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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

Bonomi, Andrea Keywords: Law of succession | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit des successions | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Mr. Bonomi notes that the law of international succession is a rich and complex subject. He deals with issues of classical private international law. These issues have already been the subject of numerous writings by scholars, but also the evolution of national systems and European perspectives justifying further study of the problems according to Professor Bonomi. As a par…

D. González Campos, Julio Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT This general course on private international law by Julio D. González Campos is guided by an idea: the current position of private international law with regard to its general function, that is to say, the regulation of private relationships across national borders, is only the result of the social and legal changes which took place since the middle of the nineteenth century. The actual state of priv…

Tiburcio, Carmen Keywords: Private international law | International law of procedure | International law of procedure: jurisdiction ABSTRACT International cooperation, together with the determination of the applicable legislation and jurisdiction, are the three main objectives of the study of private international law. In this course, Carmen Tiburcio first provides a brief introduction on cooperation and private international law and explores the parameters of international cooperation. She defines cooperation a…

Moura Vicente, Dário Keywords: Intellectual property | Private international law | Industrial property | Unification of law | Rights relating to literary and artistic works | Unfair competition | Dispute resolution | European Union | Mots clefs: Propriété intellectuelle | Droit international privé | Propriété industrielle et scientifique | Unification du droit | Propriété litteraire et artistique | Concurrence déloyale | Règlement de litiges d'ordre juridique | Union européenne | ABSTRACT The study conducted by Dario Moura Vicente, Professor at the University of Li…

Susana Najurieta, María Keywords: MinoChildren | Family law | Adoption | Private international law | Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (The Hague, 29 May 1993) | Children's rights | Human rights | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to understand what the law can offer, through family law, comparative law, and private international law, for the well-being of children and the respect of their fundamental rights. Thus, this course is divided into a chapter-by-chapter study of the fu…