étranger | Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé | …

Kronke, Herbert Keywords: Stock market transactions | Private international law | Mots clefs: Opérations de bourse | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course, Herbert Kronke deals with capital markets where long-term financial instruments, stocks or shares, bonds, and the like are traded. Delocalization, integration, and globalization of capital markets might be viewed as developments tending to divest conflict of laws of its rule over international transactions on those markets. The author then focuses on…

Baxi, Upendra Keywords: Multinational enterprises | Tort | Private international law | Accountability | Mots clefs: Entreprises internationales | Quasi-contrats et quasi-délits | Droit international privé | Responsabilité | ABSTRACT Professor Upendra Baxi's course focuses on mass disasters as they appear in private international law. It seeks to narrate the ways …

Y. Gotanda, John Keywords: Damages | Compensation for damage | Private international law | Punitive damages | Mots clefs: Dommages-intérêts | Compensation | Droit international privé | Dommages-intérêts extravagants comme pénalité | ABSTRACT With the emergence of the global economy, disputes between transnational contracting parties have increased in number, size and complexity. In these transnational disputes, claims for damages are growing in frequency. This course by John Gotanda, Professor at Villanova University School of …

ANDREAS BUCHER Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this general course on private international law, Andreas Bucher, Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, makes a systematic and in-depth study of the subjects of private international law: conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction, plurality of courts, concentration of disputes. Professor Bucher begins his first chapter, devoted to the pluralism of the methods of private international law, with …

Picone, Paolo Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Professor Paolo Picone observes that, after a period of absolute prevalence of the concept of conflict as defined by Savigny, the more recent conflict systems (following the reforming laws adopted in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy) now resort to four different methods of co-ordinating lex fori with foreign legal systems: beside the still dominant traditional provisions, one finds provisions that are inspired …