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Private International Law and Public law

Edited by: Horatia Muir Watt

ISBN13: 9781782547792
Published: November 2015
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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The conspicuous absence of private international law from the current global governance debate may be traced in part to its traditional “public law taboo”, fed by liberal understandings of statehood and its characteristic public/private divide, in the context of the modern schism between the public and private branches of international law. Alongside an original introduction, the materials assembled in this important collection are of immediate interest to both public and private international lawyers, and more broadly to all those interested in new forms of global governance and the theory of law beyond the state.

Subjects:
Conflict of Laws
Contents:
Volume I

Introduction
Horatia Muir Watt

PART I PRELIMINARY ISSUES
A. What is Meant by “Public” or “Private” Law?
1. Ralf Michaels and Nils Jansen (2006), ‘Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization’, American Journal of Comparative Law, 54 (4), Fall, 843–90
2. Joel R. Paul (1988–1989), ‘The Isolation of Private International Law’, Wisconsin International Law Journal, 7 (1), 149–78
B. The Private History of State and Sovereignty
3. Hersch Lauterpacht (1975), ‘Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law’, in Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (ed.), International Law: Being the Collected Papers of Hersch Lauterpacht – Volume II: The Law of Peace, Chapter 8, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 173–212
4. Morris R. Cohen (1927–1928), ‘Property and Sovereignty’, Cornell Law Quarterly, 13 (1), 8–30
5. Martti Koskenniemi (2011), ‘Empire and International Law: The Real Spanish Contribution’, University of Toronto Law Journal, 61 (1), 1–36
6. Alex Mills (2006), ‘The Private History of International Law’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 55 (1), January, 1–49
7. Duncan Kennedy (2006), ‘Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850–2000’, in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos (eds), The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal, Chapter 2, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 19–73

PART II THE LIBERAL IDEAL
A. The Separatist Paradigm: Public-Private / Political-Legal / Power-Technique
8. Gerhard Kegel (1989), ‘Story and Savigny’, American Journal of Comparative Law, 37 (1), Winter, 39–66
9. Ralf Michaels (2007), ‘Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny’s Private International Law and the Challenge from Europeanization and Globalization’, in Michael Stolleis and Wolfgang Streeck (eds), Aktuelle Fragen zu politischer und rechtlicher Steuerung im Kontext der Globalisierung, Berlin, Germany: Nomos Publishers, 119–44
10. Gerhard Kegel (1964), ‘Critique’, The Crisis of Conflict of Laws: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 112, Part I, Chapter XII, Leiden: The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 180–207
11. Symeon C. Symeonides (2005), ‘Accommodative Unilateralism as a Starting Premise in Choice of Law’, in Hans-Eric Rasmussen-Bonne, Richard Freer and Wolfgang Lüke (eds), Balancing of Interests: Liber Amicorum Peter Hay, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Recht und Wirtschaft GmbH, 417–34
B. Foreign Public Law Claims: The Prerogative Rights of Foreign States
12. Institut De Droit International (1993), ‘The Activities of National Judges and the International Relations of their State’, Session of Milan, 1–3
13. Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Adrian Briggs, Andrew Dickinson, Jonathan Harris, J.D. McClean, Peter McEleavy, Campbell McLachlan and C.G.J. Morse (2012), ‘Jurisdictional Immunities’, Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws, Fifteenth Edition, Chapter 10, London, UK: Sweet and Maxwell, 337–70
14. F.A. Mann (1971), ‘The Relationship Between the Conflict of Laws and Foreign Public Law’, in Conflict of Laws and Public Law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 132, Part 2, Leiden: The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 145–96
15. Lawrence Collins (2007), ‘Public Law Claims’, in Revolution and Restitution: Foreign States in National Courts: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 326, Chapter VI, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 58–64
16. Hans W. Baade (1995), ‘The Operation of Foreign Public Law’, Texas International Law Journal, 30 (3), Summer, 429–98
C. Comity and Private Ordering
17. Arthur Nussbaum (1942), ‘Rise and Decline of the Law-of-Nations Doctrine in the Conflict of Laws’, Columbia Law Review, XLII (2), February 189–206
18. Joel R. Paul (1991), ‘Comity in International Law’, Harvard International Law Journal, 32 (1), Winter, 1–79
19. Adrian Briggs (2012), ‘The Classification of Comity: Sources, Types, and Problems’, in The Principle of Comity in Private International Law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 354, Chapter 1, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 77–94

PART III THE RISE OF THE REGULATORY STATE
A.The Decline of the Public / Private Divide
20. Duncan Kennedy (1982), ‘The Stages of the Decline of the Public/Private Distinction’, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 130 (6), June, 1349–57
21. Symeon C. Symeonides (2002), ‘The American Conflicts Revolution: A Macro View’, in The American Choice-of-Law Revolution in the Courts: Today and Tomorrow: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 298, Chapter IX, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 357–416
B. Market Regulation and Public Law Exceptions
22. William S. Dodge (2002), ‘Breaking the Public Law Taboo’, Harvard International Law Journal, 43 (1), Winter, 161–235
23. Andreas F. Lowenfeld (1996), ‘The Search for a Unifying Principle’, in International Litigation and the Quest for Reasonableness: Essays in Private International Law, Chapter 10, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 228–31
24. Trevor C. Hartley (1997), ‘Theories’, in Mandatory Rules in International Contracts: The Common Law Approach: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 266, Chapter II, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 350–65
25. Harold Hongju Koh (1996), ‘The American Law of Foreign Sovereignty, I: The Extraterritoriality Problem’, in International Business Transactions in United States Courts: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 261, Chapter II, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 41–75
C. Conflicts of Regulatory Laws
26. Hannah L. Buxbaum (2006), ‘Transnational Regulatory Litigation’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 46 (2), Winter, 251–317
D. Cross-Border Cooperation
27. Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch and Richard B. Stewart (2005), ‘The Emergence of Global Administrative Law’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 68 (3/4), Summer/Autumn, 15–62

Index

Volume II

An Introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I

PART I THE PRIVATISATION OF GLOBAL (PUBLIC) COMMONS
A. Redefining the Public and the Private Beyond the State
1. Paul Schiff Berman (2005), ‘From International Law to Law and Globalization’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 43 (2), 485–556
2. Paul Schiff Berman (2002), ‘The Globalization of Jurisdiction’, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 151 (2), December, 311–545
B. The Sirens of Private Ordering
3. Robert Wai (2002), ‘Transnational Liftoff and Juridical Touchdown: The Regulatory Function of Private International Law in an Era of Globalization’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 40 (2), 209–74
4. Horatia Muir Watt (2010), ‘“Party Autonomy” in International Contracts: From the Makings of a Myth to the Requirements of Global Governance’, European Review of Contract Law, 6 (3), September, 250–83
5. Jens Dammann and Henry Hansmann (2008), ‘Globalizing Commercial Litigation’, Cornell Law Review, 94 (1), 1–71
C.The Pull of Law and Economics
6. Andrew T. Guzman (2002), ‘Choice of Law: New Foundations’, Georgetown Law Journal, 90 (4), April, 883–940
7. Ralf Michaels (2008), ‘Economics of Law as Choice of Law’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 71 (3), Summer, 73–105
D. Private Arbitration and Public Good
8. Amr A. Shalakany (2000), ‘Arbitration and the Third World: A Plea for Reassessing Bias Under the Specter of Neoliberalism’, Harvard International Law Journal, 41 (2), Spring, 419–68
9. Alex Mills (2011), ‘Antinomies of Public and Private at the Foundations of International Investment Law and Arbitration’, Journal of International Economic Law, 14 (2), June, 469–503
E. The Normative Role of Transnational Private Actors
10. Jacco Bomhoff and Anne Meuwese (2011), ‘The Meta-regulation of Transnational Private Regulation’, Journal of Law and Society, 38 (1), March, 138–62

PART II PUBLICISATION THROUGH CONSTITUTIONALISATION
A. Fundamental Rights
11. Jacco Bomhoff (2008), ‘The Reach of Rights: “The Foreign” and “The Private” in Conflict-of-Laws, State-Action, and Fundamental-Rights Cases with Foreign Elements, Law and Contemporary Problems, 71 (3), Summer, 39–71
B. Global Federalism?
12. Alex Mills (2009), ‘The Confluence of Public and Private International Law’, in The Confluence of Public and Private International Law, Chapter 5, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 211–97
B. Foreign Relations Law?
13. Campbell McLachlan (2012), ‘The Allocative Function of Foreign Relations Law’, British Yearbook of International Law, 82 (1), 349–80

PART III THE CURRENT MIX BEYOND THE SCHISM?
14. Ralf Michaels (2008), ‘Public and Private International Law: German Views on Global Issues’, Journal of Private International Law, 4 (1), April, 121–38
15. Peter D. Trooboff, Peter H. Pfund, Russell J. Weintraub, Andreas Bucher and R. Lea Brilmayer (1992), ‘The Increasing Focus of Public International Law on Private Law Issues: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting’, American Society of International Law, 86, April, 456–76
16. L. Reed (2003), ‘Theoretical Framework: Meeting Points Between Public and Private International Law’, in Mixed Private and Public International Law Solutions to International Crises: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 306, Chapter I, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 199–240
17. P. Mengozzi (2001), ‘Introduction’, in Private International Law and the WTO Law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law 292, Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 263–69
18. Horatia Muir Watt (2011), ‘Private International Law Beyond the Schism’, Transnational Legal Theory, 2 (3), 347–428

Index