Stern, Brigitte Keywords: State succession | Mots clefs: Succession d états | ABSTRACT Brigitte Stern, Professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) starts her course on State Succession with a global overview in order to identify the terms of the discussion caused by the question of "State Succession": first of all the identification of the semantic framework, which leads Professor Stern to specify the vocabulary used, which she feels often lacks meticulousness (chapter I) ; identification of a…