The Public Face of Private International Law: Prospects for a Convention on Foreign State Immunity

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Joan E. Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Foreign State

scholarly journals Mechanism of Application of the Public Policy Clause as a Ground for Limitation of the Application of Foreign Law in Private International Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Mykhailo LATYNSKYI
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Interconnected System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Ordre Public

The article analyzes the essence and peculiarities of the implementation in practice of the mechanism of application of the public policy clause (ordre public) as a basis for limiting the effect of foreign law in private international law. The author argues that the introduction of a unified mechanism for the application of the public policy clause as a basis for restricting the effect of foreign law is in the interests of both the international community and individual states. The sources for determining the constituent elements of the mechanism are regulations (international and national) and judicial (arbitration) practice. Based on their study, it is summarized that the mechanism of application of the public policy clause is a complex legal remedy, the proper functioning of which is impossible without the jurisdiction to take preliminary action to invoke the conflict of laws the first sends to. It is established that the basis for the application of the public policy clause in order to limit the effect of foreign law in the country of the court is a violation of public policy. Discussions arise about the normative consolidation and the peculiarities of establishing conditions in law enforcement activities, the existence of which allows the jurisdictional body to apply such reservations. These conditions, although they may be considered in isolation, function as a whole, forming an interconnected system of restrictions and principles designed to ensure that the court complies with the minimum substantive and formal requirements for the application of the public policy clause. The conditions for applying the reservation in cases of exclusion or restriction of foreign law traditionally include: 1) contradiction of public policycannot be stated by the court on the basis of inconsistency or difference of foreign law from the provisions of public policy; 2) the incompatibility of the mentioned consequences must be, on the one hand, obvious and, on the other hand, sufficiently and consistently substantiated by a court or arbitration tribunal; 3) the difference between the legal, political or economic systems of the relevant foreign state from the systems of the court state cannot serve as a justification for refusing to apply the law of a foreign state.

COLLODIZING LINKS IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Н.Д. Эриашвили ◽  
Г.М. Сарбаев ◽  
В.И. Федулов
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Russian Federation

В представленной статье рассмотрены проблемы коллодирующих привязок в международном частном праве и особенности их правовой регламентации в законодательстве Российской Федерации. Автором проанализированы особенности нормативного закрепления данного типа привязок в системе международных договоров, а также механизм имплементации этих норм в национальном законодательстве различных государств. На основе сложившейся практики применения коллодирующих привязок национальными органами государственной власти обоснована необходимость учета публичных интересов государства в данных правоотношениях. The present article examines the problems of collodizing links in private international law and the peculiarities of their legal regulation in the legislation of the Russian Federation. The author analyzed the peculiarities of this type of binding in the system of international treaties, as well as the mechanism for implementing these norms in the national legislation of various states. On the basis of the established practice of applying collodial links by national authorities, the need to take into account the public interests of the State in these legal relations is justified.

Mosul Four and Iran Six

2018 ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
Alex Mills
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the practical entanglement of questions of public and private international law through an examination of the history of ten commercial aircraft belonging to Kuwait Airways Corporation. The aircraft were seized by Iraq after the unlawful 1990 invasion of Kuwait, flown to Baghdad, and handed over to Iraqi Airways. Proceedings seeking return of the aircraft and damages were commenced by Kuwait Airways against Iraqi Airways in the English courts, a further saga which led to more than thirty reported cases, including a remarkable five decisions of the House of Lords. The dispute raised a range of issues, including questions of jurisdiction, state immunity, and perhaps most significantly the potential for public international law to be given effect through domestic private law proceedings, in this case as a source of public policy denying effect to acts of Iraqi law which were contrary to UN Security Council resolutions.

United in Diversity – Regional Unification of the Conflict-of-law Rules in Matters of Matrimonial Property Regimes

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-178
Author(s):  
Lucie Zavadilová
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Part ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
Property Regimes ◽  
Conflict Of Law

The unification of the conflict-of-law rules in matters of matrimonial property regimes at EU level seeks to mitigate differences in substantive law in particular legal systems. The aim of this contribution is to analyse the doctrine of overriding mandatory provisions and consider the applicability of the public policy exception, which limit the application of the law otherwise applicable determined in compliance with the unified conflict-of-law rules. The question author addresses in this paper is whether these institutes of the general part of private international law provide for sufficient safeguards to protect the fundamental values and public interests of the forum law in matters of matrimonial property regimes.

Part III The Current International Law of State Immunity, 16 State Immunity from Enforcement: General Aspects

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fox Hazel ◽  
Webb Philippa
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Commercial Property ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
National Courts ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
State Practice ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
State Territory

This chapter provides a general survey of State practice and an analysis of the elements involved in immunity from enforcement as provided by UNCSI in its Part IV on State Immunity from Measures of Constraint. State immunity continues to bar to a very large extent the enforcement of judgments given by national courts against foreign States. Again and again thwarted judgment creditors have sought to attach assets of foreign States within the forum State territory, only to be refused orders for execution by national courts. Nonetheless, change is taking place, with a number of national courts, applying the now widely recognized exception to enforcement in respect of commercial property in commercial use, seeking additional ways to render enforcement immunity less absolute in respect of the adjudicated liabilities of the foreign State.

Part III The Current International Law of State Immunity, 14 Immunity from Adjudication: The Employment Exception in respect of (1) A Foreign State and (2) An International Organization

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fox Hazel ◽  
Webb Philippa
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
National Courts ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
Standard Terms ◽  
Sick Pay

This chapter examines the exception for employment as it pertains to States and international organizations. Whilst the employment — its terms for performance, remuneration, including sick pay, overtime, and other benefits, notice and procedures for dismissal or termination — may be provided in an individual contract or imported from standard terms of employment or collective bargaining agreements, there may also be a considerable overlay of statutory or mandatory provisions that the national labour law imposes or in respect of which increasingly the forum State has assumed regional or international law obligations. There are also certain generally accepted practices relating to employment to be taken into account in considering the scope of the immunity of a foreign State and international organization as regards employment claims brought before the national courts of another State.

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction at a Crossroads: An Intersection Between Public and Private International Law

1982 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold G. Maier
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nation States ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction ◽  
International Systems

Historically, public international law and private international law have been treated as two different legal systems that function more or less independently. Public international law regulates activity among human beings operating in groups called, nation-states, while private international law regulates the activities of smaller subgroups or of individuals as they interact with each other. Since the public international legal system coordinates the interaction of collective human interests through decentralized mechanisms and private international law coordinates the interaction of individual or subgroup interests primarily through centralized mechanisms, these coordinating functions are usually carried out in different forums, each appropriate to the task. The differences between the processes by which sanctions for violation of community norms are applied in the two systems and the differences in the nature of the units making up the communities that establish those norms tend to obscure the fact that both the public and the private international systems coordinate human behavior, and that thus the values that inform both systems must necessarily be the same.

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