La rencontre du droit international privé et du climat : réfléxions de méthode au sujet desKlimaSeniorinnen (CEDH Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz et autres c./ Suisse [GC],Application no. 53600/20).weiz et autres c./ Suisse [GC], Application no. 5360

The article draws on the European Court of Human Rights decision Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland [GC], no. 53600/20, to reflect on the interaction between human rights reasoning and private international law methods. It argues that an expansionist interpretation of human rights need not amount to their imperialist enforcement or to an undemocratic encroachment upon the domain of the executive or legislature. Far from threatening to take over the discipline of private international law, human rights reasoning, as displayed in the present case, might usefully inspire private international law jurists to a renewed openness towards the other