Principles of the Conflict of Laws National and International

The present volume reproduces with slight changes the course of lectures given at The Hague in 1972 under the title of "The General Principles of Private International Law". The substance of these lec­ tures has remained unaltered, but a number of insertions serve to cor­ rected some forma...

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Main Author: Lipstein, K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1981, 1981
Edition:1st ed. 1981
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Table of Contents:
  • Section 32. Conflict of laws in time
  • Notes to part III
  • IV. Conclusions
  • Table of cases
  • I. The nature and function of Private International Law
  • Section 1. Introduction
  • Section 2. Rome and beyond
  • Section 3. The period after the division of the Roman Empire—personality of laws
  • Section 4. Feudalism and the revival of Roman Law
  • Section 5. Feudalism
  • Section 6. Italy—the Legists
  • Section 7. The doctrine of the Statutists
  • Section 8. The French school in the 16th Century—Dumoulin and D’Argentré
  • Section 9. The Dutch school—Comity
  • Section 10. The subsequent development of the doctrine of Huber—England
  • Section 11. The United States
  • Section 12. Modern Private International Law—Wächter, Savigny
  • Section 13. Modern doctrines of territoriality or pseudo-territoriality—acquired rights
  • Section 14. Sociological neo-statutists
  • Section 15. Wächter redivivus—Ehrenzweig
  • Section 16. Conflict of laws and the American Constitution
  • Section 17. Governmental interests as conflict resolving factors—Currie—Neo-statutists
  • Section 18. “Result selecting” principles—Cavers
  • Section 19. The international use of the new doctrines
  • Section 20. Conclusions
  • Notes to part I
  • II. The relationship between Public and Private International Law
  • Section 21. The influence of Public International Law upon domestic Private International Law
  • Section 22. Private International Law as part of Public International Law—choice of law before international tribunals
  • Section 23. Recognition and the application of foreign law
  • Section 24. Scrutiny of, and refusal to apply, the law and to respect the executive acts of a foreign recognized government
  • Section 25. Conclusions
  • Notes to part II
  • III. The structure and interpretation of rules of Private International Law
  • Section 26. Structure
  • Section 27. Interpretation.
  • Section 28. Spatially conditioned internal rules
  • Section 29. Transposition, substitution and adaptation
  • Section 30. Renvoi
  • Section 31. Preliminary question