A. Barberis, Julio Keywords: Latin America | Public international law | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Julio A. Barberis addresses the question of whether, within the framework of the international legal order, there are standards applicable only in a particular regional area or whether, on the contrary, all these standards are universal in scope. In the first part of the course, the author provides the necessary elements to identify the various standards that constitute the international legal order. He also analyzes the characteristics of regional legal standards. In the second part, the author presents the result of investigations on the existence of regional legal standards in Latin America. The methodology used to determine the Latin-American specific standards was to analyze the law currently in force in Latin America by using the concepts of "region" and of "regional legal standard" set out in the first part. This obliged the author to carry out additionally a comparative study of the provisions of laws in Latin America and the law in force in…

Pereznieto Castro, Leonel Keywords: Latin America | Territoriality | Private international law | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Territorialité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Leonel Pereznieto Castro, Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, notes that the private international law has generally been characterized by a search for solutions that make it possible to articulate national laws in order to achieve greater coherence in international legal trade, namely international harmonization. Howev…

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Guani, Albert Keywords: Latin America | International co-operation | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Coopération internationale | ABSTRACT After a presentation of the characteristics of the principles of the law of nations of Latin America, Albert Guani studies the projects of American confederation from the Congress of Panama in 1826 to the Congress of Lima in 1864. The author then focuses on the American congresses of jurisconsults (in Lima in 1877 and Montevideo in 1888), Pan American conferences, Drago’s doctri…