Musin, Valeriy Keywords: Russian Federation | Sale | International contracts | Private international law | United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 11 April 1980) | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course of lectures deals with Russian civil law norms regulating sales contract as compared with relevant rules of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980). The author shows that Russian norms are quite consistent with those of t…

Triepel, H. Keywords: International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT After recalling the importance of the relationship between international law and domestic law, H. Triepel creates in the first chapter a distinction between international law and domestic law, and explains that the criterion of distinction between the laws lies in the opposition between the social relations they govern and the legal sources from which they originate. The author then makes a compa…

Miele, Mario Keywords: International organizations | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Organisations internationales | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT The course of Mario Miele is an attempt to scientifically systematize the phenomena of incidence in the National Constitutional Specialty, which appear in relation to the functions of certain organizations, destined by their institutional acts, by their vocation, by the institutional process that, since their creation, accompanies their act…

Kelsen, Hans Keywords: International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT The existence of a legal community between the various States and the resulting relations between them raises certain problems of legal theory: these are the problems exposed by Hans Kelsen in this course. In the first part, Kelsen examines the State and analyzes the issue of sovereignty. He devotes the second part of his course to the relationship between domestic law and international law. He …

Walz, G.-.A. Keywords: International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT G.-A. Walt begins his course with an overview of various themes on the Relationship Between International Law and Domestic Law. The author then presents the basic facts of legal practice, and examines the legal relationship between international law and domestic law. The author outlines the domestic methods utilized for the internal validation of international law. Finally, the author presents t…

Zoller, Elisabeth Keywords: Federal states | Constitutional law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Etats fédéraux | Droit constitutionnel | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT Elizabeth Zoller, Professor at the University of Paris II, examines in this course the ability of an internal constitutional system to contain international elements. Federalism, so argues Professor Zoller, is an international process par excellence, insofar as its object is to bring people and States closer together, withou…

A. Yusuf, Abdulqawi Keywords: Africa | Pan-africanism | Organization of African Unity | African Union | Public international law | International law | Universalism | Decolonization | Regionalism | Public law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course starts by giving the origins and the evolution of Pan-Africanism. It explains how, in the nineteenth century, international law was framed as a Eurocentric public law, the jus publicum Europaeum which did encounter Pan-Africanism, and put aside human rights and human dignity in its way to tre…

Mestre, Achille Keywords: Treaties | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Traités | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT In this course, Achille Mestre discusses some aspects of the question of the relationship between treaties and domestic law, and, mainly from the point of view of French public law, examines what positive solutions have been given to the question of the powers of the national judge with respect to treaties. The author examines the following questions: under what conditions ca…

Mirkine-Guetzévitch, Boris Keywords: Peace | Constitutional law | International law and domestic law | Renunciation of war | Mots clefs: Paix | Droit constitutionnel | Droit international et droit interne | Renonciation à la guerre | ABSTRACT The objective of Boris Mirkine-Guetzevitch’s course is to study the constitutional law of peace, that is, the study of the constitutional rules for the peace organization, the different forms by which the modern constitutional law can contribute to the consolidation of international peace. The…

D. Dickinson, Edwin Keywords: Anglo-American law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droit anglo-américain | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT Edwin D. Dickinson explains that the Interpretation and Application of International Law in Anglo-American countries is a poorly-defined subject in the introduction to his course. He focuses on methods and procedures of interpretation and application rather than the nature of the solutions. The author examines the regional process, particularly in Ang…

Uribe Vargas, Diego Keywords: Human rights | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droits de l'homme | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT Diego Uribe Vargas, Colombian Ambassador to Paris, proposes in his lecture the elaboration of an international pact enshrining the rights of the third generation. Diego Uribe Vargas, Ambassadeur de Colombie à Paris, propose dans sa conférence l'élaboration d'un pacte international consacrant les droits de la troisième génération. [p357] Uribe Vargas, Diego LA TROISIÈME GÉNÉRATION DES DROITS DE L’HOMME Diego URIBE VARGAS1…

Wang, Guiguo Keywords: China | World Trade Organization | International obligations | International law and domestic law | Compliance | GATS Agreement (Marrakesh, 15 April 1994) | Services | International trade | TRIPS Agreement (Marrakesh, 15 April 1994) | Intellectual property | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The World Trade Organization (“WTO”) resulted from globalization, through which national law provisions are internationalized and international norms are domesticated. The WTO does not permit reservation by its members who are obliged to ensu…

Giardina, Andrea Keywords: Judgments | International law and domestic law | Decisions | Mots clefs: Arrêts | Droit international et droit interne | Décisions | ABSTRACT Andrea Giardina’s course is divided in order to highlight the evolution of international and national practice in the implementation of international judgments and decisions. After a preliminary examination of conventional solutions and international attempts in the concerned field, the author focuses on the practice of the automatic implementation of int…

Mirkine-Guetzévitch, B. Keywords: Constitutional law | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Droit constitutionnel | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT B. Mirkine- Guetzevitch studies in this course the relationship between Constitutional Law and International Law. First, he describes the historical method of studying the relationship between international law and constitutional law. He then examines the international law and constitutional regimes, international treaties, and constitutional law…

Mosler, H. Keywords: Municipal courts | International law and domestic law | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT The relations between the international community and States and, consequently, the relation of international law to domestic law, can be considered from the point of view of international law or from the point of view of domestic law. H. Mosler chooses to adopt the point of view of the courts. After a general presentation of the rela…

Lagrange, Evelyne Keywords: Persons | Individuals | International law and domestic law | Unification of law | Monism and dualism | Norms | Legitimacy | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Today, there is a question of the relationship between the different domestic laws that would make their mark on the international standards of harmonization, or unification of law, applicable to the relations between public authorities and private individuals. In this course, Evelyne Lagrange discusses the extent of the self-determination and self-orga…

Sperduti, Giuseppe Keywords: Sovereignty | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Souveraineté | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT Giuseppe Sperduti, Professor at the University of Rome, begins his course on the principle of sovereignty and the relations between international laws and national laws by studying the doctrinal dispute between dualism and monism. He then examines the order of execution of treaties, and the relations between community law and internal legal order. He later focuses …

Arangio-Ruiz, Gaetano Keywords: United Nations | Judicial competence | International law and domestic law | League of Nations | Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Nations Unies | Droit international et droit interne | Société des Nations | Compétence étatique | ABSTRACT General Course on Public International Law by Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, Professor at the University of Rome, focuses on the notion of domestic jurisdiction as a limit to the activity of international legal and political bodies. However, it also t…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Choice of law | Unification of law | Law of contracts | Model law | Legal principles | Conventions | Directives | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving …

Buergenthal, Thomas Keywords: Treaties | Direct effect | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: Traités | Applicabilité directe | Droit international et droit interne | ABSTRACT In this course, the author focuses on the international law aspect of the concept of self-executing treaties. He does so by analyzing the international law rules that determine what obligations States have to implement treaties on the domestic plane and the extent to which States are required to allow individuals to invoke the specific pr…