Dwight Reid, Helen Keywords: Servitudes | Public international law | Mots clefs: Servitudes | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Helen Dwight Reid says that the doctrine of servitudes has received little attention from those who have studied the law of nations: the fundamental principles are little understood, and its practical application is almost ignored. The servitudes are not necessarily, or even ordinarily, charges imposed by one State on another, to the advantage of the first alone; rather, they are righ…

Wengler, Wilhelm Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Wilhelm Wengler, Professor Emeritus of the Free University of West Berlin, examines in his course the four paradoxes encountered by a jurist trained in the domestic law of a Western state: it is its system of legal sanctions, which is decisive for conceiving public international law as a legal order; there is no legal rule given for the judicial determination of concrete violations of international law; its…

Truyol Y Serra, Antonio Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In his general course on public international law, Antonio Truyol y Serra attempts to find out what is constant and new, or possibly renewal, in the current evolution - to draw up, so to speak, an assessment that does not disdain to take into account the extra-legal factors, which contributed or contribute to the configuration of the principles and rules of public international law as they are presente…

S. Reeves, Jesse Keywords: States | Relations | Public international law | Mots clefs: Etats | Relations | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Jesse Reeves proposes in this course to examine the nature of the International Community. In an effort to bear in mind the very facts of international life, the author sought the fundamental data or major principles that enabled him to establish a valid hypothesis, at least in the field of international law. After observations on the method employed, the author examines Grot…

Cassese, A. Keywords: Constitutional law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit constitutionnel | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Antonio Cassese, Professor at the University of Florence, describes in his course the attitude that modern states adopt toward the international community, insofar as this attitude is described in constitutional texts. More specifically, Antonio Cassese examines whether these States, in their constitutional texts, and to the extent that this is available, in their constitut…

A. Frowein, Jochen Keywords: Public international law | …

Hambro, Edvard Keywords: Public international law | …

A. Barberis, Julio Keywords: Latin America | Public international law | Mots clefs: Amérique latine | Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course, Julio A. Barberis addresses the question of whether, within the framework of the international legal order, there are standards applicable only in a particular regional area or whether, on the contrary, all these standards are universal in scope. In the first part of the course, the author provides the necessary elements to identify the various standards that constitute the international legal order. He also analyzes the characteristics of regional legal standards. In the second part, the author presents the result of investigations on the existence of regional legal standards in Latin Ame…

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Gerald Fitzmaurice K. C. M. G., Q. C., Sir Keywords: Legal principles | …

E. Villiger, Mark Keywords: Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969) | Legal history | International customary law | Law of treaties | Public international law | Mots clefs: Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (Vienne, 23 mai 1969) | Histoire du droit | Droit coutumier international | Droit des traités | Droit international public | ABSTRACT The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, regulating treaties between States, lies at the hea…

Meron, Theodor Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Meron, Theodor

Quadri, Rolando Keywords: Legal philosophy | …

Bourquin, Maurice Keywords: Science | Public international law | Technical sciences | Mots clefs: Sciences | …

Ray, Jean Keywords: Treaties | Public international law | Revision | Mots clefs: Traités | Droit international public | Révision | ABSTRACT History and especially the history of our time, presents to us a large number of cases in which certain clauses of treaties have been attacked, by a State related by them, in the name of certain principles of international law. In order to study this issue, Jean Ray starts with a study of certain diplomatic procedures related to the Oriental issue. He then studies a few affairs b…

L. Kunz, Josef Keywords: Development of international law | Public international law | International organizations | Mots clefs: Développement du droit international | Droit international public | Organisations internationales | ABSTRACT Josef Kunz writes in 1955 that we speak a lot about “crisis of the law of nations” among laymen, statesmen, and even among the representatives of the science of the law of nations. For some, it is a source of resignation, for the others it is a source of hope. It is not surprising, therefore, that there were a lot of confusions in the law of nations and in the science of this law. The author continues let us openly admit that this crisis of the law of nations in fact exists. BuL. Kunz, Josef

Abi-Saab, Georges Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT Georges Abi-Saab, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, chooses a dual-axis investigation in his general course on public international law in order to present a significant overview of the subject: on one hand, to highlight how international law functions as a legal system, that is, how norms, institutions, and mechanisms articulate with resp…