M. North, Peter Keywords: Commonwealth | Private international law | Mots clefs: Commonwealth | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Peter North, Principal of Jesus College Oxford, devotes his course to "revolution" in private international law, where the revolution is a process of moving from a conflict of laws between legal orders to a process of selecting a rule rather than a legal order. This would be reform more than a revolution according to the author. Peter North studies successively several important topi…

Chevallier, Jean-Jacques Keywords: Commonwealth | Mots clefs: Commonwealth | ABSTRACT Federation, Community (Commonwealth), League of Nations, all these expressions, notes Jean-Jacques Chevallier, also meet up when it involves reporting this stunning experience of governing men which the development of British Empire provides us. Inside the General Community of States, “Community” or “International Society” is equally vast and less intimate, and also inside the “Society of Nations” of Geneva, community wh…

McClean, David Keywords: Commonwealth | Private international law | Mots clefs: Commonwealth | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In his course of lectures, David McLean, Professor at the University or Sheffield, examines the private international law tradition of the countries that belong to the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth countries share the same legal tradition and stand in a particular stream of legal history: the Common Law tradition as it was developed in England. Professor McClean asks himself in this…