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Recent Developments in Private International Law in the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren
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The Charter of the Organization of American States, approved in 1948, assigned to the Inter-American Council of Jurists, among other functions, the task of promoting ‘the development and the codification of international law’ (Article 67). Therefore, on September 6, 1949, the Inter-American Juridical Committee, which was the Permanent Commission of the Council (Article 68), presented a Report that favoured the revision of the Bustamante Code, taking into account the Montevideo Treaties and the American Restatement of Conflict of Laws.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , August 1992 , pp. 229 - 241
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1992

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4. Four years later the Second Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-II) was held in Montevideo (Uruguay), and on May 8,1979, the following Conventions were signed: (a) Inter-American Convention on Extraterritorial Validity of Foreign Judgements and Arbitral Awards; (b) Inter-American Convention on Execution of Preventive Measures; (c) Inter-American Convention on Proof of and Information of Foreign Law; (d) Additional Protocol to the Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory; (e) Inter-American Convention on Conflict of Laws concerning Checks; (f) Liter-American Convention on Domicile of Natural Persons in Private International Law; and (h) Inter-American Convention on General Rules of Private International Law. See Parra-Aranguren, , loc. cit. n. 3, pp. 128–157.Google Scholar

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