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3. International Law.
Professor Minor.
Under this title are included both public and private international law. In the
study of Public International Law, are investigated the various rules which regulate
the intercourse of nations; the origin, recognition and equality of states;
their rights in time of peace, and the means whereby they peaceably procure the
enjoyment of those rights; the laws of war and the rights and duties of belligerents;
and, finally, the rules governing the relations of neutral and belligerent
states.
Private International Law, or the Conflict of Laws, occupies the latter part of
this course. As the facility increases with which commerce and intercourse
between the states is conducted, this subject becomes of graver importance, though
as yet it has received rather scanty recognition at the hands of text-writers and
law schools.
The course includes a discussion of the nature and various kinds of domicil;
the law governing status, and the conveyance of personal property abroad; the
execution, construction and effect of foreign wills, successions and administrations,
of foreign marriages and divorces, and of transactions relating to real estate; the
execution, interpretation and validity of foreign contracts; the law governing the
effect of foreign judgments in rem or in personam, and the recovery of damages on
foreign torts; the application of the lex fori, and the modes of proving foreign
laws.—September 15 to December 23—Twice a week.
Text-Books.—Public International Law: Glenn.
Private International Law: (To be announced.)
The Professor's Notes.
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