Acceso usuarios
Eleanor Cashin Ritaine
The application of foreign law by judges in private law cases is neither unusual nor recent. Nonetheless, legal theory has put forward many often contradicting reasons of why a national judge accepts to apply such foreign law. The main issue here is the value of the foreign legal norm within the national legal system. Is the national judge or authority compelled to apply the foreign legal norm in the same manner as his own law, and what are the means of controlling the application of the foreign legal norm by national judges or authorities before the national Suprem Court? This article highlights the procedural and material standing of foreign law before the Swiss courts and examines the limits of the application of foreign norms within the Swiss legal order, with a special emphasis on foreign law within arbitral proceedings.
