Moura Vicente, Dário Keywords: Intellectual property | Private international law | Industrial property | Unification of law | Rights relating to literary and artistic works | Unfair competition | Dispute resolution | European Union | Mots clefs: Propriété intellectuelle | Droit international privé | Propriété industrielle et scientifique | Unification du droit | Propriété litteraire et artistique | Concurrence déloyale | Règlement de litiges d'ordre juridique | Union européenne | ABSTRACT The study conducted by Dario Moura Vicente, Professor at the University of Li…

K. Kuhn, Arthur Keywords: Effets négociables | Unification of law | Mots clefs: Titres négociables | Unification du droit | ABSTRACT After a general presentation of bills of exchange in international trade, Arthur Kuhn presents the main problems raised in international trade by the conflict of laws related to bills of exchange. He then studies the Hague Convention on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. The author then focuses on the positive provisions of the Uniform Rules, then to the draft elaborated at the Ha…

Moursi Badr, Gamal Keywords: Agency | Private law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: Représentation | Droit privé | Unification du droit | ABSTRACT In his course on the agency, Gamal Moursi Badr presents the results obtained by the unification of the material rules on the agency and by the establishment of uniform and specific rules of conflict of laws in agency. Previously, he identified the "problem areas" in the substantive law relating to the agency and the solutions proposed by the conflict of laws. In order to ens…

Volken, Paul Keywords: Insolvency law | Private international law | Unification of law | Insolvency | Mots clefs: Droit de la faillite | Droit international privé | Unification du droit | Faillite | ABSTRACT According to Paul Volken, Professor at the University of Fribourg, three reasons justify a new presentation of international bankruptcy law within the Academy: the European Convention held on 5 June 1990 on certain international aspects of the bankruptcy law, the tendency within the European Communities to resume the Communi…

Malintoppi, Antonio Keywords: Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Unification du droit | ABSTRACT Antonio Malintoppi puts forward a hypothesis that it is very likely that the emergence of situations of potential conflicts of law more frequently in a given field almost always leads to the search for other normative solutions through international conventions of uniform law. At one stage, the development becomes an essential factor in determining the international le…

E. Von Overbec, Alfred Keywords: Estate | Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: Successions | Droit international privé | Unification du droit | ABSTRACT Alfred von Overbeck begins his course with some general observations on the unification of private international law, and then on the private international law of succession by studying the prospects for the unification of substantive conflict rules. Finally, he examines an aspect of the law of Succession, which has already been the subject of an international convention: the form of wills. Alfred von Overbec…

Mario Matteucci, M. Keywords: Unification of law | Mots clefs: Unification du droit | ABSTRACT Mario Matteucci devotes his course to the analysis of the fundamental problems related to the unification of law in order to contribute to the construction of a general theory of uniform law. The author begins by presenting the concept of uniform law and its historical evolution. The author then presents the subject of the uniform law and its elaboration, discusses the application of uniform law (its interpretation, …