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” …

Yanagihara, Masaharu Keywords: Europe | East Asia | Public international law | International law | History of international law | Universalism | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The purpose of this course is to show the critical importance of historical viewpoint on international law in Europe and East Asia. Thus, the beginning aims to understand whether international law is really a concept unique to the European States in pre-modern and modern times, as it was often assumed for a long time. It appears that many countries had anot…

R. Beaumont, Paul Keywords: Europe | Children | Abduction | European Union | Court of Justice of the European Communities | Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (The Hague, 25 October 1980) | Case-law | Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 [Brussels, 27 November 2003] | Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union | Council of Europe | European Court o…

Degan, Vladimir-Djuro Keywords: Europe | Newly-independent states | Recognition of states | State succession | Mots clefs: Europe | Etats nouveaux | Reconnaissance des Etats | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Vladimir-Djuro Degan, Professor Emeritus of the University of Rijeka, asks a certain number of questions in the introduction to his course: is there such a thing as an international community at the present time, and can it be claimed that this community is in itself a subject of international law? What is the importance of…

Bernad Y Alvarez De Eulate, Maximiliano Keywords: Europe | Transfrontier co-operation | Mots clefs: Europe | Coopération transfrontalière | ABSTRACT Maximiliano Bernad y Alvarez de Eulate, Professor at the University of Saragossa, proposes to draw the attention of the reader to the problems and the achievements of regional and local cross-border cooperation, to show how in practice this is characterized by a very important degree of spontaneousness, diversity and flexibility, and to highlight certain trends. Profes…