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Responses to a Legally Fragmented World: A Private Law Perspective, General Course of Private International Law by Francisco Garcimartin
Two distinctive features of contemporary private international law are its methodological plurality and normative versatility. The methodological plurality entails a combination of techniques to deal with cross-border cases. The normative versality entails the use of these techniques for different and even conflicting policies. This course explores these characteristics and presents a series of arguments for critically addressing them. The general premise that underpins the entire course is the heuristic value of emphasizing its private law nature. Private international law is fundamentally private law, and the conceptual framework and principles of private law are essential for understanding, organizing, and rationalizing its analysis.
Practcing before the International Court of Justice: What I Learned since the Nicaragua Case, Inaugural Lecture by Paul Reichler
In this presentation, Mr. Reichler reflects on his practice litigating cases before the International Court of Justice since his first appearance before the Court in 1984 inNicaragua v. United States, and lessons learned during the past five decades about the Court itself, the unique and indispensable role it plays in the rules-based international legal order, and the special obligations on counsel who appear before it that extend beyond those to which counsel are accustomed when they litigate in national courts.
