A. Bermann, George Keywords: United States of America | Federalism | European Union | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Fédéralisme | Union européenne | ABSTRACT This course of George A. Bermann, Professor at the University of Colombia, New York, addresses the topic of the legal régime of federalism in two of the most developed divided-power systems in the world today: the European Union and the United States. A comparison between the European Union and the United States as régimes of regulatory federalism is a must, …

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 …

Hongju Koh, Harold Keywords: United States of America | International commercial law | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Trials | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit commercial international | Extraterritorialité des lois | ABSTRACT This course of Harold Hongju Koh, Professor at the University of Yale, New Haven, is devoted to jurisprudential developments relating to the commercial transactions in United States Courts. After a general introduction, Professor Koh develops the subject of American law of foreign sovereignty: …

Enrique Alvarez, José Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Public international law | Legal regime | Economy | Globalization | Sovereignty | United States of America | Bilateral investment treaties | Argentina | Mots clefs: Investissements directs à l'étranger | Droit international public | Régime juridique | Economie | Mondialisation | Souveraineté | Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Traités bilatéraux d'investissement | Argentine | ABSTRACT This course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists pri…

Hill Kay, Herma Keywords: United States of America | Jurisconsults | Conflict of laws | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Juristes | Droit interrégional | Doctrines | ABSTRACT Herma Hill Kay, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devotes her course to a defense of Brainerd Currie’s approach to the determination of applicable law in private international law, as he developed it between 1958 and 1965, and called it governmental interest analysis. After a presentation of the historical context of …