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 The general principles of private international law

Contents

• • Matière préliminaire (97-103)   (168K)
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    • Table of contents
    • Biographical note
    • Principal publications
  • Part I. The nature and function of private international law (104-166)   (3M)
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    • 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
    • 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
  • Part II. The relationship between public and private international law (167-194)   (1M)
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    • 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. Scrunity of, and refusal to apply, the law and to respect the executive acts of a foreign recognized government
    • Section 25. Conclusions
  • Part III. The structure and interpretation of rules of private international law (195-225)   (2M)
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    • 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
    • Section 32. Conflict of Laws in time
  • Part IV. Conclusions (226-227)   (105K)
  • Bibliography (228-229)   (93K)