W. Bowett, D. Keywords: Judicial settlement of international disputes | International conciliation | Mots clefs: Règlement judiciaire des différends internationaux | Conciliation internationale | ABSTRACT D.W. Bowett begins his course on contemporary developments in the field of legal techniques of settlement of disputes with a description of the principle of dispute settlement through legal means. The author focuses on the conciliation and its relations between the law and the legal process. Finally, he examines the pr…