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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …