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…

Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

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…

Muir Watt, Horatia Keywords: Private international law | Legal methodology ABSTRACT The choice of the method by which private international law organizes the meeting of local law with foreignness refers to an invisible background. In this course, Horatia Muir Watt proposes an analysis to better understand the deeper, often unconscious, issues of methodological choices. She divides the course into three parts. The first part brings together the methodological choices that correspond to the partitioning mode…

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…

Lequette, Yves Keywords: Private international law | Conflict of laws ABSTRACT This course is based on the fact that yesterday's world is that of the conflicting paradigm in private international law. This conflictual paradigm mainly involves the conflict of laws, although it can be challenged by the alteration of the conflict rule as well as by the acceptance of foreign decisions. This questioning is articulated on the notion of the next world, to which a second, more prospective part of this course is devoted. This next world, opening up to a new paradi…

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…

Gamillscheg, F. Keywords: International labour law | Public order | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international ouvrier | Ordre public | ABSTRACT F. Gamillscheg points out in his introduction to the course on the Rules of Public Order in Private International Labor Law that issues related to international labor law are inseparable from the problem of the application of foreign labor law. Few authors consider that these two themes are identical. The author begins his course with a study of national and i…

d’Avout, Louis Keywords: Multinational enterprises | Conflict of laws | International commercial law | Private international law [p11] d’Avout, Louis NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p21] Louis d’Avout, né le 29 janvier 1978 à Paris. Education secondaire à Dijon (Bourgogne) ; études supérieures aux Universités de Cologne et Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (LLM, maîtrise franco-allemande), puis Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) ; docteur en droit (2005), agrégé des Facultés de droit (2007). Professeur à l’Université de Lyon (Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, 2007-2012), depuis à l’Université Panth…

Salerno, Francesco Keywords: Private international law | Personal status | Identity [p11] Salerno, Francesco BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE [p16] Francesco Salerno, born in Taranto, Italy, on 25 March 1951, is an Italian national. Degree in Law, University of Florence (1974), Researcher in Law, Universities of Rome and Florence (1975-1987). Associate Professor of International Law, University of Catanzaro (1987) and later Chair, University of Ferrara (1999). Teaching activities include courses of “International Law”, “International Human …

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: 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.…

Kohler, Christian Keywords: Will | Autonomy | Private international law | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the century, the autonomy of the will in private international law has been influenced by two opposing trends. In commercial relations, particularly in contractual matters, a certain "return of the State" is observed. At the same time, the will of individuals is increasingly taken into account in cross-border situations. In this course, Christian Kohler provides an overview of the …

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…

Weizuo, Chen Keywords: China | Private international law | Conflict of laws | Codification | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT In this course, Chen Weizuo examines some general and special issues of the new codification of Chinese private international law and focuses on China's new private international law. The author discusses the need for codification of the rules of law because, historically, China has had a tradition of written law. He focuses on the symposia, meetings, and doctrinal debates on the codification of Chine…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Party autonomy | Choice of law | International contracts | Private international law | International commercial arbitration | Trials | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course focuses on party autonomy in the context of the applicable law issued in international commercial contracts. It goes through explaining the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, finalized in 2013, and how they are used as a recent source on the matter. This reflection leads to the questio…

E. Nygh, Peter Keywords: Australia | Law of contracts | Choice of law | Private international law | Contracts | Tort | Mots clefs: Australie | Droit des obligations | Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé | Contrats | Quasi-contrats et quasi-délits | ABSTRACT This course by Peter E. Nygh, Professor at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast, addresses the role played by the "reasonable expectations of the parties" in conflicts regarding laws of contract and tort. The reasonable expectations of the parties include first of …