Principles of the conflict of laws national and internationalPDF电子书下载

Part Ⅰ. The nature and function of Private International Law 1

Section 1. Introduction 1

Section 2. Rome and beyond 3

Section 3. The period after the division of the Roman Empire—personality of laws 3

Section 4. Feudalism and the revival of Roman Law 4

Section 5. Feudalism 4

Section 6. Italy—the Legists 5

Section 7. The doctrine of the Statutists 7

Section 8. The French school in the 16th Century—Dumoulin and D'Argentre 12

Section 9. The Dutch school—Comity 13

Section 10. The subsequent development of the doctrine of Huber—England 17

Section 11. The United States 19

Section 12. Modern Private International Law—Wachter, Savigny 20

Section 13. Modern doctrines of territoriality or pseudo-territoriality—acquired rights 23

Section 14. Sociological neo-statutists 28

Section15. Wachter redivivus—Ehrenzweig 30

Section16. Conflict of laws and the American Constitution 32

Section 17. Governmental interests as conflict resolving factors—Currie—Neo-statutists 36

Section18. "Result selecting" principles—Cavers 39

Section19. The international use of the new doctrines 41

Section 20. Conclusions 44

Notes to part Ⅰ 46

Part Ⅱ. The relationship between Public and Private International Law 63

Section 21. The influence of Public International Law upon domestic Private International Law 63

Section 22. Private International Law as part of Public International Law—choice of law before international tribunals 67

Section 23. Recognition and the application of foreign law 74

Section 24. Scrutiny of, and refusal to apply, the law and to respect the executive acts of a foreign recognized government 77

Section 25. Conclusions 80

Notes to part Ⅱ 81

Part Ⅲ. The structure and interpretation of rules of Private International Law 93

Section 26. Structure 93

Section 27. Interpretation 94

Section 28. Spatially conditioned internal rules 99

Section 29. Transposition, substitution and adaptation 102

Section 30. Renvoi 104

Section 31. Preliminary question 107

Section 32. Conflict of laws in time 113

Notes to part Ⅲ 115

Part Ⅳ. Conclusions 125

Bibliography 127

Table of cases 129

Index 139