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...

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Main Author: Banu, Roxana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:History and theory of international law.
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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