Leben, Charles Keywords: Foreign direct investment | State contracts | Law of contracts | Private international law | International arbitration | Mots clefs: Investissement | Contrats d'Etat | Droit des obligations | Droit international privé | Arbitrage international | ABSTRACT A contract of State, explains Professor Leben, is an official report drawn up between the State and a foreign body with regards to an international economic operation, that generally, but not necessarily, concerns an investment. This matter has evolved conside…

Goldman, Berthold Keywords: International arbitration | Private international law | Mots clefs: Arbitrage international | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Berthold Goldman's intention is not to examine the international private law of the various States, relating to international arbitration, but to seek, from International Conventions, the rules of arbitration institutions and the practice of arbitration, if and how one can conceive within the framework of this institution, an autonomous system of solution of conflicts of laws. Le propos de Berthold Goldman n'est p…

Baron Michel De Taube, Le Keywords: International arbitration | History | Mots clefs: Arbitrage international | Histoire | ABSTRACT Michel de Taube explains at the beginning of his course that, by studying in great detail the history of international relations, we have come to the conviction that the arbitration practice can boast of such interesting and numerous antecedents, especially in the medieval times and in antiquity. After a study of the first arbitrations between States in the ancient East and archaic ar…