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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 ru…

J. Kassir, Walid Keywords: Renvoi | Private international law | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course deals with renvoi in private international law, beginning with a presentation of the mechanism of renvoi and a study of the classic doctrinal debate. Then, the course uses the method of comparative positive law to meet the objective of "dialogue of cultures". This involves a global panorama of renvoi and an in-depth study of aspects specific to the countries of the Middle East. The last chapter offers a reflection on the problems of dismissal: the conflict rules allergic to d…

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de Vareilles-Sommières, Pascal Keywords: Foreign law | Law of public order | Private international law | Conflict of laws | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course is devoted to the public order exception, and first, to the construction of the paradigm of international substantive regularity. The notions relating to the public policy exception and the regularity of foreign law are approached from the perspective of private international law. This cou…

Lagarde, Paul Keywords: Private international law | Conflict of laws | Choice of law | Recognition | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The method of recognition of situations is the one that allows the recognition of a situation without verification by the State where it is invoked by the law applied at its creation. In this course, Paul Lagarde f…

Kronke, Herbert Keywords: International commercial law | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This inaugural lecture is about institutional co-operation in transnational commercial law and conflict of law. A short overview of the history of distrust of conflict of laws showcases a cause leading to the promotion of transnational commercial law. The course offers then a definition of transnational commercial law, before giving examples of complementarity and co-operation (intermediated securities, secured transactions, and contract law) It also conveys the role of specific conventions and …

Patrick Glenn, H. Keywords: Conflict of laws | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT In this course, H. Patrick Glenn examines the so-called classical logic of private international law and reflects on the consequences of logic for private international law. He discusses the history of conflict of laws and the history of the conciliation of laws. The author discusses the conflict of laws and rules of private international law and examin…

Basedow, Jürgen Keywords: Private international law | Conflict of laws | Development of international law | Globalization | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course looks into private international law from a new perceptive, by first focusing on the actor of international areas, private as public and what are their common point. The goal is to understand how closed nation-States, by globalization, showed an evolution leading to open society. After that, different form of private ordering intended to reduce the risk of inter…

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…

Opertti Badán, Didier Keywords: Conflict of laws | Private international law | Unification of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Didier Opertti Badán presented this course on the conflict of laws and uniform law in contemporary private international law at the 2012 inaugural conference. According to the author, the conflict of laws and jurisdictions are two autonomous legal categories that require a specific approach and respective technical solutions. He does so without denying the link that exists between them, which ca…

Gannagé, Léna Keywords: Culture | Cultural diversity | Private international law | Conflict of laws | Pluralism | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Private international law shows men and women from all walks of life every day, forming family relationships at the borders of legal orders of different cultures. The pluralism of family models prevailing in Europe is opposed to the hegemonism of a single-family model in Southern Mediterranean countries. In this course, Léna Gannagé describes the failure of the methods of private int…

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Meeusen, Johan Keywords: Equality | Human rights | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Meeusen, Johan

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 …

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…

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…