REVUE : Recueil des cours de l'Académie de droit international (vol. 384, 2017)

Symeon C. SYMEONIDES

Volume 384 of the Recueil des cours, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law is out.

IDEALISM, PRAGMATISM, ECLECTICISM, GENERAL COURSE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
Symeon C. SYMEONIDES

Introduction 

Chapter I. Historical foundations

Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. From ancient Greece to medieval Italy
Section 3. Early footings: Bartolus, statutists, and unilateralism
Section 4. Huber’s comity
Section 5. The nineteenth century: the classical PIL edifice
Section 6. The twentieth century
Section 7. Summary: the classical PIL system

Chapter II. Substantivist carve-outs

Section 1. The original substantivist method
Section 2. Contemporary substantivist carve-outs
Section 3. Summary

Chapter III. The “international” in private international law

Section 1. What’s in a name?
Section 2. Internationality
Section 3. International uniformity
Section 4. Interstate uniformity
Section 5. Conclusions

Chapter IV. The “private” in private international law 

Section 1. Introduction: private or public law?
Section 2. Brainerd Currie and state interests
Section 3. Not “only in America”: recognition of state interests elsewhere
Section 4. Conclusions

Chapter V. Unilateralist encroachments

Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. The resilience of unilateralism
Section 3. Unilateralism in academic doctrine
Section 4. Not “only in America”: the ubiquity of unilateralism
Section 5. Symbiosis

Chapter VI. The material tempering of conflicts justice

Section 1. The question
Section 2. The orthodox answer: “conflicts justice”
Section 3. The heretical answer: “material justice”
Section 4. Covert result selectivism in the courts
Section 5. Overt result selectivism in legislation
Section 6. Conclusions

Chapter VII. The softening of concepts and rules

Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. The virtual abandonment of connecting factors in the United States
Section 3. Not “only in America”: the softening of connecting factors in recent codifications
Section 4. Escape clauses
Section 5. The movement toward flexibility
Section 6. Conclusions

Chapter VIII. The narrowing of legal categories

Section 1. The classical PIL model: “legal relations”
Section 2. American developments
Section 3. Not “only in America” : dépeçage in codified PIL systems
Section 4. Dépeçage in the Rome Convention and the Rome Regulations
Section 5. Dépeçage in other modern codifications
Section 6. Conclusions

Chapter IX. From idealism to pragmatism and eclecticism

Section 1. The classical PIL
Section 2. Contemporary PIL
Section 3. Not “only in America”
Section 4. Evolution, pragmatism, and eclecticism
Section 5. Conclusion

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