This article investigates the concept of “comity”, discussed by Ulrich Huber (Dutch scholar of the XVIIth century). This author is the most typical representative of the Dutch theory of the conflict of law. Huber's writings primarily reflected the doctrine of comity, which is the basis of...

This article restores to academic circulation the names of representatives of the 16th century Belgian School of Realism, who have been unjustly forgotten in modern Private International Law [PIL] doctrine — Nicolas Everhard, Pieter Peck and Johannes à Sande. These scholars are the founders...