Bing Jia, Bing Keywords: Development of international law | International law | International law and national law | Case-law | Stare decisis | Doctrines | Sources of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course offers an understanding of the place of international case law, and thus of precedent, in international law. The notion of precedent in an international scope is looked at while discussing it in both municipal and international law. Article 38(1) of the ICJ and the roles played by the various sources mentioned in it are exam…

Brown Weiss, Edith Keywords: Public international law | Sources of law | Norms [p39] Brown Weiss, Edith BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE [p46] Edith Brown Weiss, place of birth Oregon, United States of America. Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Serves as a Judge on the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund and former President of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Administrative Tribunal. Former President of the American Society of International Law. Was appointed (2012) to a five-year term at the World Ba…

Juillard, Patrick Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Sources of law | Law | Mots clefs: Investissement | Sources | Droit | ABSTRACT In this course, Patrick Juillard, Professor at the Univeristy of Paris I, does not investigate the evolution of investment law as such, but rather at the evolution of the sources of investment law. The course is split in two unequal parts, explains Professor Juillard, because after all, and from a chronological point of view, they cover two periods of unequal importance. Indeed, as th…

Oppetit, Bruno Keywords: Sources of law | Private international law | Methodology | Mots clefs: Sources | Droit international privé | Méthodologie | ABSTRACT In the past decades, methodological problems have taken up the strengths and attention of jurists. A considerable amount of time and intelligence has been devoted to refining the process of conflict of laws and analyzing its crisis, to the study of the pluralism of methods, to the rise of law of public order and substantive rules, and so on. In this course, Bruno …