N. Sadikov, O. Keywords: International transport | Private international law | Mots clefs: Transports internationaux | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the conflict of laws in international transport law, O.N. Sadikov deals with the problems of conflict in international transport law as an integral part of private international law. He also focuses on certain specific transport issues, in particular the transport contract. The author successively attempts on the problems of conflicts in…

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…

D. González Campos, Julio Keywords: Judicial competence | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The objective of the course by Professor González Campos, University of Oviedo, deals with the relations between legal and legislative competence in private international law. He analyzes the relations between the rules governing the two essential areas of the international private law. The author successively examines the historical problem of the relations be…

Fallon, Marc Keywords: European Economic Community | Private international law | European Union | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit international privé | Union européenne | ABSTRACT In his course, Marc Fallon, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, sets out to measure the impact of the Community's body of rules relating to the internal market on the general theory of conflict of jurisdictions and conflicts of law. To this purpose, Professor Fallon demonstrates that it is possible for the Community to treat issues of pr…

Capotorti, F. Keywords: Ability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Capacité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In his course on the Power in Private International Law, Francesco Capotorti reflects mainly on Italian law. As this right is strictly related to other legal systems of continental Western Europe, the basis of its research naturally extends to the concepts and rules which they derive from a common tradition. The author provides further indications of comparative law when the content of contine…

Giuliano, Mario Keywords: Contracts | Private international law | Law of contracts | Mots clefs: Contrats | Droit international privé | Droit des obligations | ABSTRACT Mario Giulano addresses the subject of his course in the context of a Comparative Law approach to the main problems raised by conflicts of law on matters relating to contracts. After a study of the principle and theoretical justification of the autonomy law, the author focuses on the question of the implementation of the autonomy law. He then examines the…

Simons, Walter Keywords: Germany | Private international law | Mots clefs: Allemagne | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Walter Simons explains that the task of clarifying the German conception of private international law is made difficult by the diversity of opinions which, in Germany, prevailed in 1926 not only in the academic world but also in practice. Times have passed when Savigny’s theory dominated German doctrine and jurisprudence. Renowned theorists have in fact spoken out against the master and soug…

Gamillscheg, F. Keywords: International labour law | Public order | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international ouvrier | Ordre public | ABSTRACT F. Gamillscheg points out in his introduction to the course on the Rules of Public Order in Private International Labor Law that issues related to international labor law are inseparable from the problem of the application of foreign labor law. Few authors consider that these two themes are identical. The author begins his course with a study of national and i…

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…

Monaco, Riccardo Keywords: International transport | Insurances | Private international law | Accountability | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Transports internationaux | Assurances | Droit international privé | Responsabilité | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Riccardo Monaco devotes this course to the study of three major subjects in the field of international insurance law. The author concerns the question of insurance in international transport (particularly in the field of air transport and maritime transport), nuclear insurance, …

C. Pryles, Michael Keywords: Accountability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Responsabilité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Michael Pryles, Professor at the University of Sydney, emphasizes that in the introduction to his course non-contractual obligations are one of the most fascinating areas of private international law. The revolution that took place during the 1980s and before in the United States with regard to the determination of applicable law has largely unfolded in this area. Professor Pr…

Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, Juan Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, notes in the introduction to his course that at a time when the trend toward the opening seems indisputable in private international law, and when the particularist concept seems definitively outdated, the increase in the role of the state in all areas of social life, particularly the economic sphere, has resulted i…

C. Ginsburg, Jane Keywords: Intellectual property | Copyright law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Propriété intellectuelle | Droit d'auteur | ABSTRACT Traditional international copyright rules seem to presume that international infringements will occur sequentially and slowly; but digital networks make possible multinational infringements that are simultaneous and pervasive. In this course, the author first provides an outline on the evolution of the 1886 Berne Convention and the impact of new technologies o…

Voulgaris, Ioannis Keywords: Leasing | Private international law | Mots clefs: Baux | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Ioannis Voulgaris, Professor at the Komotini Demokritos University of Thrace, reminds us in the introduction to his course that the Convention of 1988 on International Financial Leasing was signed on the initiative of Unidroit, and that the convention provides at the same time for substantive rules and rules of conflict. In the first chapter of his course, Professor Voulgaris presents these s…

I. H. Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor, Mrs. Keywords: Air law | Private international law | Space law | Mots clefs: Droit aérien | Droit international privé | Droit cosmique | ABSTRACT In her course, Professor Diederiks-Verschoor, University of Utrecht, studies air and space law in terms of their similarities and differences. The author devotes the first chapter of her study to a presentation of ideas and concepts related to the delimitation between air law and space law. He then examines in detail the issue of liability as well as…

de Visscher, Fernand Keywords: Air law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit aérien | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The conflict is open between universalism and nationalism, notes Fernand De Visscher in the introduction of his course. In order to give an account of this situation, the author starts his course with a presentation of the trials of law related to air law. He then studies the property of aircrafts, air transport and the responsibility of the owner for the damages caused to the third pa…

A. M. Riad, Fouad Keywords: State-owned enterprises | Private international law | Mots clefs: Entreprises publiques | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The ever-increasing role played by the modern state in the economic life of any national society is one of the most remarkable phenomena of modern era. This phenomenon has led to fundamental transformations in various national systems. Fouad Riad explains that private international law, whose task is to ensure the parallel coexistence of these systems, was bound to…

Ballarino, T. Keywords: DisasteCivil liability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Catastrophes | Responsabilité civile | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Tito Ballarino, Professor at the University of Padua, points out from the perspective of "international" private law, the question of the study of catastrophic damage is made more complex than in public international law because of the confrontation of the rule of conflict to a bundle of relationships between individuals and even between individuals and t…

P. de Vries, Henry Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT Henry de Vries devotes his course to Recent Developments in Private International Law in the United States. After an introduction to the doctrines of conflict of laws, the author first discusses the issue of jurisdiction. The author then focuses on the issue of foreign judgments and on the issue of determining the choice of law. Henry de Vries consacre son cours aux développements récents intervenus dans le d…

Opertti Badan, Didier Keywords: Adoption | Private international law | Mots clefs: Adoption | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Didier Opperti Badan, Professor at the University of Montevideo, emphasizes in his course that a basic examination of the current situation of international adoption reveals a very marked diversity of criteria, not only in terms of solutions to legal problems of adoption, but simply related to the merits of an implementation that would meet the requests for adoption from foreign countr…