[ L'autonomie de la volonté en droit international privé québécois ]
Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 991–1004
Kamal Yassine1 and Rajaa Naji2
1 Département du droit privé, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Rabat, Maroc
2 Département du droit privé, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Rabat, Maroc
Original language: French
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The relationship between the western private international law and the institutions of the Islamic law constitutes a marked out course of tensions and more than one half-century of jurisprudence did not succeed in alleviating them. The study of the relations of the private international law deprived between the Muslim legal systems and the Quebec legal system illustrates the difficulties between the systems when the involved civilizations appear very different. Consequently, the great difference between the Muslim civilization and the Quebec civilization invite to seek a better coordination between these legal systems in order to achieve the objectives of private international law. In this research, one can only deplore the existence of two designs which are opposed today in the relations of the Muslim legal system: that of the laic right and that of the religious right. It is indeed the main obstacle to the reception of the Muslim personal status in Quebec. By analyzing this last point of the reception of the institutions of the Islamic right in Quebec it proved that the Quebec law enjoys a supremacy compared to the foreign law as regards personal status of the Muslims established in Quebec. This is explained by the desire to protect the cohesion of the national legal system. However, can this concern go until blaming the international harmony of the solutions? In Muslim countries, the private international law situation is not better than that of Quebec. Despite the creation of states in the modern sense of the term and the adoption of the Nationality factor, the private international law of Muslim countries remains always a system of privileges. The practice reveals that the solutions adopted today are still captive of the privilege of religion and the privilege of nationality. However, we are persuaded that the reasoning adopted by the two legal orders can only aggravate the problems of the private international law raised by the presence of a Muslim community in Quebec and in no case reconcile the goals of the private international law. Such a statement has prompted us to look for other solutions that can replace the classical method. Several solutions have been proposed including autonomy of the will.
Author Keywords: Personal status, Muslims, conflict of norms, secular law, religious law, coordination, the law option.
Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2015, Pages 991–1004
Kamal Yassine1 and Rajaa Naji2
1 Département du droit privé, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Rabat, Maroc
2 Département du droit privé, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Rabat, Maroc
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The relationship between the western private international law and the institutions of the Islamic law constitutes a marked out course of tensions and more than one half-century of jurisprudence did not succeed in alleviating them. The study of the relations of the private international law deprived between the Muslim legal systems and the Quebec legal system illustrates the difficulties between the systems when the involved civilizations appear very different. Consequently, the great difference between the Muslim civilization and the Quebec civilization invite to seek a better coordination between these legal systems in order to achieve the objectives of private international law. In this research, one can only deplore the existence of two designs which are opposed today in the relations of the Muslim legal system: that of the laic right and that of the religious right. It is indeed the main obstacle to the reception of the Muslim personal status in Quebec. By analyzing this last point of the reception of the institutions of the Islamic right in Quebec it proved that the Quebec law enjoys a supremacy compared to the foreign law as regards personal status of the Muslims established in Quebec. This is explained by the desire to protect the cohesion of the national legal system. However, can this concern go until blaming the international harmony of the solutions? In Muslim countries, the private international law situation is not better than that of Quebec. Despite the creation of states in the modern sense of the term and the adoption of the Nationality factor, the private international law of Muslim countries remains always a system of privileges. The practice reveals that the solutions adopted today are still captive of the privilege of religion and the privilege of nationality. However, we are persuaded that the reasoning adopted by the two legal orders can only aggravate the problems of the private international law raised by the presence of a Muslim community in Quebec and in no case reconcile the goals of the private international law. Such a statement has prompted us to look for other solutions that can replace the classical method. Several solutions have been proposed including autonomy of the will.
Author Keywords: Personal status, Muslims, conflict of norms, secular law, religious law, coordination, the law option.
Abstract: (french)
Les rapports entre le droit international privé occidental et les institutions du droit musulman constituent un parcours jalonné de tensions et plus d'un demi-siècle de jurisprudence n'a pas réussi les apaiser. L'étude des relations du droit international privé entre les systèmes juridiques musulmans et le système juridique québécois illustre les difficultés entre les systèmes lorsque les civilisations en présence se révèlent très différentes. Par conséquent, la grande différence entre la civilisation musulmane et la civilisation québécoise invite à chercher une meilleure coordination entre ces systèmes juridiques dans le but de réaliser les objectifs du droit international privé. Dans cette recherche, on ne peut que déplorer l'existence de deux conceptions qui s'opposent aujourd'hui dans les relations du système juridique musulman: celui du droit laïc et celui du droit religieux. Il s'agit en effet du principal obstacle à la réception du statut personnel musulman au Québec. En analysant ce dernier point de la réception des institutions du droit islamique au Québec il s'est avéré que le droit québécois jouit d'une suprématie par rapport au droit étranger en matière de statut personnel des musulmans établis au Québec. Cela s'explique par le souci de protéger la cohésion du système juridique interne. Toutefois, cette préoccupation peut-elle aller jusqu'à mettre en cause l'harmonie internationale des solutions ? Dans les pays musulman, la situation du DIP n'est pas meilleure que celle du Québec. Malgré la création des États au sens moderne du terme et l'adoption du facteur de rattachement de la nationalité, le DIP des pays musulmans reste toujours un système de privilèges. La pratique révèle que les solutions adoptées aujourd'hui sont encore prisonnières du privilège de religion et du privilège de nationalité. Or, nous sommes persuadés que le raisonnement adopté par les deux ordres juridiques ne peut qu'aggraver les problèmes du DIP suscités par la présence d'une communauté musulmane au Québec et ne peut en aucun cas concilier les objectifs du DIP. Une telle affirmation nous a poussés à chercher d'autres solutions qui peuvent se substituer à la méthode classique.
Author Keywords: Statut personnel, musulmans, conflit de normes, droit laïc, droit religieux, coordination, option du droit.
How to Cite this Article
Kamal Yassine and Rajaa Naji, “Autonomy of the will in Quebec private international law,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 991–1004, September 2015.
