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” …

Kessedjian, Catherine Keywords: Codification | International commercial law | Private international law | International economic relations | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit commercial international | Droit international privé | Relations internationales économiques | ABSTRACT In this course, Catherine Kessedjian attempts to identify the concrete reality of the legal norms created to govern the operations, to understand the context in which the developments proposed by her take place, and to present as accurate a picture possibl…

Bonomi, Andrea Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Mr. Bonomi notes that the law of international succession is a rich and complex subject. He deals with issues of classical private international law. These issues have already been the subject of numerous writings by scholars, but also the evolution of national systems and European perspectives justifying further study of the problems according to Professor Bonomi. As a par…

D. González Campos, Julio Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT This general course on private international law by Julio D. González Campos is guided by an idea: the current position of private international law with regard to its general function, that is to say, the regulation of private relationships across national borders, is only the result of the social and legal changes which took place since the middle of the nineteenth century. The actual state of priv…

Moura Vicente, Dário Keywords: Intellectual property | Private international law | Industrial property | Unification of law | Rights relating to literary and artistic works | Unfair competition | Dispute resolution | European Union | Mots clefs: Propriété intellectuelle | Droit international privé | Propriété industrielle et scientifique | Unification du droit | Propriété litteraire et artistique | Concurrence déloyale | Règlement de litiges d'ordre juridique | Union européenne | ABSTRACT The study conducted by Dario Moura Vicente, Professor at the University of Li…

C. Hartley, Trevor Keywords: Common law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Pays de Common law | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In the opening pages of his course on private international law, Trevor C. Hartley, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics, reminds us that private international law, despite its name, is just a branch of the ordinary law of the land: it has no special authority. The only exceptions are the limited number of treaties and the increasing number of EU legal documents th…

P. Pamboukis, Charalambos Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Charalambos P. Pamboukis, Associate Professor at the University of Athens, points out in the introduction to his course that the paradigm of law has changed significantly. Today, we are experiencing a movement of communication integration with effects in various sectors of social, economic, and cultural life through the phenomenon of globalization. The salient feature of the evolution is the emergen…

Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Andreas Bucher, Professor at the University of Geneva, points out that private international law should take the personality and the interests of each family member into account. However, insofar as these interests are articulated differently for each legal relationship that forms the legal fabric of the family, the result is a certain disruption of the family status. Professor Buc…

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 lega…

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 | ABSTRACT In this course on comparative private international law, Professor Maarit Jänteä-Jareborg of the University of Uppsala tackles the question of the application of foreign law in national courts. In the first part of the course, Professor Jänteä-Jareborg presents various old and new theories concerning the…

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…

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 …

Goldstein, Gérald Keywords: Cohabitation | Private international law | Registered partnership | Mots clefs: Concubinage | Droit international privé | Partenariat civil | ABSTRACT In this course, Professor Gérald Goldstein of the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal examines the conflicts of laws concerning cohabitation outside marriage. As the focus is on private international law, the subject excludes the in-depth and exhaustive comparative study of the various domestic law provisions affecting cohabitation or…

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 …

Gaudemet-Tallon, Hélène Keywords: Private international law | Pluralism | Cultural Diversity: Plural Legal Systems | Cultural Diversity and Private International Law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Hélène Gaudemet-Tallon, Professor Emeritus of the University or Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), compares the position of private international law in 2005 to a rainbow and a tightrope walker. As the colours of the rainbow do change imperceptibly, so do the legal categories, the various sources, the objectives that a…

Mezghani, Ali Keywords: Contracts | Illegal activities | Private international law | Law of contracts | Mots clefs: Contrats | Pratiques illicites | Droit international privé | Droit des obligations | ABSTRACT Ali Mezghani reports in this course on the exponential increase of unlawful activities and on the fact that it is impossible for the law to remain without answer vis-à-vis this increase. Professor Mezghani endeavours to give an account of the law's answer in three different terrains. First of all, in the field of rules o…

Briggs, Adrian Keywords: Private international law | Choice of law | International law of procedure | Comity | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Choix du droit applicable | Droit internationale de procédure | Courtoisie internationale | ABSTRACT This course starts by explaining the notion of a comity itself, as there are different sources and types of comities. Comities are curtailing the application of local law, and it is up to them to question, limit or refuse the application of foreign law for their cases. The course follo…