Lequette, Yves Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Conventions | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | Conventions | ABSTRACT In this course Yves Lequette, Professor of the University of Paris II, reports on the constant expansion of the place that is occupied by conventions in contemporary international law, in particular in with respect to family law. On the debit side: the deterioration that this causes with respect to the coherence of the domestic order. On the credit side: than…

Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Andreas Bucher, Professor at the University of Geneva, points out that private international law should take the personality and the interests of each family member into account. However, insofar as these interests are articulated differently for each legal relationship that forms the legal fabric of the family, the result is a certain disruption of the family status. Professor Buc…