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…

Elihu Lauterpacht, Sir Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | Procedure | Legal principles | International Court of Justice | Law of procedure | International courts | International law of procedure | Consent | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Drawing on his extensive experience, the author examines the range, forms and role of procedure in international litigation. He discusses critically and at length the operation of the principle of consent and the principal elements in the litigation process. Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, directeur émérite du Lauterpacht Center for…

Briggs, Adrian Keywords: Private international law | Choice of law | International law of procedure | Comity | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Choix du droit applicable | Droit internationale de procédure | Courtoisie internationale | ABSTRACT This course starts by explaining the notion of a comity itself, as there are different sources and types of comities. Comities are curtailing the application of local law, and it is up to them to question, limit or refuse the application of foreign law for their cases. The course follo…

Cuniberti, Gilles Keywords: International law of procedure | Effects of foreign sentences [p89] Cuniberti, Gilles NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p93] Gilles Cuniberti, né le 1er avril 1971 à Saint Martin d’Hères (France), de nationalité française. Etudes aux universités de Grenoble, de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), de Paris VII (Diderot), d’Oxford et de Yale. Licence en langues étrangères appliquées, Université Paris VII (1992) ; magistère de droit des activités économiques, Université Paris I (1994) ; DEA en droit international privé et …

M. De Boer, Th. Keywords: International commercial arbitration | International arbitration | Choice of law | Lex fori | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT In arbitration, choice-of-law issues are more complicated than they are in ordinary litigation, as an arbitral tribunal is not bound to the lex fori of the state in which it sits. This lack of obligation to a specific set of national choice of law rules, this freedom of disposition, can lead the tribunal to apply any rule of law that it would deem “appropriate”. The author …