Recueil Des Cours Collected Courses Volume 295 2002

The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the "Collected Courses of the" To access the abstract texts for this volume please click here

Il s’agit des travaux écrits du congrès mondial des huissiers de justice. Lors de ce congrès (qui se déroule tous les 3 ans) qui se tient à Dubaï fin novembre on désire donner un aperçu de la profession au travers du monde et des pays. Il s’agit de montrer ici particulièrement quel a été l’impact du Covid et de quelle manière la profession a réagie surtout au niveau de la digitalisation. Il s’agit de montrer que l’humain n’est pas dissociable de la digitalisation dans une matière aussi sensible que l’exécution forcée. Il s’agit de la première fois pour l’UIHJ de publier un ouvrage distribué au congrès qui sera disponible à la vente. Les résultats des travaux qui amènent à cet ouvrage sont cruciaux et important pour l’avenir de notre profession. L’expérience qui existe au sein de chacun des 93 membres de l’UIHJ est une richesse dont tout le monde doit s’inspirer dans un domaine aussi sensible que l’exécution forcée. Par ailleurs nous constatons dans notre profession d’huissier de justice que notre monde est entouré de la digitalisation et qu’on assiste à une émergence de notions que nous avons du mal à cerner tel que Blockchain, AI, Big Data, Machine Learning... au début ces termes ne nous faisaient pas peur, depuis l’apparition de la justice prédictive, des smart contrat qui s’auto exécutent il est temps pour la profession de réagir. L’ouvrage se veut donc le résultat de cette recherche à travers le monde afin de proposer des pistes et solutions concrètes de quelle manière l’huissier de justice peut-il enrichir la digitalisation dans un monde où on veut le contraire, c’est-à-dire promouvoir la fin des tiers de confiance.

Is Private International Law (PIL) still fit to serve its function in today’s global environment? In light of some calls for radical changes to its very foundations, this timely book investigates the ability of PIL to handle contemporary and international problems, and inspires genuine debate on the future of the field.

In many African countries, litigants experience significant uncertainty in their attempts to enforce foreign judgments. Drawing on the experiences of the United Kingdom and the United States (vis-à-vis efforts to attain an effective global legal framework on foreign judgments), this book undertakes a comparative analysis of how South African and Nigerian courts can promote the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in a fair manner. This comparative analysis is made considering both African countries as paradigms of their respective legal traditions. The author, a legal consultant and academic in private international law analyses, stage by stage, the challenging process that litigants face when they seek to enforce foreign judgments in South Africa and Nigeria. This analysis includes insightful consideration of broader issues such as the following: how challenges faced by judgment creditors may be circumvented; practical issues impeding the free movement of foreign judgments; impact of globalisation, increase in international commercial transactions, and regionalism on private international law; application of ‘fairness’; how territorial sovereignty and State interests in international commerce impede the free movement of foreign judgments; and ‘qualified obligation’, under which courts would presumptively enforce foreign judgments subject to certain exceptions and to the balancing of competing interests between private litigants and the State. The comparative analysis is undergirded by relevant case law – spanning decades in Africa and centuries in Europe and the United States. In summary, the author projects a clear case for predictability and certainty in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, as well as how to go about it, thus offering lawyers a strategic position to weigh their options in contemplating enforcement of foreign judgments in any jurisdiction even beyond the African region. This innovative approach will also be of particular value to policymakers at national levels, international and regional economic organisations, as well as scholars in private international law and international commercial law generally. This is regardless of their specific legal area or niche, especially considering the dearth of literature in African private international law.

With articles by Symeon Symeonides, Ronald A. Brand, Andrea Bonomi, national reports from Korea, Bulgaria and Slovenia and news from The Hague and Brussels as well as texts, materials and recent developments.

From 2005 on the Yearbook of Private International Law is published by S.ELP in cooperation with the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. This English-language annual publication provides analysis and information on private international law developments world-wide. The Editors commission articles of enduring importance concerning the most significant trends in the field. The Yearbook also devotes attention to the important work and research carried out in the context of the Hague Conference, The Hague Academy, UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT. The authority of the editors and the lasting nature of the works included make the Yearbook an integral addition to the libraries of international law scholars and practitioners.

"The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this course the multilateral rights and obligations in International Law. He starts by introducing terms that a priori do not seem to pose any particular problem (such as for instance the terms bilateral and multilateral), but that on closer inspection deserve to be looked at in more detail. He then gives an historical outline of the development of multilateral law-making. In the next chapter he examines the multilateral treaty as constitution and the United Nation Charter. James Crawford then studies the "sources" of international law as sources of multilateral rights and obligations: multilateral rights and obligations as components of general international law, and the development of the multilateral categories (jus cogens, etc.). In the last chapters, Professor Crawford tackles the question of claims for breaches of multilateral obligations and the decriminalization of State responsibility by looking at the peremptory norms and international crimes of State"--Publisher's description.