Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Public order | Private international law | Mots clefs: Ordre public | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT If it is true, as Andreas Bucher, Professor at the University of Geneva says, that public policy is one of the concepts that is best assimilated in the various systems of private international law, its relationship to the rules of conflicts of laws is much less clear. With regard to the undeniable social dimension of the law of the modern state, is it really possible to entrust the re…