Dupuy, Pierre-Marie Keywords: International Law Commission | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor at the University of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Paris, successively examines wrongful facts and so-called "facts not prohibited by international law". The criterion of differentiation between the two categories refers to the analysis of the criteria for identifying the legality of a fact of the State, under int…

Gaja, Giorgio Keywords: Ius cogens | Public international law | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969) | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Jus cogens | Droit international public | Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités (Vienne, 23 mai 1969) | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Giorgio Gaja, Professor at the University of Florence, begins an analysis of the role of peremptory norms in contemporary treaty law. He devotes a first chapter of his course to treaty law. After some preliminary remarks on the relevance of…

Starace, Vincenzo Keywords: State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT The problem that forms the subject of the course of Vincenzo Starace, Professor at the University of Bari, is whether it is justified, according to contemporary international law, to distinguish the regime of State’s responsibility on account of the content of the violated international obligation, and more specifically whether it is justified that the State violating certain international obligations, characte…

Condorelli, Luigi Keywords: International Law Commission | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Luigi Condorelli, Professor at the University of Geneva, begins his course by asking and solving a number of preliminary problems of general nature in order to clarify some important premises, which constitute a kind of conceptual tool for further research. The author then reconstructs, using the work of the International Law Commission, the principles o…

Wilfred Jenks, C. Keywords: Civil liability | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité civile | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT C. Wilfried Jenks points out in his introduction that there are a growing number of exceptions to the principle that liability under international law is solely based on fault. Are these exceptions considered as anomalies or indicative of a modification of the principle? C. Wilfried Jenks attempts to answer to the questions in his course, by successively studying the aviation …

Accioly, Hildebrando Keywords: State responsibility | Legal principles | Public international law | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | Principes généraux du droit | Droit international public | ABSTRACT International responsibility, according to Hildebrando Accioly, is a legal position based on the well-known principle that, in the Community of Nations, as in civil society, all members of the Community, in their mutual relations, must observe rules of justice and respect their commitments. After a presentation of the ge…

V. Garcia Amador, F. Keywords: State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT In 1953, the General Assembly requested the International Law Commission to undertake the task of codifying the principles of international law governing State responsibility. But the codification of these principles at the present stage (1958) of development of international law encounters problems not existing at the time of initial work established under the aegis of the League of Nations. The study of these problems is the subject of Francisco Garcia Amador's course. L'assembl…

Crawford, James Keywords: Obligations of the state | Public international law | Development of international law | Ius cogens | International Law Commission | State responsibility | United Nations | Charter | International Court of Justice | Mots clefs: Obligations des états | Droit international public | Développement du droit international | Jus cogens | Commission du droit international | Responsabilité des Etats | Nations Unies | Charte | Cour internationale de Justice | ABSTRACT The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this…

Pisillo Mazzeschi, Riccardo Keywords: Human rights | International obligations | Infraction | State responsibility | Mots clefs: Droits de l’homme | Obligations internationales | Violation | Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, Professor at the University of Siena, points out in the introduction to his course that the subject of positive obligations of States in the field of international human rights protection and the possible violation of obligations has acquired an increasing importance, both fr…

Graefrath, Bernhard Keywords: State responsibility | Mots clefs: Responsabilité des Etats | ABSTRACT Bernhard Graefrath devotes his course to the relationship between responsibility and damage in international law. After a discussion of the function of responsibility in international law, the author examines the need for the violation of obligations for international responsibility to be incurred. He then presents compensation for damages as a form of international responsibility. Finally, the author explore…