F. Scoles, Eugene Keywords: Property | Law of succession | Marital property | Mots clefs: Propriété | Droit des successions | Régime des biens des époux | ABSTRACT In this course, Eugene Scoles, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focuses on choice of laws regarding transactions concerning family patrimony. In today’s society, people of different nationalities and place of residences marry, move, transact in several countries, have children, get divorced, remarry, and die in connection with differe…

AUDINET, Eugène Keywords: Marital property | Private international law | Mots clefs: Régime des biens des époux | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Eugene Audinet, in the introduction to the course, explains that the personal relations of the spouses are governed in case of conflict of laws, by the laws which must govern their state, that is to say by their national law: at least this is the solution recommended by the author and accepted in Europe in most continental legislations. The author explains in another vi…

Lagarde, Paul Keywords: Law of contracts | Private international law | Marital property | Mots clefs: Droit des obligations | Régime des biens des époux | ABSTRACT Paul Lagarde, Professor at the University of Paris I, notes in the introduction to his general course on private international law that the private international law can always be considered as the right to attachment, the most important question is that of the basis of the selected attachment. In this regard, the author notes, there is at least one point on wh…