Recent Developments in Private International Law in the Americas

Abstract

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.