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1986 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Ben Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Royal Netherlands Academy

Part 2 National and Regional Reports, Part 2.5 Latin America: Coordinated by Lauro Gama and José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, 63 Paraguay: Paraguayan Perspectives on the Hague Principles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodríguez José Antonio Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Member State ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
State Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague

This chapter highlights Paraguayan perspectives on the Hague Principles. Paraguay does not have a law dealing comprehensively and organically with Private International Law. The Civil and Commercial Code of 1987 contains the basic regulation on conflict of laws, and other provisions on the field can be found scattered in several special laws dealing with specific matters. Paraguay adhered, as a Member State, to the Hague Conference on Private International Law via Law 2555 of 2005. It is the first country in the world to legislate on international contracts heavily influenced by the Hague Principles. The Paraguayan law on international contracts drawn upon the Hague Principles openly allows the application of non-State law, and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) Principles clearly qualify as such.

Hague Conventions on Private International Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-272
Author(s):  
V.C. Govindaraj
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Hague Convention ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
World Community ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Law

The world has to acknowledge the contribution the Hague Conference on Private International Law has hitherto made and continues to make in its endeavour to obtain from the world community approval and acceptance of the outcome of its efforts to unify rules of conflict of laws. India has become an active member of the Hague Conference. This chapter discusses the recognition of decrees of divorces and judicial separation and maintenance obligations; child custody and child abduction; the law relating to succession; the law relating to service of summons abroad; Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, 1961; and Hague Convention on Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, 1970.

Progress of the Work of the League of Nations Codification Committee

1927 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-667
Author(s):  
Jesse S. Reeves
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Preliminary Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Creation

With the adoption of a resolution by the Council of the League of Nations, transmitting the report of the Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law to the Assembly, what may be called the preliminary work of that Committee has reached such a stage that it seems possible to review its activities in the process of codification adopted by the League of Nations. It will be remembered that the Hague Commission of Jurists in its report accompanying the Statute of the World Court recommended the creation of agencies for codification, and that Lord Robert Cecil’s opposition to codification delayed acceptance of the Commission’s recommendation until September, 1924, when the Assembly upon the initiative of Sweden provided for the appointment of a committee of experts.

The Law of Nations and the Sources of the Cosmopolis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
International Law ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
John Selden

The Puritans’ cosmopolitan thought in late seventeenth-century New England had its source in the cosmopolitanism of a law of nations that was as much about the world as a whole as it was about the nation-state it later came to epitomize. With the nation-state not yet a consolidated entity, the seventeenth-century law of nations was far more open-ended than the international law to which it gave rise more than a century later. In the absence of a fixed idea of sovereignty, the law of nations was able to articulate multiple historical possibilities for social, political, and legal communities, one of which—the cosmopolitan—is fundamental. The cosmopolis emerges as a central part of the intellectual project of the law of nations put forth by the Protestant thinkers Alberico Gentili, Hugo Grotius, and John Selden, with the main features of the law recast as the building blocks of the cosmopolis.

International Law and Global Ideological Conflict: Reflections on the Universality of International Law

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Wilk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
New Challenges

If, after the nineteenth century, there remained any question concerning the universality of international law, or of its fundamental rules, it appeared to be largely one of legal history. But as the world of the twentieth century has come to be divided by political ideologies, their legal ramifications have given the question new actuality as one of basic legal theory. That the Family of Nations, or the subjects of international law, embraced virtually all states of the world seemed no longer open to serious doubt when non-Christian states wholly outside Europe took part in the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and when participation by such states was continued and further extended in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and in the League of Nations. Yet the same period that saw the unquestioned global expansion of international law has had to face new challenges to its unity as a single, universally valid legal system. They were raised chiefly by German Nazis and Soviet Communists, or in turn against them by their respective critics and opponents. Confronted with these challenges, the universal validity of international law appears no longer as an existingphenomenon that may be traced back to its origins and on to its eventual completion, but as a debatable assumption that stands to be justified or rejected in the light of fresh examination.

scholarly journals The Origin of the Hague Arbitral Courts

1914 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-801
Author(s):  
Denys P. Myers
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Clear Conception

The purpose of this study is the narration in detail of the responsible suggestions and action that resulted in erecting the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and in bringing into the realm of “practical” statesmanship the Court of Arbitral Justice, designed as a genuine tribunal instead merely of a panel of judges. The origin of these courts, which, even as they exist, are the greatest achievements in the institutionalizing of international law, is important because in some degree it demonstrates the processes by which international law grows and it registers to some extent the state of its legislative development. Everybody knows that you cannot bring a code of international law into effect by the process of introducing a bill in any legislature, but beyond that there is no agreement or even any very clear conception as to the processes of securing international institutions. A study of the origins of the two Hague courts of general jurisdiction furnishes some clue to the existing processes, and is the more interesting because most “practical” people denied their possibility so long as the constituent conventions were not actually in existence. The origins of these two courts, in so far as they reveal a principle, point to the conclusion that the idealism of the world can be wrought into effective machinery when the trained publicist takes hold of it and works it into forms harmonizing with existent conditions.

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