d’Avout, Louis Keywords: Multinational enterprises | Conflict of laws | International commercial law | Private international law [p11] d’Avout, Louis NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p21] Louis d’Avout, né le 29 janvier 1978 à Paris. Education secondaire à Dijon (Bourgogne) ; études supérieures aux Universités de Cologne et Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (LLM, maîtrise franco-allemande), puis Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) ; docteur en droit (2005), agrégé des Facultés de droit (2007). Professeur à l’Université de Lyon (Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, 2007-2012), depuis à l’Université Panth…

Skapski, Józef Keywords: Socialist countries | Sale | Law of contracts | Private international law | International commercial law | Mots clefs: Pays socialistes | Vente | Droit des obligations | Droit international privé | Droit commercial international | ABSTRACT The legal rules concerning foreign trade were unified quite extensively (in 1972) in one of the regions of the socialist countries grouped in the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance. However, the existing legal situation is not always satisfactory, and many doubts that nee…

Loquin, Éric Keywords: International commercial law | Material law | Lex mercatoria | Law of contracts | United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 11 April 1980) | Mots clefs: Droit commercial international | Droit matériel | Lex mercatoria | Droit des obligations | Convention des Nations Unies sur les contrats de vente internationale de marchandises (Vienne, 11 avril 1980) | ABSTRACT The rules of private international law seek to attain unity and universality, according to Professor Éric Loquin, Professor of private in…

Kessedjian, Catherine Keywords: Codification | International commercial law | Private international law | International economic relations | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit commercial international | Droit international privé | Relations internationales économiques | ABSTRACT In this course, Catherine Kessedjian attempts to identify the concrete reality of the legal norms created to govern the operations, to understand the context in which the developments proposed by her take place, and to present as accurate a picture possibl…

Rajski, Jerzy Keywords: Socialist countries | International commercial law | Mots clefs: Pays socialistes | Droit commercial international | ABSTRACT In socialist countries, Jerzy Rajski points out in the introduction to his course, the State plays a particularly important role in the process of development of international economic relations. The State acts in two capacities: as a sovereign political subject and as the owner of the basic means of production. After a presentation of the characteristic features and …

Goldschmidt, Werner Keywords: State contracts | Public international law | International commercial law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit commercial international | ABSTRACT Werner Goldschmidt presents, in the introduction of this course devoted to a methodological study of transactions between States and public firms and foreign private firms, the methods dealing with the subject: normology and trialism. In the primary part of his course, the author presents, on one hand, a normological approach to trans…

Freymond, Pierre Keywords: Banks | International commercial law | Mots clefs: Banques | Droit commercial international | ABSTRACT Pierre Freymond points out that the trade in money has been international at all times. However, with the development of international relations, the activity of the banks is growing day by day. The activity is subjected to the general principles governing contracts in international law. Pierre Freymond therefore begins the course by recalling the general principles and drawing the con…

Joachim Bonell, Michael Keywords: International contracts | International commercial law | Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts ABSTRACT The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) was the first attempt to “codify” the general part of international contract law. In this course, Michael Joachim Bonell first presents a brief description of the UNIDROIT Principles. The author then focuses on the three, at least in this context, most relevant ways in which the Princi…

Hongju Koh, Harold Keywords: United States of America | International commercial law | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Trials | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit commercial international | Extraterritorialité des lois | ABSTRACT This course of Harold Hongju Koh, Professor at the University of Yale, New Haven, is devoted to jurisprudential developments relating to the commercial transactions in United States Courts. After a general introduction, Professor Koh develops the subject of American law of foreign sovereignty: …

Kronke, Herbert Keywords: International commercial law | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This inaugural lecture is about institutional co-operation in transnational commercial law and conflict of law. A short overview of the history of distrust of conflict of laws showcases a cause leading to the promotion of transnational commercial law. The course offers then a definition of transnational commercial law, before giving examples of complementarity and co-operat…

F. Vagts, Detlev Keywords: International commercial law | Dispute resolution | Arbitration | Mots clefs: Droit commercial international | Règlement de litiges d'ordre juridique | Arbitrage | ABSTRACT Detlev Vagts, Professor at Harvard Law School, devotes his course to dispute-resolution mechanisms in international business concerning the legal aspects of the mechanisms. However, the author begins his course with a study of the commercial aspects of international transactions. He focuses this study on the choice that must b…

Draetta, Ugo Keywords: InternE-commerce | International commercial law | Mots clefs: Internet | Commerce électronique | ABSTRACT In his course on the Internet and e-commerce, Ugo Draetta, Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, first of all points to the erosion of the normative State monopoly regarding legal relations between private individuals as a consequence of the globalisation of trade, which is accompanied by an empirical phenomenon: the birth of an international law for private individuals (unifo…