Cansacchi, Giorgio Keywords: Choice of law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Giorgio Cansacchi's course focuses particularly on the study of the choice of the substantive rule competent to settle a disputed situation, or an aspect of that situation, when the judge of forum is faced with a plurality of connecting circumstances enacted by his conflict rule. The author also focuses on the problem of adapting the substantive rule chosen in the order of the forum. Le cours de Giorgio Cansacchi se concentre particu…

Seyersted, Finn Keywords: International organizations | Non-State actoRelations | Choice of law | International civil servants | Individuals | Nongovernmental organizations | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Entités non-étatiques | Relations | Choix de la loi applicable | Fonctionnaires internationaux | Individus | Organisations non-gouvernementales | ABSTRACT According to Finn Seyersted, there exists a common law for international organizations at three levels of relationships: the internal level, the international level, and the…

E. Nygh, Peter Keywords: Australia | Law of contracts | Choice of law | Private international law | Contracts | Tort | Mots clefs: Australie | Droit des obligations | Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé | Contrats | Quasi-contrats et quasi-délits | ABSTRACT This course by Peter E. Nygh, Professor at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast, addresses the role played by the "reasonable expectations of the parties" in conflicts regarding laws of contract and tort. The reasonable expectations of the parties include first of …

M. De Boer, Th. Keywords: Choice of law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course, the author deals with the doctrine of “optional” or “facultative choice of law.” This doctrine touches upon a great many topics, ranging from the role of the court in civil litigation to the relation between treaties and national law, from the function of private international law to the task of supreme courts, and from the nature of mandatory law to the statu…

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…

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…