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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

C. Hartley, Trevor Keywords: Common law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Pays de Common law | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In the opening pages of his course on private international law, Trevor C. Hartley, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics, reminds us that private international law, despite its name, is just a branch of the ordinary law of the land: it has no special authority. The only exceptions are the limited number of treaties and the increasing number of EU legal documents th…

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Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: …

Baratta, Roberto Keywords: Natural persons | Status | Rights | Effects of foreign instruments | Recognition | Private international law | Mots clefs: Personnes physiques | Statut | Droits | Effets des actes authentiques étrangers | Reconnaissance | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Roberto Baratta, Professor at the…

V. M. Struycken, A. Keywords: Hague Academy of International Law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Académie de droit international de La Haye | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT …

Jänterä-Jareborg, Maarit Keywords: Municipal courts | Foreign law | Choice of law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Juridiction nationale | Droit étranger | Choix de la loi applicable | Droit international privé …

Kronke, Herbert Keywords: Stock market transactions | Private international law | Mots clefs: Opérations de bourse | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course, Herbert Kronke deals with capital markets where long-term financial instruments, stocks or shares, bonds, and the like are traded. Delocalization, integration, and globalization of capital markets might be viewed as developments tending to divest conflict of laws of its rule over international transactions on those markets. The author then focuses on the general aspects of…

Y. Gotanda, John Keywords: Damages | Compensation for damage | Private international law | Punitive damages | Mots clefs: Dommages-intérêts | Compensation | Droit international privé | Dommages-intérêts extravagants comme pénalité | ABSTRACT …

ANDREAS BUCHER Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this general course on private international law, Andreas Bucher, Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva, makes a systematic and in-depth study of the subjects of private international law: conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction, plurality of courts, concentration of disputes. Professor Bucher begins his first chapter, devoted to …

Picone, Paolo Keywords: Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit Picone, Paolo