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 con…

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…

Parra-Aranguren, Gonzalo Keywords: Latin America | Private international law | Harmonisation | Conventions | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Droit international privé | Unification | Conventions | ABSTRACT The oldest attempt of codification of private international law has seen the light of day in the American continent, the oldest being linked to the Congress of Panama convened by Simon Bolivar. However, Gonzalo Para-Aranguren, Professor at the University of Caracas, studies the recent developments (at the time of writing t…

Adolfo Vieira, Manuel Keywords: Latin America | Integration | Private international law | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Intégration | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Manuel Adolfo Vieira begins his course on the role played by Private International Law in the Development of Latin American Integration by presenting the current situation of private international law. He then examines the influence of the integration process on private international law, and later the evolution of private international law in Latin Am…