H. Pfund, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Private international law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit international privé | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the American approach of the international process of progressive development of private international law, Peter Pfund, Assistant Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, hopes to demystify the international process of unification/harmonization of "private" law at the inter…

Hostie, Jean Keywords: United States of America | Supreme court | Public international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Cour suprême | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Jean Hostie explains that the Supreme Court of the United States holds a unique position in the Law of nations because of two particularities: the Supreme Court has inherited the jurisdiction over disputes between States of the Union and, in the disputes between individuals, its freedom of judgment with respect to other governmental powers is m…

H. Graveson, Ronald Keywords: United States of America | Legal principles | Private international law | Great Britain | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Principes de droit | Droit international privé | Grande-Bretagne | ABSTRACT Ronald H. Graveson offers in this course a comparative study of the evolution of the conflicts of laws in England and in the United States. After a presentation of the context of the conflict of laws in the Common Law, the author examines the issues of domicile, marriage, divorce, contracts, and torts. Ronald H. Graveson propose dans ce cours une étude …

Hill Kay, Herma Keywords: United States of America | Jurisconsults | Conflict of laws | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Juristes | Droit interrégional | Doctrines | ABSTRACT Herma Hill Kay, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devotes her course to a defense of Brainerd Currie’s approach to the determination of applicable law in private international law, as he developed it between 1958 and 1965, and called it governmental interest analysis. After a presentation of the historical context of …

Enrique Alvarez, José Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Public international law | Legal regime | Economy | Globalization | Sovereignty | United States of America | Bilateral investment treaties | Argentina | Mots clefs: Investissements directs à l'étranger | Droit international public | Régime juridique | Economie | Mondialisation | Souveraineté | Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Traités bilatéraux d'investissement | Argentine | ABSTRACT This course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists pri…

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: …

Matos, José Keywords: United States of America | League of Nations | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Société des Nations | ABSTRACT Jose Matos presents in his course a systematic study of the participation of the American continent in international life. After a historical introduction notably devoted to the contribution of Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suarez, the author studies the Panaman Congress of 1926. He focuses on Article 21 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and to the doctrine of Monroe. He …

C. Symeonides, Symeon Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT Symeon Symeonides, Dean of devotes this course to a phenomenon known as a "revolution" in private international law in the United States, which more precisely relates to the law of conflicts of law. Symeonides studies the historic background of this phenomenon, but also looks towards the future to try to discover what the next step in the evolution of American conflicts law …

H. L. Bellot, Hugh Keywords: United States of America | Private international law | Great Britain | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit international privé | Grande-Bretagne | ABSTRACT Hugh Bellot presents his course on private international law in England and the United States by presenting the origins and history of international law (Roman legal system, early medieval period, late medieval period). The author then focuses on the legal and political theories in England and the United States, the application of forei…

M. North, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Family law | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit de la famille | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to Development of Rules of Private International Law in the Field of Family Law, Peter North assigns several missions. He intends to show what developments have taken place in this field, why they have intervened in the field, what their effects have been, and what their future will be. He concentrates mainl…

Cohen, Maxwell Keywords: Canada | United States of America | Great Lakes | Boundary wateInternational watercourses | Water | Shared natural resources | International regime | Mots clefs: Canada | Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Cours d eau frontières | Lacs (Grands) | ABSTRACT Maxwell Cohen, Professor at Mc Gill University, notes that the importance of study of international rivers in public international law comes from the geophysical reality that rivers impose on peoples, and artificial political divisions that cut off rivers or create divisi…

Brilmayer, Lea Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT Lea Brilmayer, Professor at New York University, devotes this course to the American choice of law theory, and more particularly to the role of substantive policies with regard to the formation and application of choice of law rules. Professor Brilmayer is particularly interested in the system of legal realism. The general introduction to her course is dedicated to the problem of …

E. Herzog, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Constitutional law | Common law | Civil law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit constitutionnel | Pays de Common law | Droit civil | ABSTRACT The point of this class is to understand the manner in which constitutional rules impact the choice of law depending on the countries. This study starts with a casuistic understanding of the position of United States, followed by Canada and Australia, as they are federal countries under common la…

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…

R. P. Edmund A. Walsh, le Keywords: United States of America | Diplomacy | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Diplomatie | ABSTRACT R.P. Walsh writes in 1939 that the current pessimistic mood prevailing in many quarters probably considers any study of diplomacy as better suited to the antiquarian and the amateur of historical curiosities compared to the student of vital international relations as conducted in August 1939. However, the author continues that the diplomatic attitude of the United States, in the uncerta…

Hay, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Europe | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit international privé | Europe | ABSTRACT Peter Hay, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, emphasizes in the introduction to his course that a contradiction between the need for flexibility (to avoid an unfair decision) and the need for legal certainty cannot be resolved. It is the natural consequence of the difference between the development…

F. Cavers, David Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT David Cavers devotes his general course on private international law on the situation in the United States (in 1970). He begins the course by presenting a legal system of the United States and its private international law. He then presents some persistent conceptual problems, and new approaches emerging in international law to the choice of tort law. He examines three clusters o…

Reese, W. Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | ABSTRACT Professor Reese's course mainly focuses on the Restatement of Conflict of Laws Second. The restatements are documents containing several hundred Common law rules updated and commented by the American Law Institute. The author begins with a presentation of the restatements and the American Law Institute, different approaches to choice of law, and then presents the approach that Restatement second has policies of choice of law, contracts, and torts. Le c…

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…

B. Cowles, Willard Keywords: Federal states | Public international law | United States of America | Mots clefs: Etats fédéraux | Droit international public | Etats-Unis d’Amérique | ABSTRACT Willard B. Cowles devotes his course to the way in which International law is applied between subdivisions of federations. After a general part of his study focusing on ancient Greece and Rome, the American Indian tribes, the Swiss Cantons, and Germany, the author offers an in-depth examination of the position of the United States of Am…