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…

Barboza, Julio Keywords: International Law Commission | International criminal law | International Criminal Court | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Droit pénal international | Cour pénale internationale | bjt5 | ABSTRACT In his course, Julio Barboza, Professor at the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, intends to deal with the principal infringements on international criminal law and to follow them from the Nuremberg trials to their formulation in the Statute of a Permanent Criminal Court. Professeur Barboza st…

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…

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…

W. Briggs, Herbert Keywords: Codification | International law | International Law Commission | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international | Commission du droit international | ABSTRACT In his course on the Codification of International Law by the International Law Commission and by Other Agencies, Herbert Briggs opted for an approach to carefully examine at the actual behavior of a codification body when confronted with a particular substantive problem. The author addresses in the form of case studies the question of…