Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

N. Sadikov, O. Keywords: International transport | Private international law | Mots clefs: Transports internationaux | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to the conflict of laws in international transport law, O.N. Sadikov deals with the problems of conflict in international transport law as an integral part of private international law. He also focuses on certain specific transport issues, in particular the transport contract. The author successively attempts on the problems of conflicts in…

I. H. Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor, Mrs. Keywords: Air law | Private international law | Space law | Mots clefs: Droit aérien | Droit international privé | Droit cosmique | ABSTRACT In her course, Professor Diederiks-Verschoor, University of Utrecht, studies air and space law in terms of their similarities and differences. The author devotes the first chapter of her study to a presentation of ideas and concepts related to the delimitation between air law and space law. He then examines in detail the issue of liability as well as…

A. M. Riad, Fouad Keywords: State-owned enterprises | Private international law | Mots clefs: Entreprises publiques | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The ever-increasing role played by the modern state in the economic life of any national society is one of the most remarkable phenomena of modern era. This phenomenon has led to fundamental transformations in various national systems. Fouad Riad explains that private international law, whose task is to ensure the parallel coexistence of these systems, was bound to…

Dogauchi, Masato Keywords: Japan | Private international law | Legal history | Choice of law | Mots clefs: Japon | Droit international privé | Histoire du droit | Choix de la loi applicable | ABSTRACT The course of Masato Dogauchi, Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, has two objectives. One is to provide a brief introduction to choice-of-law rules in Japan. The other is to present a four-step analysis in choice-of-law rules. This method of analysis is considered applicable not only to Japanese rules but also to rules on choi…

D. González Campos, Julio Keywords: Judicial competence | Private international law | Mots clefs: Compétence judiciaire | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT The objective of the course by Professor González Campos, University of Oviedo, deals with the relations between legal and legislative competence in private international law. He analyzes the relations between the rules governing the two essential areas of the international private law. The author successively examines the historical problem of the relations be…

Fallon, Marc Keywords: European Economic Community | Private international law | European Union | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit international privé | Union européenne | ABSTRACT In his course, Marc Fallon, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, sets out to measure the impact of the Community's body of rules relating to the internal market on the general theory of conflict of jurisdictions and conflicts of law. To this purpose, Professor Fallon demonstrates that it is possible for the Community to treat issues of pr…

Capotorti, F. Keywords: Ability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Capacité | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In his course on the Power in Private International Law, Francesco Capotorti reflects mainly on Italian law. As this right is strictly related to other legal systems of continental Western Europe, the basis of its research naturally extends to the concepts and rules which they derive from a common tradition. The author provides further indications of comparative law when the content of contine…

Giuliano, Mario Keywords: Contracts | Private international law | Law of contracts | Mots clefs: Contrats | Droit international privé | Droit des obligations | ABSTRACT Mario Giuliano addresses the subject of his course in the context of a Comparative Law approach to the main problems raised by conflicts of law on matters relating to contracts. After a study of the principle and theoretical justification of the autonomy law, the author focuses on the question of the implementation of the autonomy law. He then examines th…

Boye, Abd-El-Kader Keywords: Southern Africa | Personal status | Private international law | Mots clefs: Afrique australe | Statut personnel | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Abd-El-Kader Boye, Professor at the University Sheik Anta Diop of Dakar, underlines in the introduction to his course that the moment has come to ask certain questions with respect to personal status and conflicts of laws. Answers to questions such as "How do African states perceive personal status?" could well be the precursors of a future Afr…

Schwind, Fritz Keywords: Divorce and judicial separation | Private international law | Mots clefs: Divorce | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Fritz Schwind begins his course on Divorce in Private International Law with some preliminary considerations on the rule of conflict, marriage, and divorce. He then discusses the differences between divorce and other possibilities of marriage dissolution. He studies two main issues, namely the problem of the divorce of foreigners and the recognition of foreign divorces. Fritz Schwind commence son cours sur le divorce en droit …

Graveson, Ronald Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Ronald Graveson, Professor at the University of London, defines the non-unified legal system as that of a State with more than one legal system. This is the case, for example, in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Czechoslovakia, and Canada. The questions that the author proposes to solve in his course are the following: what law must be applied? Which judicial system is competent? What are t…

Schwind, Fritz Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT A general course on private international law must consider two points in particular: the relationship between private law and public law; and the destabilization of the exclusive right and private law in particular. In this course, Fritz Schwind begins with a discussion on the plurality of rights and explains the theories favorable to the application of judges by themselves to the oppositions of foreign law.…

Lipstein, K. Keywords: Legal principles | Private international law | Mots clefs: Principes de droit | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT K. Lipstein begins his course on the General Principles of Private International Law with a presentation on the nature and function of international law, and thus presents a history of private international law established in Rome. The author then examines the relationship between private international law and public international law, including private international law as an e…

Van Gerven, Walter Keywords: Europe | Private international law | Transfer of proceedings | European Union | Mots clefs: Europe | Droit international privé | Renvoi | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Professor Walter van Gerven starts from the observation that there exists on the same territory a multiplicity of levels of legal orders (for example, seven legal orders intervening at different levels in Belgium). M. van Gerven wonders how and on the basis of which criteria it is possible to formulate “conflict” or rather “referral” …

Kessedjian, Catherine Keywords: Codification | International commercial law | Private international law | International economic relations | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit commercial international | Droit international privé | Relations internationales économiques | ABSTRACT In this course, Catherine Kessedjian attempts to identify the concrete reality of the legal norms created to govern the operations, to understand the context in which the developments proposed by her take place, and to present as accurate a picture possibl…

Ballarino, T. Keywords: DisasteCivil liability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Catastrophes | Responsabilité civile | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Tito Ballarino, Professor at the University of Padua, points out from the perspective of "international" private law, the question of the study of catastrophic damage is made more complex than in public international law because of the confrontation of the rule of conflict to a bundle of relationships between individuals and even between individuals and t…

Opertti Badan, Didier Keywords: Adoption | Private international law | Mots clefs: Adoption | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Didier Opperti Badan, Professor at the University of Montevideo, emphasizes in his course that a basic examination of the current situation of international adoption reveals a very marked diversity of criteria, not only in terms of solutions to legal problems of adoption, but simply related to the merits of an implementation that would meet the requests for adoption from foreign countr…

Czachórski, Witold Keywords: Socialist countries | Civil liability | Private international law | Mots clefs: Pays socialistes | Responsabilité civile | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Witold Czachorski, Director of the Institute of Civil Law at the University of Warsaw, studies the mutual relations between private international law and substantive civil law in his course, from the perspective of the general principles of civil liability of socialist countries. Witold Czachórski, directeur de l'Institut de droit civil de l'Université de Varsovie, étudie dans…

M. Bentivoglio, Ludovico Keywords: Air law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit aérien | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT After a presentation of basic considerations related to private international law in the field of air transport, Ludovico Bentivoglio presents the law governing acts and facts on board the aircraft. He examines the question of the choice of law applicable in contracts. Then, in terms of torts, he focuses on the fate of the tort rule lex loci delicti. Finally, he focuses on the cour…