... sovereignty.2.2.3. The common law The English common law resisted the spread of Roman law whichfounded the civil law systems, and with it the ideas ofthe statutistson private international law. 53 The common ... further 5.6 below.257Cutler (1997)p.279. the private historyofinternationallaw 69development of private internationallaw theory. The idea of private international law as an expression of ... confluence ofpublic and private international law There are three reasons for the exploration ofthehistoryof private international law pursued in this Chapter. First, it reveals that the originsof...
... between the claim ofinternational law, asembodied in the Charter and in decisions oftheInternational Court, toregulate the use of force and the assertions of certain most powerfulStates, and of ... of many international lawyers to inves-tigate the role of non-legal power, some international lawyers have cer-tainly sought to defend the ‘relevance’ ofinternationallaw against realist international ... attempts to answer some of these questions, to reach beyond the confines ofthe discipline ofinternational law, and to do with the process of customary internationallaw what Henkin and SlaughterBurley...
... objectives, at theinternational level.joost pauwelyn is Associate Professor ofLaw at Duke UniversitySchool of Law. His areas of interest are publicinternationallaw and the lawofthe WTO. He ... 735.Conflict of Norms in PublicInternational Law How WTO Law Relates to other Rules ofInternational Law One ofthe most prominent and urgent problems in international governance is how the different ... ‘Diplomatic Law .48 conflict of norms in publicinternationallaw international law. Although the customary practices of GATT might meetsome ofthe requirements of custom, it is doubtful that they...