Class Private International Law

In the words of Professor Ferrer Correia, private international law (PIL) seeks to formulate the principles and rules leading to the determination of the applicable law or laws to issues arising from international legal-private relations and to ensure recognition, in the forum State, of purely domestic legal situations of questions within the scope of a single foreign law system. Due to the globalized world and the increasing mobility of people and capital, is extremely important to study and to understand IPL in order to pursue legal professions, namely judiciary, advocacy, public registrars and notary. Although the determination of the applicable law concerns legal-private relations, due to the multiplicity of sources of IPL, constitutional law, public international law and European Union Law are also used to solve problems of this legal discipline.

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Introduction Notion, function and purpose of Private International Law Historic development and the current importance of Private International Law Nature of Private International Law Private International Law and related legal subjects Sources of Private International Law The Private International legal relation The principles of Private International Law Conflict of laws: the conflict rule The object of the conflict rule Structural elements of the conflict rule The function of the conflict rule The reference practiced by the conflict rule Conflict of laws: the system of conflict rules in force Personal Law, States with more than one legal system Individuals Legal Persons Family relations Succession  Contractual and non-contractual obligations Property law Intellectual property rights Law of foreigners  Conflict of laws: the interpretation and the application of the conflict rules Renvoi Qualification Overriding mandatory provisions Fraud against law International public order Status of foreign law 

Studing real cases by using the technological material available in the class room and testimonials from guest speakers. From these real cases, students have to work on a problem based on the real case. Writing a text based on the knowledge acquired in previous classes.

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