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Hostie, Jean Keywords: Rhine River | International status | Water | Mots clefs: Rhin | Statut international | ABSTRACT After general considerations on the regime of the International Rivers, Jean Hostie presents the physical constitution of the Rhine network and the economic role of the Rhine network. The author then studies the origins and development of the statute of the Rhine and the sources of the present statute. The author discusses the issues of the waterway (the problem of construction) and the exploitati…

P. Jagota, S. Keywords: Maritime boundaries | Mots clefs: Frontières maritimes | ABSTRACT The issue of maritime boundaries is a sensitive subject, especially since coastal states have acquired sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zone, and other maritime areas. In his course, S.P. Jagota discusses and analyzes the evolution of the rules of international law relating to maritime boundaries. He first examines the provisions of the general multilateral conventions…

Van Langenhove, Fernand Keywords: United Nations | Indigenous peoples | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Indigènes | ABSTRACT In Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter, Member States "which assume responsibility for administering territories whose populations have not yet fully self-govern" have accepted as a "sacred mission" the obligation to promote their prosperity and progress. At the same time, they are committed to provide regular statistical and technical information about them. The question arises whether th…

Reed, Lucy Keywords: International crises | Public international law | Private international law | International dispute settlement | Iran-United States Claims Tribunal | United Nations Compensation Commission | North Korea | Nuclear energy | Mots clefs: Crises internationales | Droit international public | Droit international privé | Solution des différends internationaux | Tribunal irano-américain de réclamations | Commission de compensation des Nations Unies | Corée du Nord | Energie nucléaire | ABSTRACT Lucy Reed, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in…

Lowe, Vaughan Keywords: International law | Theory | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This inaugural conference is based on the fact that the Law has limitations at every level: national law as much as international law. The argument is that international law should be understood from an instrumentalist perspective, as the law is one way and not the only way to give answers. This makes sense as international law is an option among others in international relations, and has many limits, as detailed by the author in thr…

Goldblat, Jozef Keywords: Proliferation | Treaties | Mots clefs: Prolifération et non-prolifération | Traité | ABSTRACT This course of Jozef Goldblat, senior lecturer and research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, focuses on the nuclear non-proliferation régime. Josef Glodblat starts his course with an overview of the early efforts to outlaw nuclear weapons. The author then presents the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (the ban on the transfer or the acquisition of nuclear weapon…

Blanca Noodt Taquela, María Keywords: Treaties | Private international law | Judicial cooperation | Jurisdiction | Choice of law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to draw attention to the overlapping of Private International Law treaties on International Judicial Co-operation and to give the reader an understanding of the rules and principles that provided a solution to this problem. It leads to taking a look at the principles and rules of Public International Law to apply to Private International Law. An analys…

El Dine Tarazi, Salah Keywords: Africa | Personal status | Arab States | Mots clefs: Afrique | Statut personnel | Pays arabes | ABSTRACT Salah El Dine Tarazi notes in the introduction to his course that the law of personal status is, as a subject of study in the Arab and African countries, mixed with certain originality due to the intervention of an important historical and sociological factor, Islam, which gave rise to a monument: Muslim Law. Throughout the sixteen chapters, the author presents Islam and Islamic law as well as the evolution of personal status in Arab and African countries. Sal…

Schindler, Diètrich Keywords: League of Nations | International arbitration | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Arbitrage international | ABSTRACT Dietrich Schindler points out in his introduction to his course that the international law has made more progress in any field in comparison to the field of conciliation and arbitration since the Hague conference. It is especially that since the creation of the League of Nations, the author continues, the movement for the peaceful settlement of international conflicts ha…

Dugard, John Keywords: Kosovo | Secession | Right of self-determination | Recognition of States | Territorial integrity of States | State Practice | International Court of Justice | Advisory opinions | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course, given by John Dugard, is regarding secession and its recognition by looking at the theory, and at the Kosovo case. In the introduction, is drawn the law of succession, and especially the principal rules concerning creation and secession of states, as well as the policy impact. After a short histor…

Ramon De Orúe y Arregui, José Keywords: Regionalism | Mots clefs: Régionalisme | ABSTRACT Jose Ramon De Orue y Arregui, in this course, offers a study of regionalism in international law, namely the rules of international law appropriate to certain groups of States. After a presentation of the general and specific rules of the law of nations and a classification of the specific and regional rules, the author studies the regionalist phenomenon on international order, decentralizing and regionalist events with …

Riphagen, †W. Keywords: Methodology | Public international law | Mots clefs: Méthodologie | Droit international public | ABSTRACT W. Riphagen, Professor Emeritus of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, proposes in this course to build up a scientific modelization of the techniques applied in international law. The following topics are dealt with successively: modelization of techniques; similar problems and solutions within domestic law; interpenetration of international law and domestic law; the branches of ius …

K. Kuhn, Arthur Keywords: United States of America | Private international law | Mots clefs: Etats-Unis d’Amérique | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Arthur Kuhn’s course is devoted to the doctrine and practice of private international law of the United States. After a presentation of the doctrine of "Comity", the author studies the conception of public policy in the United States. He then focuses on the conception of the criminal law and the procedure for appeals, the ability of the people, the contract and the s…

Urrutia, F.-J. Keywords: America | International law | Codification | Mots clefs: Amérique | Droit international | Codification | ABSTRACT Francisco-Jose Urrutia begins his course on the codification of international law in America with a presentation of the principles of international law proclaimed by the American States since the constitution. He then presents the history of the codification of international law in America and the technique that has been used in this context. He then focuses on the Congress of A…

Valladão, Haroldo Keywords: Marriage | Nationality | Family law | Private international law | Divorce and judicial separation | Habitual residence | Mots clefs: Nationalité | ABSTRACT Haroldo Valladao’s object is to determine, in countries that follow the classic principles of national law or the law of the domicile to regulate the effects and the dissolution of marriage, the choice of law applied, when the spouses do not have the same nationality or domicile, and the choice of respective national or domiciliary laws in c…

Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence Keywords: International organizations | Institutions and organs | Regional organizations | International economic organizations | Relations | European Union | International organizations | World Trade Organization | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | Regional trade agreements | Regionalism | African Union | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Institutions et organes | Organisations régionales | Organisations internationales économiques | Relations | Union européenne | Organisations internationales | Organisation mondial…

Dupuis, René Keywords: Europe | International relations | Mots clefs: Europe | Relations internationales | ABSTRACT By a sort of original sin which greatly affects the political destinies of humanity, people have almost always revolted against the multinational fact, explains Rene Dupuis. They have almost always tended to dominate each other, until one of them, at the end of this sterile and exhausting process, which is tiring and unproductive, managed to rule over each other and establish a “Global State”. How…

P. Kovács [p81] NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p87] Péter Kovács, né le 10 février 1959 à Szeged, en Hongrie. A sa sortie de la faculté de droit de l’Université Attila József à Szeged, il a complété ses études universitaires en France par un diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées (à Nancy, au Centre européen universitaire). De retour en Hongrie, il a entamé sa carrière universitaire, d’abord en tant que maître de conférences à l’Université de Miskolc, puis professeur et comme chef du département de droit international…

Fedozzi, Prosper Keywords: Public acts | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Mots clefs: Actes publics | Extraterritorialité des lois | ABSTRACT The problem of the extraterritorial effectiveness of laws is not an exclusive private law problem, but it can arise in all laws. Prosper Fedozzi explains that, whatever category these laws belong to, under the growing impulse of international solidarity, each of them can become susceptible to extension outside the territory. The author focuses on the analysis of this phenomenon. Le problème de l'efficacité extraterritoriale des lois …

Kaufmann, Wilhelm Keywords: International economic organizations | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales économiques | ABSTRACT After introductory and general considerations on International Unions of an Economic Nature, the author studies in the first part the international unions of an economic nature relating to agriculture and other primodium production. In a second part the author focuses on the international unions of an economic nature relating to the industry including intellectual productions. Th…