Niboyet, J.-P. Keywords: Reciprocity | Legal principles | Private international law | Treaties | Mots clefs: Réciprocité | Principes généraux du droit | Droit international privé | Traités | ABSTRACT The theme developed by J.-P. Niboyet in his course is the relations that exist or rather should exist between the general principles of civil law and the treaties which are, after all, just the contracts between the States. After outlining a few general considerations, the author examines the patterns of diplomatic reciprocity, …

Lagarde, Paul Keywords: Reciprocity | Private international law | Mots clefs: Réciprocité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The reciprocity in international law refers to the dependence of State’s treatment of problems of private international law in its territory on the treatment given by foreign States to identical problems in their territory. This is, for example, the attitude of State to recognize the effect of judgments given in a Foreign State only if its own judgement is recognized in the foreign stat…

Virally, Michel Keywords: Reciprocity | International law | Mots clefs: Réciprocité | Droit international | ABSTRACT In this course, Michel Virally outlines the role played by reciprocity in the essential mechanisms of international legal order, that is, the mechanisms governing the formation and application of the norms that compose the mechanisms, which enable him to identify the fundamental features of reciprocity and, thus, to throw a little light into the concept of reciprocity. The author starts by studyi…