Taylor von Mehren, Arthur Keywords: Private international law | Judicial competence | Universal jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Compétence judiciaire | Juridiction internationale | ABSTRACT Professor Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Professor at the University of Harvard, devotes his general course on private international law to the theory and practice of adjudicatory authority in private international law, by presenting a comparative study of the doctrines, policies and practices of common law and civil l…

Kinsch, Patrick Keywords: Human rights | Private international law | Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: Droits de l'homme | Droit international privé | Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | ABSTRACT Patrick Kinsch, Attorney at Law in Luxembourg, assigns to his course the aim of demonstrating that there is no radical incompatibility between reasoning in terms of human rights and the application of specific methods to private international law. A peaceful, even enriching, coexisten…

P. Fernández Arroyo, Diego Keywords: Judicial competence | International law of procedure | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international de procédure | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, Professor at the complutense university of Madrid, points out in his introduction to his course that the criteria on which the authorities base their jurisdiction for disputes relating to private international affairs are sometimes difficult to justify. On the basis of this ob…