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…

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…

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…

J. Hahn, Hugo Keywords: Europe | International organizations | Competence | European Coal and Steel Community | European Economic Community | European Atomic Energy Community | Treaties | Community law | Mots clefs: Europe | Organisations internationales | Compétence | Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier | Communauté économique européenne | Communauté européenne de l'énergie atomique | Traités | Droit communautaire | ABSTRACT Hugo Hahn devotes his course to Constitutional Limitations in the Law of International Organizations. By constitution, it m…

H. Alexandrowicz, Charles Keywords: South Asia | Europe | Diplomacy | Treaties | Mots clefs: Asie du Sud | Europe | Diplomatie | Traités | ABSTRACT Charles Alexandrowicz begins his course on Treaties and Diplomatic Relations Between European and South Asian Powers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries with a historic overview of the relations between Suzerain States and Vassal States. He then presents the controversy between Grotius and Freitas. He examines the treaties and the contexts in which they were signed. F…

Degan, Vladimir-Djuro Keywords: Europe | Newly-independent states | Recognition of states | State succession | Mots clefs: Europe | Etats nouveaux | Reconnaissance des Etats | Succession d états | ABSTRACT Vladimir-Djuro Degan, Professor Emeritus of the University of Rijeka, asks a certain number of questions in the introduction to his course: is there such a thing as an international community at the present time, and can it be claimed that this community is in itself a subject of international law? What is the importance of…

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 on International Law in Europe and Western Asia Between 100 and 650 A.D. After a presentation of international law in the relations between Rome and Persia from 100 to 300 A.D., the author focuses on subjects of international law in the north and south of the Roman and Persian empires, and then examines the question of Armenia…

Ninčić, Djura Keywords: Acte final d'Helsinki | Europe | European security | Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe | Mots clefs: Acte final de la Conférence sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (Helsinki, 1 août 1975) | Europe | Sécurité européenne | Conférence sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe | ABSTRACT On 1st August 1975, the political heads of thirty three European countries, the United States, and Canada, met at Helsinki, to sign the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Helsinki summ…

Bernad Y Alvarez De Eulate, Maximiliano Keywords: Europe | Transfrontier co-operation | Mots clefs: Europe | Coopération transfrontalière | ABSTRACT Maximiliano Bernad y Alvarez de Eulate, Professor at the University of Saragossa, proposes to draw the attention of the reader to the problems and the achievements of regional and local cross-border cooperation, to show how in practice this is characterized by a very important degree of spontaneousness, diversity and flexibility, and to highlight certain trends. Profes…