Pearce Higgins, A. Keywords: Great Britain | Jurisconsults | International law | Mots clefs: Grande-Bretagne | Juristes | Droit international | ABSTRACT It is a recognized fact that lawyers cannot make international law, but they have played and continue to play an important role in helping to develop its rules, by Pearce Higgins in the introduction to his course. The author successively presents the contributions of James Lorimer, John Westlake, William Edward Hall, and Sir Thomas Eskine Holland to international law. C'est un fait reconnu, écrit A. Pearce Higgins en introdu…

ST. J. Macdonald, R. Keywords: Jurisconsults | Foreign policy | Mots clefs: Juristes | Politique étrangère | ABSTRACT The objective of Professor Macdonald's course is to review the different systems that allow national governments to be advised on the issues of international law and to identify opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the systems. After introductory remarks on the legal adviser, the action of the legal adviser, and the perception and role of the legal adviser, the author presents ten lega…

Hill Kay, Herma Keywords: United States of America | Jurisconsults | Conflict of laws | Doctrines | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Juristes | Droit interrégional | Doctrines | ABSTRACT Herma Hill Kay, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, devotes her course to a defense of Brainerd Currie’s approach to the determination of applicable law in private international law, as he developed it between 1958 and 1965, and called it governmental interest analysis. After a presentation of the historical context of …