Cavaré, L. Keywords: United Nations | Sanctions | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Sanction | ABSTRACT The United Nations (UN) constitutes a favorable framework for the establishment and development of sanctions. In this course, Louis Cavaré first provides the meaning of the term “legal regime” in a legality regime because the sanctions assume a clearly improved character. The author then deals with two essential elements of a system of legality: restriction of discretionary power of States and the role of the judge…

Ermacora, Felix Keywords: United Nations | Ethnic minorities | Minorities | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Minorités ethniques | ABSTRACT Felix Ermacora, Professor at the University of Vienna, devotes his course to the protection of minorities before the United Nations. After a historical overview of the protection of minorities from the inter-war period, the author presents a dogmatic approach to the problems of minorities before the United Nations: the problem of defining the concept of minority, the problem of the …

Eduardo Jimenez De Arechaga, M. Keywords: United Nations | Organization of American States | Pacific settlement of disputes | Collective security | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Organisation des Etats américains | Règlement pacifique des différends internationaux | Sécurité collective | ABSTRACT Eduardo Jumenez de Arechaga analyzes in his course the coordination relationship of systems of United Nations and Organization of American States for peaceful settlement of disputes. After a general presentation of the elements of the coordination…

Schachter, Oscar Keywords: United Nations | Decision-making | Peacekeeping | International police | Economic development | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Prise de décisions | Maintien de la paix | Police internationale | Développement économique | ABSTRACT The main objective that Oscar Schachter assigns to his course is to show how the law acts within the political system developed within the United Nations since 1945. The author begins with the presentation of place of law in the process of decision in the political organs of the Uni…

Schreiber, Marc Keywords: United Nations | Human rights | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (New York, 16 December 1966) | Racial discrimination | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Droits de l homme | Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques (New York, 16 décembre 1966) | Discrimination raciale | ABSTRACT The subject of Marc Schreiber's course is that of the second breakthrough in the barriers that traditional law of nations have established to protect the States, the topical subjects in international law, against a…

Arangio-Ruiz, Gaetano Keywords: United Nations | General Assembly | International relations | Declarations | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Assemblée générale | Relations internationales | Déclarations | ABSTRACT The course of Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, Professor at the University of Bologna, is devoted to the study of some legal problems related to the Declaration of Principles on Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, incorporated in resolution 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970. Le cours de Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, professeur à l'Université de Bologne est consacré à …

Pelichet, Michel Keywords: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 11 April 1980) | United Nations | Sale | Contracts | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur les contrats de vente internationale de marchandises [Vienne, 11 avril 1980] | Nations Unies | Vente | Contrats | ABSTRACT The main subject of the course by Michel Pelichet, Deputy Secretary-General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, is the study of the 1986 Hague Convention, which is presented as a revision of the 1955 Con…

Eagleton, Clyde Keywords: International organizations | Legal personality | United Nations | Accountability | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Personnalité juridique | Nations Unies | Responsabilité | ABSTRACT Clyde Eagleton starts from the point of view, in his course, that the idea of responsibility comes historically from the moral sense of the existence of an obligation recognized throughout humanity: States have rights and duties, and any violation of any of these involves reparation. To deal with this issu…