Arrighi, Jean-Michel Keywords: Organization of American States | Public international law | International law | Institutional law | Institutions and organs | Legal co-operation | Democracy | History | Mots clefs: Organisation des Etats américains | Droit international public | Droit international | Droit institutionnel | Institutions et organes | Coopération juridique | Démocratie | Histoire | ABSTRACT The Organization of American States (OAS), created in 1948, is just a link in a long chain of inter-American institutions that emerged from the first Am…

De Nova, Rodolfo Keywords: Private international law | History | Mots clefs: Droit international privé | Histoire | ABSTRACT Rodolfo de Nova's course is divided into two parts: a historical part and a comparative part. In the historical part, the author focuses on the "statutists" and presents the Italian, French, and Dutch schools in the nineteenth century. The second part of the course is devoted to the presentation of general problems and general theories. He examines the reference to the rules of foreign confl…

Truyol y Serra, Antonio Keywords: History | International law | Mots clefs: Histoire | Droit international | ABSTRACT To designate the objective of the course, Antonio Truyol Y Serra refers to a concept borrowed from biology: mutation, which he applies here to the international society. The mutation involves the transition from a plurality of international, specific, or regional societies to a single international society on a global scale. After a presentation of the "European System of States", the author exami…