Susana Najurieta, María Keywords: MinoChildren | Family law | Adoption | Private international law | Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (The Hague, 29 May 1993) | Children's rights | Human rights | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to understand what the law can offer, through family law, comparative law, and private international law, for the well-being of children and the respect of their fundamental rights. Thus, this course is divided into a chapter-by-chapter study of the fu…

Meziou, Kalthoum Keywords: European Union | Migration | Family life | Immigration | Foreign workeFamily reunion | Human rights | Domestic relations | France | Maghreb | Family law | Islamic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The "conflict of civilizations" conveys a globalized and fixed vision of the Muslim world and conceals the changes that have affected, to varying degrees, family law, particularly in the Maghreb. The theme, revisited through family relations in the context of Euro-Maghreb migration, must be surpassed. The focus on fun…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Choice of law | Unification of law | Law of contracts | Model law | Legal principles | Conventions | Directives | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving …

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…

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…

Pålsson, Lennart Keywords: Sweden | Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Suède | Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT In this course, Lennart Palsson, Professor at the University of Lund, considers different issues related to conflicts of law in family matters, with a particular focus on Swedish law. Without claiming to be exhaustive, Lennart Palsson presents certain subjects of Swedish private international law relating to the family law. He focuses on the issues of paternity, maintenance obligations, and matrimonial property regimes. Dans ce …

M. North, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Family law | Conflict of laws | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit de la famille | ABSTRACT In this course devoted to Development of Rules of Private International Law in the Field of Family Law, Peter North assigns several missions. He intends to show what developments have taken place in this field, why they have intervened in the field, what their effects have been, and what their future will be. He concentrates mainl…

Sosniak, Mieczyslaw Keywords: Socialist countries | Civil law | International law | Treaties | Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Pays socialistes | Droit civil | Droit international | Traités | Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Since the objective of the Socialist States is to correlate and harmonize the principles of their legal relations, they have not, however, decided to harmonize all the principles in all the concerned countries, even though, on the ground of the Socialist bloc, many agreem…

Valladão, Haroldo Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Haroldo Valladao presents his General Course on Private International Law by dividing the course into preliminary concepts, fundamental concepts, and applications. The preliminary concepts constitute a general presentation of private international law (with references to the Brazilian situation). The fundamental concepts involve the method, the sources, and the nature of the norm…

Katičić, Natko Keywords: Yugoslavia | Family law | Private international law | Law of succession | Mots clefs: Yougoslavie | Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | Droit des successions | ABSTRACT Natko Katicic writes in the introduction to his course that starting from abstraction for achieving the substance or studying the substance for subjecting the substance to a general system is a reverse operation, but which leads to the same study and same recognition. The author studies in this course the Private Internation…

Benattar, Raoul Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Raoul Benatter reminds us in the introduction of his course that the term country of personal law refers to countries whose legal systems, on one hand, determine the law applicable to the personal status by the sole criterion of the membership of an individual in an ethnic, a religious or a national community, and on the other hand, incorporate a personal law in the personal status…

Valladão, Haroldo Keywords: Marriage | Nationality | Family law | Private international law | Divorce and judicial separation | Habitual residence | Mots clefs: Nationalité | ABSTRACT Haroldo Valladao’s object is to determine, in countries that follow the classic principles of national law or the law of the domicile to regulate the effects and the dissolution of marriage, the choice of law applied, when the spouses do not have the same nationality or domicile, and the choice of respective national or domiciliary laws in c…