Henri Batiffol

Henri Batiffol (born February 16, 1905 in Paris , † 1989 ) was a French legal scholar .

Life

Batiffol was born in Paris on February 16, 1905. He grew up as the son of a historian in a Catholic environment. Despite the politically heated situation, his father encouraged him to learn the German language ("Il n'y a pas de travail scientifique sans connaissance de l'allemand"). He studied law and philosophy in Paris. He initially dealt scientifically with civil law and international private law . In 1929 he received his doctorate with the thesis La capacité de étrangers en France, Influence de la loi française under Julliot de la Morandière .

He taught from 1931, from 1935 as a professor, initially civil law at the University of Lille , from 1938 also international private law. In 1935/36 he did research on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship at Harvard University , Northwestern University , the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley in the USA, and in 1937 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Berlin. From 1947 to 1950 he was dean. In 1950 he returned to Paris, where he taught private international law and, from 1960, also legal philosophy. From 1951 he was a member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law .

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Batiffol initially focused on civil law and private international law. In 1929 he received his doctorate with the thesis La capacité des étrangers en France, Influence de la loi française under Julliot de la Morandière . He initially published on various private law topics. In 1938 a first major treatise on international private law was published (Les conflits de lois en matière de contrats, Etude de droit international privé comparé (1938)). In 1949 Batiffol's work Traité élémentaire de droit international privé was published for the first time , which is still the standard work par excellence in France and largely replaces the statutory regulation of international private law (which is missing in France). For its logical abstraction, taking into account the specific legal cases, it was largely received extremely positively.

From 1950 his interest was almost exclusively in conflict of laws and legal philosophy. In 1956 he published a legal philosophical work Aspects philosophiques du droit international privé, followed in 1960 in the series Que sais-je? La philosophie du droit. Batiffol is in his jurisprudential thinking Thomistic coined. Further influences on him go from Aristotle , Alfred Verdroß-Droßberg and Michel Villey .

He was editor of the revue critique de droit international privé .

Honors

• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• 1965: Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna
• 1965: Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne

Publications

• La capacité de étrangers en France, Influence de la loi française (1929).
• Les conflits de lois en matière de contrats, Etude de droit international privé comparé (1938).
• Traité élémentaire de droit international privé (1949). From the 5th edition together with Paul Lagarde in two volumes under the title Droit international privé.
• Aspects philosophiques du droit international privé (1956).
• La philosophie du droit (1960).
• Problèmes de base de philosophie de droit (1979).

literature

• Remiro Brotons: Henri Batiffol y la doctrina española de Derecho internacional privado . In: Revista Española de Derecho Internacional . 1985, ISSN  0034-9380 , p. 403-421 .
• Gerhard Kegel : Henri Batiffol on his 80th birthday on February 16, 1985 . In: Rabel's Journal for Foreign and International Private Law . tape 49 , 1985, pp. 168-171 .
• Jan Kropholler : Batiffol - Classic of Private International Law . In: Rabel's Journal for Foreign and International Private Law . tape 33 , 1969, p. 94-114 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Henri Batiffol in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief biography and photography of Henri Batiffol