C. H. Dunbar, N. Keywords: Sovereign immunitiesc | Private international law | Mots clefs: Immunités judiciaires | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT N.C.H. Dunbar states at the beginning of his course that the times are propitious (in 1971) for a fundamental reassessment of the legal and diplomatic principles relating to the doctrine of State immunity, and intends to contribute to this update as a part of the course. After a presentation of the Belgian and French case law (and the case law of other States) on the …

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…

Muir Watt, Horatia Keywords: Private international law | Legal methodology ABSTRACT The choice of the method by which private international law organizes the meeting of local law with foreignness refers to an invisible background. In this course, Horatia Muir Watt proposes an analysis to better understand the deeper, often unconscious, issues of methodological choices. She divides the course into three parts. The first part brings together the methodological choices that correspond to the partitioning mode…

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…

Lequette, Yves Keywords: Private international law | Conflict of laws ABSTRACT This course is based on the fact that yesterday's world is that of the conflicting paradigm in private international law. This conflictual paradigm mainly involves the conflict of laws, although it can be challenged by the alteration of the conflict rule as well as by the acceptance of foreign decisions. This questioning is articulated on the notion of the next world, to which a second, more prospective part of this course is devoted. This next world, opening up to a new paradi…

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 Giuliano 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 th…

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…

Goldstein, Gérald Keywords: Cohabitation | Private international law | Registered partnership | Mots clefs: Concubinage | Droit international privé | Partenariat civil | ABSTRACT In this course, Professor Gérald Goldstein of the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal examines the conflicts of laws concerning cohabitation outside marriage. As the focus is on private international law, the subject excludes the in-depth and exhaustive comparative study of the various domestic law provisions affecting cohabitation or…

de Miranda, Pontes Keywords: Brazil | Private international law | Mots clefs: Brésil | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Pontes de Miranda begins his course on Brazilian Private International Law by presenting the fundamental principles of private international law. He then studies the adjustment problems in the Brazilian legislation, the principles of production and non-production of effects, and a few special subjects in private international law (family law, property law, law of obligations, and law of successions). Pontes de Miranda commence son cours sur le droit…

Ago, Roberto Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT If we take a look at the current doctrine (1936) of private international law in different countries, we are struck, writes Robert Ago, by the characteristic contrast of conceptions and trends that can be observed there. The author begins with a study of the rules of private international law by a presentation of the nature (object and function) of the rules. He then focuses on the interpretation of these rules…

ANDREAS BUCHER Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this general course on private international law, Andreas Bucher, Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, makes a systematic and in-depth study of the subjects of private international law: conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction, plurality of courts, concentration of disputes. Professor Bucher begins his first chapter, devoted to the pluralism of the methods of private international law, with …

Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

K. Kuhn, Arthur Keywords: United States of America | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Arthur Kuhn’s course is devoted to the doctrine and practice of private international law of the United States. After a presentation of the doctrine of "Comity", the author studies the conception of public policy in the United States. He then focuses on the conception of the criminal law and the procedure for appeals, the ability of the people, the contract and the s…

Valladão, Haroldo Keywords: Marriage | Nationality | Family law | Private international law | Divorce and judicial separation | Habitual residence | Mots clefs: Nationalité | ABSTRACT Haroldo Valladao’s object is to determine, in countries that follow the classic principles of national law or the law of the domicile to regulate the effects and the dissolution of marriage, the choice of law applied, when the spouses do not have the same nationality or domicile, and the choice of respective national or domiciliary laws in c…

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…