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…

Kessedjian, Catherine Keywords: Codification | International commercial law | Private international law | International economic relations | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit commercial international | Droit international privé | Relations internationales économiques | ABSTRACT In this course, Catherine Kessedjian attempts to identify the concrete reality of the legal norms created to govern the operations, to understand the context in which the developments proposed by her take place, and to present as accurate a picture possibl…

Bystricky, Rudolf Keywords: Czechoslovakia | Private international law | Codification | Mots clefs: Tchécoslovaquie | Droit international privé | Codification | ABSTRACT Rudolf Bystricky starts his course by presenting the nature and the system of private international law in Czechoslovakia. He then studies the main general characteristics of private international law in the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. The author later focuses on the act on private international law and procedure of 4th December 1963, the arb…

Weizuo, Chen Keywords: China | Private international law | Conflict of laws | Codification | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT In this course, Chen Weizuo examines some general and special issues of the new codification of Chinese private international law and focuses on China's new private international law. The author discusses the need for codification of the rules of law because, historically, China has had a tradition of written law. He focuses on the symposia, meetings, and doctrinal debates on the codification of Chine…

S. Maridakis, Georges Keywords: Greece | Private international law | Codification | Mots clefs: Grèce | Droit international privé | Codification | ABSTRACT George S. Marikadis points out in the introduction to his course that the 1856 Greek Law on private international law is one of the most liberal and advanced law in the world. The Greek codification of the rules of private international law undertaken in 1856 remained in force until 23 February 1946, the date of the entry into force of the Civil Code, whose Article…

Jayme, Erik Keywords: Codification | Private international law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Erik Jayme, Professor at the University of Munich, notes in the introduction to his course that the idea of codifying private international law does not emerge until the middle of the 19th century. This course is the doctrinal elaboration of the subject by eminent authors in the first half of the nineteenth century that has brought private international law into the conscience of legisl…

Liang, Yuen-Li Keywords: Codification | International law | Development of international law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international | Développement du droit international | ABSTRACT After a presentation of the position and role of international law in the Charter of the United Nations, Yuen-Li Liang offers a historical overview of the development of international law through conferences and the efforts made toward the codification. He focuses on the methods of encouraging the progressive development of internat…

Daudet, Yves Keywords: Codification | International law | Mots clefs: Codification | | | ABSTRACT Professor Daudet of the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) devotes his course mainly to the codification process of international law and to its transformation and future developments. Explaining that beyond the variety of codification permanent features can be found, and always in search of rationality that wants a more stable, protective and efficient legal rule, Professor Daudet develops his subject matt…

H. Van Hoogstraten, M. Keywords: Hague Conference on Private International Law | Private international law | Codification | Treaties | Mots clefs: Conférence de La Haye de droit international privé | Droit international privé | Codification | Traités | ABSTRACT The Hague Conference of Private International Law aims at working for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law (art. 1 of the Statute). Just like the other international organizations, the Conference seeks to accomplish its task by concluding intern…

de Visscher, Charles Keywords: Codification | International law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international | ABSTRACT In the introduction to his course on the Codification of International Law, Charles De Visscher presents the characteristics of the Codification of International Law as it occurred in 1925. The author devotes the first part of his course to an analysis of the fundamental concepts, the foundation, and formal sources of international law. In the second part to deal entirely with the codificat…

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…

Baron Boris Nolde, Le Keywords: Codification | Private international law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Boris Nolde points out in the introduction to his course that private law, civil law and trade law of the Modern world become a veritable study of legal Babble: each person speaks his own language of law. Hence the problem of conflicts of civil and trade law and the necessity for their solution of a special system of legal rules are labeled as “private international law”. It is …

Treves, Tullio Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Law of the sea | Codification | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | Droit de la mer | Codification | ABSTRACT Since the codification of international law is concretized in the conclusion of conventions, Tullio Treves, Professor at the State University of Milan, points out the following main problems: to what extent do these conventions correspond to what States as a whole consi…

Šahović, Milan Keywords: International co-operation | Public international law | Legal principles | Codification | Mots clefs: Coopération internationale | Droit international public | Principes de droit | Codification | ABSTRACT To find the elements that reflect the importance of the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations of cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, Milan Sahovic analyzes three fundamental aspects, namely the historical aspect, which …

Ferrer-Correia, A. Keywords: Codification | Private international law | Mots clefs: Codification | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT According to the traditional view, A. Ferrer-Correia points out that the purpose of the private international law is only to designate the law applicable to multinational situations, and its typical method can be briefly described as follows: concrete legal issues belonging to a legal category X will be resolved in accordance with the provisions of the law presenting a certain co…

Augusto Cançado Trindade, Antônio Keywords: Latin America | Public international law | International law | Development of international law | Codification | Doctrines | Peace conferences | The Hague | 1907 | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course begins with the development of international law in Latin America, with the International Conferences of American States, and focuses on the contribution of Latin American States to the two Hague Peace Conference of 1907, as they had projection in time. The author then focuses on subsequent end…