Dupuis, René Keywords: Europe | International relations | Mots clefs: Europe | Relations internationales | ABSTRACT By a sort of original sin which greatly affects the political destinies of humanity, people have almost always revolted against the multinational fact, explains Rene Dupuis. They have almost always tended to dominate each other, until one of them, at the end of this sterile and exhausting process, which is tiring and unproductive, managed to rule over each other and establish a “Global State”. How…

H. Robertson, A. Keywords: European integration | European Communities | Rights relating to literary and artistic works | Council of Europe | Europe | International organizations | European Coal and Steel Community | Mots clefs: Intégration européenne | Communautés européennes | Propriété littéraire et artistique | Conseil de l'Europe | Europe | Organisations internationales | Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier | ABSTRACT A.H. Robertson focuses on the Legal Problems of European Integration in this course. After a chapter dealing with the institut…

Van Gerven, Walter Keywords: Europe | Private international law | Transfer of proceedings | European Union | Mots clefs: Europe | Droit international privé | Renvoi | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Professor Walter van Gerven starts from the observation that there exists on the same territory a multiplicity of levels of legal orders (for example, seven legal orders intervening at different levels in Belgium). M. van Gerven wonders how and on the basis of which criteria it is possible to formulate “conflict” or rather “referral” …

Hay, Peter Keywords: United States of America | Conflict of laws | Europe | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Droit interrégional | Droit international privé | Europe | ABSTRACT Peter Hay, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, emphasizes in the introduction to his course that a contradiction between the need for flexibility (to avoid an unfair decision) and the need for legal certainty cannot be resolved. It is the natural consequence of the difference between the development…

Truchy, Henri Keywords: Europe | Customs union | Mots clefs: Europe | Union douanière | ABSTRACT The conception of a European Customs Union is born out of the consequences of the Great War, the necessity clearly appeared to some men to establish an economic regime in Europe comprising of a high degree of unity. It is the conception which Henri Truchy proposes in his course to study the origins, the reasons of being, the terms under which we can represent it, the chances of accomplishment which it can have and the multiple obstacles which this accomplishment encounters in 1934. La conception d…

Yanagihara, Masaharu Keywords: Europe | East Asia | Public international law | International law | History of international law | Universalism | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The purpose of this course is to show the critical importance of historical viewpoint on international law in Europe and East Asia. Thus, the beginning aims to understand whether international law is really a concept unique to the European States in pre-modern and modern times, as it was often assumed for a long time. It appears that many countries had anot…

de la Brière, Yves Keywords: Europe | Concordat judiciaire | Mots clefs: Europe | Concordats | ABSTRACT Yves de la Briere, in the introduction of his course, notes that a concordat is an agreement concluded between the religious authorities and the civil authorities in order to jointly settle certain matters which simultaneously affect the respective activities of both the authorities. The author starts his study by a presentation of the concordats of the three countries of the Baltic (Latvia, Poland, and Lithua…

Bourquin, Maurice Keywords: Europe | Alliances | Political history | Mots clefs: Europe | Alliances | Histoire politique | ABSTRACT In his course, Maurice Bourquin does not try to expose the entire work of the Holy Alliance – which would be impossible, he says – but to analyze certain aspects of this work chosen because of their importance and, sometimes, analogies they offer with the current problems of the international organization as it emerged in 1953. After a review of the immediate origins of the Holy Allian…

R. Beaumont, Paul Keywords: Europe | Children | Abduction | European Union | Court of Justice of the European Communities | Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (The Hague, 25 October 1980) | Case-law | Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 [Brussels, 27 November 2003] | Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union | Council of Europe | European Court o…

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Musy, Jean-Marie Keywords: Europe | Economy | Mots clefs: Europe | Economie politique | ABSTRACT Jean-Pierre Musy in 1936 points out that there is nothing more vast and complex in comparison to an examination of the economic structure of Old World based on the burning questions posed by the serious events of the present time from all the current problems. The author begins with a presentation of the economic structure of Europe. He focuses on the crisis and asks where the world is going, between inflation and …

Degan, Vladimir-Djuro Keywords: Europe | Newly-indepe…

Verosta, Stephan Keywords: Europe | International law | Ancient law | Southwest Asia | Mots clefs: Europe | Droit international | Droits de l'antiquité | ABSTRACT Stephan Verosta devotes his course onVerosta, Stephan

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Ninčić, Djura Keywords: Acte final d'Helsinki | Europe | …

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