Bentwich, Norman Keywords: League of Nations | Mandate | Trusteeship | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Mandats | Régime de tutelle | ABSTRACT The course of Norman Bentwich deals with developments and problems in the warrant system as it emerged in 1929. The author explains in detail the system of government of the countries under mandate, especially in the territories under mandate detached from the former Ottoman Empire, of which he has a rather prolonged experience. The author successively presents the origin and h…

Diena, Giulio Keywords: League of Nations | Mandate | Mots clefs: Société des Nations | Mandats | ABSTRACT Giulio Diena presents, in the introduction to the course, international mandates as an institution whose main purpose is to contribute to the well-being and development of people who are not yet able to govern themselves, and who live in territories which, following the (First) World War, ceases to be subjected to the sovereignty of the previously governed States. The author successively studies the system a…

Cardahi, Choucri Keywords: France | Lebanon | Mandate | Syria | Mots clefs: France | Liban | Mandats | Syrie | ABSTRACT After an introduction dedicated to the particularities of the country and the environment that the mandate should govern, Choucri Cardahi studies the mandate from the standpoint of public international law and, in this frame, studies the obligations imposed on the Lebanese-Syrian representative, on international relationships, and on the responsibility of mandatory power. In the second part, the aut…

Feinberg, Nathan Keywords: Permanent Court of International Justice | Mandate | Trusteeship | Minorities | Mots clefs: Cour permanente de Justice internationale | Mandats | Régime de tutelle | Minorités | ABSTRACT The system of mandates and the system of minorities have this common feature, notes Nathan Feinberg, that they both tend to ensure better living conditions as well as certain rights and liberties to non-state authorities, authorities who in default are of a special legal guarantee related to their existence, would fi…