A. Yusuf, Abdulqawi Keywords: Africa | Pan-africanism | Organization of African Unity | African Union | Public international law | International law | Universalism | Decolonization | Regionalism | Public law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course starts by giving the origins and the evolution of Pan-Africanism. It explains how, in the nineteenth century, international law was framed as a Eurocentric public law, the jus publicum Europaeum which did encounter Pan-Africanism, and put aside human rights and human dignity in its way to tre…

Zoller, Elisabeth Keywords: Federal states | Constitutional law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Etats fédéraux | Droit constitutionnel | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT Elizabeth Zoller, Professor at the University of Paris II, examines in this course the ability of an internal constitutional system to contain international elements. Federalism, so argues Professor Zoller, is an international process par excellence, insofar as its object is to bring people and States closer together, withou…

Wang, Guiguo Keywords: China | World Trade Organization | International obligations | International law and domestic law | Compliance | GATS Agreement (Marrakesh, 15 April 1994) | Services | International trade | TRIPS Agreement (Marrakesh, 15 April 1994) | Intellectual property | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (“WTO”) resulted from globalization, through which national law provisions are internationalized and international norms are domesticated. The WTO does not permit reservation by its members who are obliged to ensu…

Musin, Valeriy Keywords: Russian Federation | Sale | International contracts | Private international law | United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 11 April 1980) | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course of lectures deals with Russian civil law norms regulating sales contract as compared with relevant rules of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980). The author shows that Russian norms are quite consistent with those of t…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Choice of law | Unification of law | Law of contracts | Model law | Legal principles | Conventions | Directives | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving …

Buergenthal, Thomas Keywords: Treaties | Direct effect | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Traités | Applicabilité directe | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT In this course, the author focuses on the international law aspect of the concept of self-executing treaties. He does so by analyzing the international law rules that determine what obligations States have to implement treaties on the domestic plane and the extent to which States are required to allow individuals to invoke the specific pr…

Lagrange, Evelyne Keywords: Persons | Individuals | International law and domestic law | Unification of law | Monism and dualism | Norms | Legitimacy | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Today, there is a question of the relationship between the different domestic laws that would make their mark on the international standards of harmonization, or unification of law, applicable to the relations between public authorities and private individuals. In this course, Evelyne Lagrange discusses the extent of the self-determination and self-orga…