Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Party autonomy | Choice of law | International contracts | Private international law | International commercial arbitration | Trials | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course focuses on party autonomy in the context of the applicable law issued in international commercial contracts. It goes through explaining the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, finalized in 2013, and how they are used as a recent source on the matter. This reflection leads to the questio…

Jayme, Erik Keywords: Languages | Choice of law | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Language is an important element in private international law. As a connecting factor, it is an element of a person's identity, can be used in family and succession law, or to define the habitual character of a residence. The language also has a role to play in certain cases for the principle of nationality or in contracts where it can justify a tacit choice of law. The question of linguistic risk is also mentioned, in the case of languages not known by weak people. The laws on …