Comparative Jurisprudence in the Development of International Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
A. O. Zernov ◽  
E. V. Voskresenskaya ◽  
K. P. Indyk

The article considers the importance of comparative jurisprudence for jurisprudence in general and for international law in particular. Comparative law has steadily entered the structure of the legal sciences, taking an important theoretical and methodological place. The methodological significance of comparative law is reflected in the development of legal sciences, including and especially international law. The theoretical significance of comparative law as a legal science lies in the terminological basis that comparative law provides for other comparative sciences and studies. The authors substantiate the relevance of comparative law as a scientific direction, which is due to the growing integration and cross-border trends in law caused by globalization, within which comparative law is designed to provide a methodological and theoretical basis.

Author(s):  
Larysa Udovyka

The article is devoted to the study of the formation of the theory of the legal system in legal science. The third stage in the development of the theory of law is characterized system, which begins at the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century. and continues to this day. t this stage, the interpenetration of ideas, provisions, conclusions about the development of the legal system within the legal sciences and areas that study the legal systems: the theory of state and law, comparative law, international law, philosophy of law is increasingly being traced. This stage is characterized by the search for answers to the question of approximation of the domestic legal system to European law; the mechanism of interaction between the national legal system and the EU legal system; features of systematization and unification of legislation at the stage of legal integration; directions of transformation and modernization of the legal system of Ukraine in the context of European integration and globalization, etc. The interpenetration of ideas and provisions largely reflects the objective process of strengthening and deepening the interaction of national and international legal systems, the inability to answer the vast majority of questions that arise in this regard, limited only to national or international law In recent years, the legal system of Ukraine, along with the traditional ones, has faced fundamentally new problems caused by external factors, including such as the establishment and consolidation of European foreign policy priorities, the search for effective legal means to counter threats to independence, national sovereignty, territorial integrity, territorial integrity, territorial integrity, energy threats, protection of citizens' rights violated as a result of annexation of Crimea, occupation in eastern Ukraine. Solving these and other problems is possible only through a comprehensive, systematic understanding, based on the achievements of the general theory of law, comparative law, international law, philosophy of law with the use of new approaches and methods, that is, within the framework of the general (universal) theory of law. The peculiarities of the development of legal science at this stage at the present day raise the question of the need to form a universal (general) theory of law as a conceptual basis of the theories of national and international law.


Legal Concept ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
Emil Karakulyan

Introduction: interdisciplinarity comes in two forms: as a tool in relation to the subject of research and as a methodology of interdisciplinarity. The question of the need to develop a general theory of interdisciplinarity and the theoretical basis for its application in the science of international law is raised. Methods: historicism, system, analysis and comparative law. Results: an attempt to systematize the interdisciplinary methods and approaches, examples of interdisciplinarity in the development of new systemic and author’s approaches and terms within the framework of international legal studies. Conclusions: the essential connection between the issues of interdisciplinarity and the grounds of scientific novelty, which are important in terms of specific relationship between the theory of international law and its subject, is established.


This book opens a cross-regional dialogue and shifts the Eurocentric discussion on diversity and integration to a more inclusive engagement with South America in private international law issues. It promotes a contemporary vision of private international law as a discipline enabling legal interconnectivity, with the potential to transcend its disciplinary boundaries to further promote the reality of cross-border integration, with its focus on the ever-increasing cross-border mobility of individuals. Private international law embraces legal diversity and pluralism. Different legal traditions continue to meet, interact and integrate in different forms, at the national, regional and international levels. Different systems of substantive law couple with divergent systems of private international law (designed to accommodate the former in cross-border situations). This complex legal landscape impacts individuals and families in cross-border scenarios, and international commerce broadly conceived. Private international law methodologies and techniques offer means for the coordination of this constellation of legal orders and value systems in cross-border situations. Bringing together world-renowned academics and experienced private international lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions in Europe and South America, this edited collection focuses on the connective capabilities of private international law in bridging and balancing legal diversity as a corollary for the development of integration. The book provides in-depth analysis of the role of private international law in dealing with legal diversity across a diverse range of topics and jurisdictions.


Author(s):  
Gus Van Harten

Governments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties, and of the powerful system of ‘investor–state dispute settlement’ (ISDS) upon which they rest. It is therefore important to be clear about the crux of the problem. ISDS treaties are flawed fundamentally because they firmly institute wealth-based inequality under international law. That is, they use cross-border ownership of assets, mostly by multinationals and billionaires, as the gateway to extraordinary protections, while denying equivalent safeguards to those who lack the wealth required to qualify as foreign investors. The treaties thus have the main effect of safeguarding an awe-inspiring set of rights and privileges for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of countries and their populations. This book shows how ISDS came to explode in a global context of extreme concentration of wealth and of widespread poverty. The history of early ISDS treaties is highlighted to show their ties to decolonization and, sometimes, extreme violence and authoritarianism. Focusing on early ISDS lawsuits and rulings reveals how a small group of lawyers and arbitrators worked to create the legal foundations for massive growth of ISDS since 2000. ISDS-based protections are examined in detail to demonstrate how they give exceptional advantages to the wealthy. Examples are offered of how the protections have been used to reconfigure state decision making and shift sovereign minds in favour of foreign investors. Finally, the ongoing efforts of governments to reform ISDS are surveyed, with a call to go further or, even better, to withdraw from the treaties.


Author(s):  
V.C. Govindaraj

In deciding cases of private international law or conflict of laws, as it is widely known, judges of the Supreme Court in India generally consult the works of renowned English jurists like Dicey and Cheshire. This volume argues that our country should have its own system of resolving inter-territorial issues with cross-border implications. The author critically analyses cases covering areas such as the law of obligations, the law of persons, the law of property, foreign judgments, and foreign arbitral awards. The author provides his perspectives on the application of law in each case. The idea is to find out where the judges went wrong in deciding cases of private international law, so that corrective measures can be taken in future to resolve disputes involving complex, extra-territorial issues.


Author(s):  
Karen Knop

The two starting points for this chapter are that fields of law are inventions, and that fields matter as analytical frames. All legal systems deal with foreign relations issues, but few have a field of “foreign relations law.” As the best-stocked cabinet of issues and ideas, U.S. foreign relations law would be likely to generate the field elsewhere in the process of comparison. But some scholars, particularly outside the United States, see the nationalist or sovereigntist strains of the U.S. field, and perhaps even just its use as a template, as demoting international law. The chapter begins by asking whether this apprehension can be alleviated by using international law or an existing comparative law field to inventory the foreign relations issues to be compared. Finding neither sufficient, it turns to the U.S. field as an initial frame and sketches three types of anxieties that the U.S. experience has raised or might raise for international law. The chapter concludes by suggesting how Campbell McLachlan’s allocative conception of foreign relations law might be adapted so as to turn such anxieties about international law into opportunities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-696
Author(s):  
Alison Xu

AbstractThis article explores a solution to the choice-of-law issues concerning both voluntary and involuntary assignments arising in a domestic forum. The focus is on English private international law rules relating to cross-border assignments. A distinction is made between primary and extended parties as the foundation for choice-of-law analysis. Drawing on insights from the distinction of the use value and exchange value of debts found in economics, this article proposes a new analytical framework for choice-of-law based on a modified choice-of-law theory of interest-analysis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luzius Wildhaber

AbstractThis article is an expanded and footnoted version of the lectur given at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on Tuesday 21 March 2006, entitled ‘International Law in the European Court of Human Rights’.The article begins with some comparative comments on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in monistic and dualistic systems It then discusses in detail the European Court's case law which confirms that the Convention, despite its special character as a human rights treaty, is indeed part of public international law. It concludes that the Convention and international law find themselves in a kind of interactive mutual relationship. checking and buildine on each other.


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