Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses, Tome 379

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32127-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Französisch, Band 379, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law - Recueil des cours

The Limits of the Law, by V. LOWE, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford.

Party Autonomy in Litigation and Arbitration in View of the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, by K. BOELE-WOELKI, Professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Public Policy: Common Principles in the American States, by C. FRESNEDO DE AGUIRRE, Professor at the University of the Republic and the Catholic University, Uruguay.

Changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement et droit international, par R. BEN ACHOUR, professeur emeritus à l’Université de Tunis.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Limits of the Law, by V. LOWE:

Introduction;
The optional nature of Law;
Options in international relations;
The limits of international law;
ii(i) “Intractable problems”;
i(ii) The “grain” of international law;
(iii) The conceptual limitations of international law;
Conclusion.

Party Autonomy in Litigation and Arbitration in View of the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, by K. BOELE-WOELKI:

Chapter I. Introduction;
Chapter II. The Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts;
Chapter III. Which national law is the most attractive contract law ?;
Chapter IV. The selected dispute resolution mechanism;
Chapter V. Designation of other law than national law;
1. Designation of the CISG;
2. Designation of the CESL;
3. Designation of the UNIDROIT Principles;
Chapter VI. Do the Hague Principles bring any change ?;
Chapter VII. Final considerations;
Bibliography.

Public Policy: Common Principles in the American States, by C. FRESNEDO DE AGUIRRE:

Excerpt of table of contents:

Introduction;
1. Aim of the course; 2. Plan of the course;
Chapter I. Necessary tools to develop in depth the subject of this course
1. Main concepts; 2. The concept and scope of public policy – a priori and a posteriori – through the codification of private international law; 3. Appearance and development of human rights instruments; 4. National instruments: the Constitutions; 5. International instruments: conventions and non-statutory instruments;
Chapter II. The influence of human rights in the codification of private international law
1. Expert writing; 2. Regional examples; 3. Interaction between private international law and public international Law; 4. Interaction between national and international law regarding the protection of human rights and the content of public policy; 5. Hierarchy of human rights treaties in the legal system of a State; 6. The scope of application of human rights Conventions; 7. Interpretation of human rights treaties; 8. Conflict-of-laws rules and their compatibility with fundamental rights;
Chapter III. Human rights as a source of content for public policy in private international law
1. Neutrality and values in private international law; 2. Classifications of human rights; 3. Human rights as a source of content of public policy; 4. The human rights Conventions, uniformity and coherence; 5. Exclusion of the law of any State or only of States parties to the human rights Convention ?; 6. Permeability of private international law to human rights; 7. Fundamental rights and a “truly” international public policy;
Chapter IV. The incidence of human rights when determining public policy principles in international civil and family law matters
1. The role of the American Convention on Human Rights “Pact of San José, Costa Rica”, 22 November 1969, and other human rights instruments; 2. Right to a personality or legal capacity; 3. Right to dignity and private life; 4. Rights of the family;
Chapter V. The incidence of human rights when determining public policy principles in international procedural matters
1. Access to justice: a fundamental human right and a public policy principle to be guaranteed by private international law rules; 2. Right to a fair trial, due process and right to defence; 3. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments;
General conclusions; Bibliography.

Changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement et droit international, par R. BEN ACHOUR:

Excerpt of table of contents:

Introduction;
Première partie. Les changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement et le droit international universel: un droit embryonnaire;
Section 1. Evolution du cadre normatif en matière de refus des changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement;
Paragraphe 1. De l’indifférence du droit international classique au système politique des Etats;
Paragraphe 2. Vers l’émergence d’un dispositif universel consacrant l’état de droit et la démocratie;
Section 2. Les mécanismes de répression des changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement;
Paragraphe 1. Le dépassement du principe de l’autonomie constitutionnelle et la naissance de la légitimité démocratique;
Paragraphe 2. Evolution du principe: vers la reconnaissance du libre choix par le peuple de son système politique;
Section 1. Le cadre normatif contraignant des organisations internationals regionals;
Paragraphe 1. Les continents les plus marqués par les changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement;
Paragraphe 2. La condamnation des changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement dans d’autres organisations régionales;
Section 2. Les réactions dynamiques des organisations régionales face aux changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement (CAG);
Paragraphe 1. L’action de l’Organisation des Etats américains devant les changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement: le cas d’Haïti;
Paragraphe 2. Les réactions vigoureuses de deux organisations du continent africain: l’Union africaine et la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest;
Paragraphe 3. L’action répressive du Commonwealth devant les changements anticonstitutionnels de gouvernement;
Conclusion; Bibliographie.

Über Autor(innen)

Co-publication with: The Hague Academy of International Law.

Alan Vaughan Lowe, QC, born in 1952, nationality British.
LLB (Wales) (1973); Maxwell Prize (1973); LLM (Wales) (1978); PhD (Wales) (1980); MA (Cambridge) (1991); MA (Oxford) (1999).
Practising Barrister, Essex Court Chambers, London (mainly in the field of international law).
Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Barrister (Gray’s Inn) (1993); Queen’s Counsel (2008); Bencher (Gray’s Inn) (2008); Associé (2005), Membre (2013), Institut de droit international; Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford (1999-2012); University Lecturer in Law, then Reader in International Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and sometime Dean of Corpus Christi College (1988-1999); Warden of Leckhampton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1998-1999); Lecturer in Law (1979-1986), then Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester (1986-1988); Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, Cardiff (1973-1979); Visiting Professor: Duke Law School (Fall 1990); Tulane Law School (Summer 2000).
Advisory work for various Governments, multinational corporations, and international organizations, mainly on questions of international law. Advocacy in various published and unpublished cases in English courts, the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,ad hoc arbitral tribunals, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, UN Compensation Commission, and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (Japan, 2008); Cavaler, Ordinul National Serviciul Credincios (Knight of the Faithful Service National Order) (Romania, 2009); Darjah Paduka Seri Laila Jasa Yang Amat Berjasa (Darjah Ke-Dua) (Brunei, 2010).

Katharina Boele-Woelki, born in 1956, in Baden-Baden.
Dean of Bucerius Law School, the first private law school in Germany, where she also serves as the Claussen Simon Foundation Professor of Comparative Law. An extraordinary Professor for Legal Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Professor of Private International Law, Comparative Law and Family Law at Utrecht University, Netherlands (until September 2015). Established, in 2001, the Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) and, in 2007, the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF).
Member and board member of various professional associations and institutions, such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. Serves on editorial boards for Global, European and South African law journals, book series and open access platforms.
Elected (in 2014) president of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Taught at The Hague Academy of International Law (in 2009) and was awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala, Lausanne and Antwerp, as well as the Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Elected (in 2016) member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law and member of the Academia Europea.

María Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1 November 1951.
Studied Law at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay (1970-1977) (Attorney, 1974, and Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, 1977); Professor of Private International Law at the University of the Republic, School of Law.
Teaching and research activities (since 1984); Member of the Uruguayan Institute of Private International Law (since 1984); Professor of Private International Law at the Catholic University of Uruguay, School of Law. Teaching and research activities (since 1994); Academic Secretary of the Uruguayan Institute of Private International Law, University of the Republic (since 2010); Director of the International Law Department at the Catholic University of Uruguay (since 2014); Visiting Professor at several universities in various countries; lecturer in several conferences and seminars in various countries; research Fulbright scholarship, University of California at Davis (1988); research scholarship at UNIDROIT
(1998).
Member of the Uruguayan delegation to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (Montevideo, 1989; Mexico, 1994; Washington, 2002); Member of the Uruguayan delegation to the Technical Commission of the MERCOSUR Justice Ministries (1997-2002); Delegate of Uruguay and of the Inter-American Children’s Institute at several Special Commissions of the Hague Conference of Private International Law (2002-2006); Member of the Working Group in charge of the drafting of the Uruguayan General Act on Private International Law; legal consultant; member of several Academic Institutions – national and international – and of the Editorial Boards of several Law Reviews.

Rafâa Ben Achour, né le 6 septembre 1952 à La Marsa (Tunisie).
Licencié en droit public en 1977; diplômé d’études supérieures en droit public (1978); diplômé d’études supérieures en sciences politiques (1979); docteur d’Etat en droit, Université de Tunis 1 (1984); agrégé de droit public et sciences politiques (1987). Rédacteur à la Banque nationale de Tunisie (1977); assistant délégué à la faculté de droit de Tunis (1979); assistant (1979); maître assistant (1985); maître de conférences agrégé (1987); professeur de l’enseignement supérieur (1991); professeur de droit international à l’Université du Roi Saoud en Arabie saoudite (2005-2007); professeur émérite (2014).
A enseigné le droit constitutionnel, les institutions internationales, les libertés publiques et les droits de l’homme, la sociologie politique, le droit international public, le contentieux international. Cours à l’Institut supérieur international des sciences criminelles (Syracuse); à l’UNITAR (La Haye); au Centre international Bancaja pour la paix et le développement (Cours euroméditerranéen de DI, Castellón); à l’Académie internationale de droit constitutionnel (Tunis); à l’Institut de droit international public et de relations internationales de l’Université Aristote de Thessalonique (Grèce); à l’Institut international des droits de l’homme (Strasbourg).
Directeur de l’unité de recherche en droit public international, juridictions internationales et droit constitutionnel comparé; directeur du département de droit public (1987-1989); secrétaire général de l’Académie internationale de droit constitutionnel (1988 à 1998); recteur de l’Université de Tunis des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine (1997 à décembre 2000); conseiller municipal adjoint au maire de la ville de La Marsa (1990-1998); secrétaire d’Etat auprès du ministre de l’Education chargé de l’innovation pédagogique (janvier 2001 à septembre 2002), ministre délégué auprès du Premier ministre (mars-septembre 2011) et ambassadeur de Tunisie au Maroc (septembre 2011-juillet 2012); conseiller spécial du président de la République (janvier-avril 2015) Expert juriste auprès de la Ligue des Etats arabes (1980-1989) et auprès de l’Union africaine (2009); membre de la Commission de l’Union africaine sur le droit international (2010), réélu en 2013; membre suppléant à la Commission européenne pour la démocratie par le droit (Commission de Venise) (2011-2013); juge à la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples (depuis 2014).
Professeur invité des universités de Lyon III, Rennes, Toulouse, Montpellier, Paris I, Bordeaux, Aix-Marseille III, Sceaux, Angers; Rome, Pérouse, Padoue Ca, Foscari; Barcelone, Huelva; Athènes. Membre du Conseil de l’Université des Nations Unies de 2001 à 2007 et vicerecteur de cette université de 2006 à 2007.
Membre actif dans plusieurs associations et ONG: Association des études internationales, Association tunisienne de droit constitutionnel, Association tunisienne pour les Nations Unies, Association tunisienne de droit international et de droit constitutionnel comparé, Société française pour le droit international.
Secrétaire général; vice-président de l’association omnisports Club africain de Tunis (1986-2000); membre du comité de recours sportif, membre du tribunal sportif (2011).
Membre de la Commission nationale sur le droit de la mer; membre de la délégation tunisienne pour la délimitation des espaces maritimes avec l’Algérie, l’Italie et la Libye.
Grand officier de l’ordre national du mérite tunisien (secteur de l’éducation et des sciences); Commandeur de l’Ordre de la République (Tunisie); Grand officier de l’Ordre alaouite (Maroc); Commandeur de l’ordre national du Mérite français.