Nineteenth century perspectives on private international law /
How has the early development of private international law affected contemporary practice? Through a broad contextual and historical analysis, Roxana Banu offers new interpretations of nineteenth century canonical writings in private international law, while also resurfacing crucial forgotten and ma...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | History and theory of international law.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on Private International Law; Copyright; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; A. The Fault of History; B. The State, the Individual, and the Relationships; C. History and Theory; 1. The devil is in the details: refocusing PrIL historiography; 2. Texts and contexts; 3. Dialogues as entry points; 4. International themes within an international dialogue; 5. Time, people, places; 6. The dialogue between past and present; 2. Individual- and State-Centered Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Private International Law; A. Introduction
- B. The First Two Giants of the Nineteenth Century1. Joseph Story; 2. Friedrich Karl von Savigny; C. Conflicts of Laws as Conflicts of Sovereignty; 1. Pasquale Mancini; 2. Antoine Pillet and Ernst Zitelmann; D. Josephus Jitta; E. Conclusions; 3. Individual- and State-Centered Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Europe; A. Introduction; B. Savigny's Legacy; 1. The international community of states; 2. The seat of the legal relation; C. The Debate Among Universalists; D. Universalism Versus Particularism; E. Sovereignty and Vested Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century English PrIL Scholarship
- F. Conclusions4. Tracing the Relational Internationalist Perspective in Europe After the Second World War; A. Introduction; B. The Various Facets of Nationalism; C. The Post-War Critique of Nationalism; D. Continental European Philosophical Debates in PrIL After the Second World War; 1. Henri Batiffol; 2. Gerhard Kegel; E. English PrIL Theory After the Second World War; 1. R.H. Graveson-Judicial justice and vested rights; 2. B.A. Wortley-The concept and the rights of man; 3. F.A. Mann-Uniting PrIL and PublIL through the concept of international jurisdiction
- F. Critique of the "Tendence Privatiste"1. Phocion Franceskakis; 2. Duco Kollewijn; a) Colonial law; b) Recasting Jitta's reconstruction of Savigny's theory; G. Conclusions; 5. Individual-Centered and State-Centered Internationalist Perspectives in American Private International Law Theory; A. Introduction; B. Beale's Vested Rights Theory; 1. Law and rights; 2. Legislative jurisdiction and the move to PublIL; C. The Realist School-Cook and Lorenzen; 1. The critique of Beale's theory; 2. Critique against sovereignty, territoriality, and Story; D. Brainerd Currie; 1. David Cavers
- 2. Cavers-Currie correspondenceE. Individual-Centered Arguments Against Currie; 1. Fairness over comity; 2. Equity; 3. Disaggregating state interests; F. Conclusions; 6. Recognition, Rights, and Reasonable Expectations; A. Introduction; B. Breaking the Alleged Unity of the Vested Rights Theories to Make Space for Recognition; C. Individualistic Vested Rights Theories; 1. Friedrich Tittmann; 2. Friedrich Eichhorn; 3. Georg Friedrich Puchta; D. The State-Centered Internationalist Perspective; 1. Rights of states; 2. Empty rights?; 3. Ethics, morality, and law