Petrén, S. Keywords: Expropriation | Claims | Mots clefs: Expropriation et nationalisation | ABSTRACT S. Petren writes that the question of the protection of foreign property against confiscation measures is the most topical issue in 1963. Evolution is then dominated by two major opposing trends, the first one drives the States, especially the new ones, to nationalize foreign property for social policy reasons, while the second trend is determined by the desire to create and maintain a political and economic …

John Fischer Williams K. C., Sir Keywords: External debts | State contracts | International law | Claims | Mots clefs: Dettes étrangères | Contrats d Etat | Droit international | Réclamations | ABSTRACT The study of John Williams deals with the issues related to the States’ external financial obligations, or, in other words, the States’ financial commitments to other States or to nationals of other countries. After a presentation of the two categories of debt, the author focuses on Lord Palmerston’s doctrine, Drago’s doctrine, …

Collins, Lawrence Keywords: States | Government | Claims | Restitution | Cases | Trials | Mots clefs: Etats | Gouvernement | Réclamations | Restitution | Affaires | Litige | ABSTRACT This course of Lawrence Collins, Lord Justice of Appeal, concerns the political or public law claims made by States in foreign courts and begins with mentioning two claims about 150 years apart, involving two colourful characters, Louis Kossuth of Hungary and President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. After presenting an historic overview of the fac…

C. Witenberg, J. Keywords: Claims | Universal jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Réclamations | Juridiction internationale | ABSTRACT J.C.Witenberg begins his course on the Admissibility of Complaints in Presence of International Jurisdictions with a presentation of the sources and the definition and classification of the means of admissibility. The author then studies the condition of admissibility concerned with the parties to the dispute (the endorsement) and the conditions of admissibility of individual complaints. …